Shōkon: The Spirit of Soy Sauce

Product description

A richly flavored soy sauce made with yeast from a brewery with over 100 years of experience​​

Founded in 1868 in the mountains along the Ōtagawa River, Yūmen Shōyu Co., Ltd. has maintained its more than 150-year-old production method of using cedar barrels to create kōji (grain rice inoculated with a fermentation culture) and to age soy sauce. 
There are only three ingredients in their soy sauce: soybeans, wheat, and salt. They take pride in their ingredients, using whole soybeans grown in Japan, highly hygroscopic wheat created exclusively for brewing soy sauce, and salt from Gotō-nada in Nagasaki. The water used in the process is natural spring water pumped from a water vein located below a bedrock layer 30 meters below the Ōtagawa River water system. 
A product of unique natural fermentation by a variety of bacteria and fungi, such as the yeast fungi and lactic acid bacteria that live in the brewery and in the wooden barrels for one and a half to two years, and the brewers' many years of experience and expertise. The flavor of the soybeans and the sweetness of the wheat are fully realized, creating a robust flavor and aroma that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world.

・Retail price: [180ml] \250 / [500ml] \550 / [900ml] \880 (each incl. tax)
・Expiration date: 540 days
​・Supply period: Year round
・Major retailers: Yūmen Shōyu stores, major supermarkets in Hiroshima City, EVERY supermarkets, Hiroshima Yume Plaza, Fukuya (in Hiroshima City), Hiroshima Co-op (in selected shops), JA Nōsaikan Yano Tore-tore Ichiba Market, etc.