Fukui: Kubota Sake Brewery Guided Tasting

Explore Kubota Sake Brewery with a guided tasting of 10 varieties and insights into flavor design and brewing choices.

Getting started

Arrive at Kubota Sake Brewery in Fukui and check in for your tasting session. After a brief orientation, you move into the tasting space where your guide introduces the Fukukoma brand. Once everyone is settled, the guided format is explained and you begin with your first pour.

What to expect

Kubota Sake Brewery

This experience takes place entirely inside Kubota Sake Brewery, home of the Fukukoma brand. You follow a structured tasting that links what is in your glass to specific brewing decisions, polishing ratios, and fermentation approaches.

Features

• A guided tasting of 10 sake varieties anchors the session, with each pour selected to illustrate a different style, from light to rich and from young to matured expressions. As you taste, you have time to note textures, aromas, and how each style changes on the palate.
• Several bottles are not normally available for retail or standard tastings, so you sample limited offerings that are usually reserved from general sale. This gives you access to sake that regular shop visits would not provide.
• Insight into brewing decisions and flavor design is shared as you go, connecting ingredients, rice polishing ratio, and fermentation choices to the flavor profile in each glass. You hear how small adjustments in production create clear contrasts between the 10 varieties.
• Information on the brewing process and Fukukoma brand history frames the experience, setting context for why Kubota Sake Brewery produces its styles the way it does. You also compare styles, polishing ratios, and fermentation side by side, seeing how technical differences translate directly into what you taste.