On the fourth day of Mr. Ichikawa, a letter from the warehouse arrived again.
Customers, patrons of INATAYA NIHONBASHI store,
Food Ichikawa, I'm working hard!

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Letter from Kuramoto Inada Main Store
Thursday, January 18 14:50

Mr. Ichikawa's fourth day, this morning also starts with steamed rice.

Today's steamed rice is for Junmai Ginjo “Inatahime Powerful”.
Carry steamed rice dug from the kiln in a wooden pail.



Yesterday, after letting it cool, I was working on koji making with Mori Nobugi in the koji room.
Today is Motoya※Of Yamamoto and Sake gave a charge of mother.
Motoya:Sake brewers that has been entrusted with the beginning important role the mother building. Moto writes "漢 (Torimoto)" with one kanji character.


Sake charged mother temperature management is very important.
At the stage where steamed rice, koji rice, and water are mixed
Calculate and prepare so that the product temperature will be 19 degrees.

This will be lowered to 6 degrees tomorrow,
Thereafter, heating (alcohol fermentation) and cooling (saccharification) are repeated every other day.
Sake we will grow the mother.




After that, we washed rice.


If each timing is shifted, the water absorption rate will vary,
Everyone works together while watching the clock.


In the afternoon, squeezed Sake gave a bag stuffed with cake.


The peeling and weighing of the cake is hard work.
At the end, I got a good smile photo.
The number written in chalk on the tank is the weight per box.


Later, in the break room, the work schedule was seriously confirmed.
Ichikawa's training is already in the middle.
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There was a good article to introduce about Mr. Yamamoto, the creator in the letter!
From the "Iku'S-" website of Kuramoto Inada Main Store ... Ikusu-IKU'S- "Kurato Roundtable"
Since it was created in 2015, it is almost three years ago
You will see not only the brewers, but also the faces and personalities of the brewers.

"Loving Sake-building."

Also new this year Sake I look forward to.
※ INATAYA In than March "New this year Sake Oibara of breweries carefully selected as a distribution Board"Sake new Sake is selling scheduled.
　

　

Mr. Ichikawa's struggle-continued-