{"id":138313,"date":"2021-01-13T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=138313&lang=en"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:31:51","slug":"sake-brewer-develops-sparkling-sake-and-gin-products","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/sake-brewer-develops-sparkling-sake-and-gin-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Sake Brewer Develops Sparkling Sake and Gin Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yame City-based <\/span>sake<\/span><\/i> brewer, Kitaya Co., Ltd., debuted two new-generation products; <\/span>Kitaya Sparkling Crysta<\/span><\/a>l and <\/span>Kitaya Craft Gin<\/span><\/a>. The brewery with two-hundred years of history created these new liquors for younger generations and international markets. The sparkling <\/span>sake<\/span><\/i>, which undergoes an in-bottle second fermentation, won Gold and Trophy medals at the international IWC awards event. Meanwhile, the gin uses rice-<\/span>shochu<\/span><\/i> production skills flavored with Yame-produced <\/span>gyokuro<\/span><\/i> (fine green tea,) <\/span>ume <\/span><\/i>plums, <\/span>yuzu<\/span><\/i> citrus, and strawberries, too. <\/span>*As of Jan. 13, the company announced the cancelation of its annual <\/span>barrel opening<\/span><\/a> event scheduled for March, 2021 to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. However, \u2018shin-shu\u2019 (new sake) and other limited sake will become available online soon. Source: <\/b>Fukuoka Prefecture<\/a> \/ Kitaya<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Yame City-based sake brewer, Kitaya Co., Ltd., debuted two new-generation products; Kitaya Sparkling Crystal and Kitaya Craft Gin. The brewery with two-hundred years of history created these new liquors for younger generations and international markets. The sparkling sake, which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138313","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-yame","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/138313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}