Product name　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.

Company name

Yūmen Shōyu Co., Ltd.

Zip code

731-3354

Address

269 Ōaza Tsutsuse, Asa-cho, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima City

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Yūmen Shōyu Co., Ltd.（External link）

E-Mail

[email protected]

Tel

+81(0)82-231-1259 (Hiroshima sales office)

Fax

+81(0)82-234-9866 (Hiroshima sales office)