The Birth of Sake
The film takes us inside the Yoshida Brewery, a 144-year-old family-owned establishment.
The Birth of Sake POV

Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six months in nearly monastic isolation as they follow an age-old process to create sake, the nation's revered rice wine.
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