Sake Tour

Here is an article I wrote for the ferry (not fairy) magazine called Bay Crossings on touring the Takara Sake factory in Oakland. Old-Fashioned American Sake The Bay Area offers several opportunities to sample adult beverages right at the source -- beer at the Anchor Brewery in Potrero Hill and the Speakeasy Brewery near Hunter’s Point, and vodka and other spirits at the Hangar One and St. George Spirits distilleries in Alameda. Though the Takara Sake USA brewery doesn’t produce the small-batch artisan beverages as do those others, a visit to its tasting room is an even rarer treat. Takara is one of only five remaining sake breweries in the United States, down from seven just a few years ago. Read the rest...