Sake specs
- Prefecture
- Niigata (新潟)
- Rice type
- Gohyakumangoku (五百万石)
- Polishing rate (semaibuai)
- 60%
- Alcohol content
- 15.5%
- SMV
- +5.0
- Acidity
- 1.0
- Amino acid level
- 1.0
Hakkaisan Seishu (清酒 八海山) is made of Gohuyakumangoku and Koshiibuki rice varieties that are milled down to 60%. Classified as seishu (清酒, regular sake, also called futsushu) it is Hakkaisan's "entry-level sake", junior to the brewery's Tokubetsu Honjozo and produced under the motto いい酒をより多くの人に ("quality sake to as many people as possible"). It is made slowly and carefully through low-temperature fermentation and has a light, refreshing taste that can be paired with any type of food.
About the brewery
- Brewery
- Hakkaisan Sake Brewery
- Name in Japanese
- 八海醸造株式会社
- Address
- Nagamori 1051, Minami Uonuma City, Niigata
- Phone
- 025–775-3121
- Website
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Hakkaisan Brewery is located in Minami-Uonuma, Niigata, one of the premier and most famous sake brewing regions in all of Japan, and was founded in 1922. The brewery derives its name from Mount Hakkai (八海山), a sacred mountain that is part of the Echigo Sanzan (越後三山) mountain range, the spring of the clear waters of the Haikkaisan river system. Hakkaisan represents local sake tradition in Niigata and produces sake, shochu, plum brandy, beer (Rydeen Beer), whisky and mirin (cooking sake). In 2013, Timothy Sullivan, the founder of Urban Sake, was appointed brand ambassador of Hakkaisan.
