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Ontario Spring Water Sake Company – Canada’s third Sake Brewery!

Ontario Spring Water Sake Company – Canada’s third Sake Brewery!

As of April 29th 2011, the retail doors of the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company have swung open bringing a third Sake Brewery to Canada. The first The Artisan Sake Maker and second Nipro Brewery Co., Ltd. are both in the Vancouver, BC1 area while Spring Water is in Toronto, Ontario.

Note: Nipro has transformed into YK3 Sake Producer.

For Ken Valvur, the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company is his second business with his first being Bento Nouveau, a sushi business. He has been very successful with Bento Nouveau and it appears that he is going all out with Spring Water as well. For example, he has consulted with Miyasaka Brewing Co., Ltd. in the development of the new brewery, his general manager is steeped in the sake business from working with Gekkeikan and training from Gekkeikan and Miyasaka. Ken has also employed a lady toji, a member of the Saku Toji Kai guild as consulting master brewer. In addition Spring Water is the first Canadian member of the Brewing Society of Japan.

The new brewery will have around 2000 square feet for brewery, retail outlet and tasting room. To start they will make and serve only Junmaishu – Pure Rice Sake – but will eventually experiment with higher milling rates for finer quality sake.

Welcome Ontario Spring Water Sake Company.

  1. I have documented the other non-Japan, non-US sake brewers here. ↵

Sake Brewers outside the US and Japan (Part 2 – Sake Breweries)

Sake Brewers outside the US and Japan (Part 2 – Sake Breweries)

Having looked at the sake breweries in the US (Part 1) it’s time to move on to those sake breweries outside of both the US and Japan. There are sake breweries in Canada, Norway, Australia, South America and I believe Southeast Asia, China and Korea. However, I don’t have the details on all of these. In fact, I have lost the information I had on those sake breweries in South America (three of them I think) and have not had any solid info on the breweries in Southeast Asia, China and Korea. So, while I would like this to be complete, it won’t be. If you can add to the list below, please do!

Canada has two small sake breweries in Vancouver BC. They are: the Artisan Sake Maker with a site on Granville Island and Nipro Brewery Co., Ltd. in Richmond, BC. Continue reading “Sake Brewers outside the US and Japan (Part 2 – Sake Breweries)”