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Ambassador of Japan Tours and Tastes at North American Sake Brewery

CHARLOTTESVILLE (September 28, 2021) – The Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Koji Tomita, visited and met the staff of North American Sake Brewery (NAS) for a tour of their brewery and...
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NAS Interviewed on Sake Revolution! Podcast

Listen here: https://sakerevolution.com/?fbclid=IwAR00ZzZxPbA9hTKvEQGNHAoN4b4e-jsZ3D2J2djgVpEG8uWa4HS9ZWXB9xw Season 1. Episode 45. Another in our series of U.S. Sake Brewer interviews takes us to Virginia to talk to Andrew Centofante, Toji and Master Brewer of...
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NAS Head Brewer featured on Japan Eats! Podcast

Our toji, Andrew Centofante, was recently interviewed on the Japan Eats podcast with Akiko Katayama! Take a listen as they talked about his background, how he got into sake, and...
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NAS Awarded Two Medals at 2020 World Sake Challenge 🍶

We are pleased to announce that North American Sake Brewery has won two awards at the 2020 World Sake Challenge! Our premium junmai sake Real Magic has won a Silver...
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North American Sake Brewery Creates Winter Village with Private Tents

By Riley Wyant| December 24, 2020 at 10:17 PM EST - Updated December 24 at 10:17 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - One sake brewery in Charlottesville is finding a creative solution to...
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Eduardo Dingler, Wine to Sake: The American sake scene

Napa Valley Register - EDUARDO DINGLER 10/02/2020 There is no doubt the American sake landscape has come a long way in the last few decades. Sake production has gained popularity...
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Slushies!!!!

WE GOT SLUSHIES!!!! This summer just got a whole lot cooler. We are excited to bring you outrageously delicious sake-slushies. We will be pouring these ice-cold concoctions all summer long...
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The Challenges Of Making Sake Outside Of Japan (Part 1 & 2)

Making sake ain't easy! Awesome to be featured in these articles in Yamato Magazine about the sake breweries that are popping up around the world and some of the challenges...
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Sanitizer Collab With Spirit Lab Distilling

We were so excited to collaborate on such a meaningful and needed effort! Spirit Lab Distilling makes awesome whiskey and spirits and now sanitizer!!! Repost from @spiritlabdistilling "We were able...
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We Are Open for Patio Seating!

Come visit the best patio in Charlottesville! North American Sake Brewery is excited to announce that it is opening its patio up for weekends, serving great food, drink, and social...
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An Announcement Concerning COVID-19 from NAS

Hey Charlottesville, We have made the decision that we will be temporarily closing the tasting room and restaurant until the threat of the corona virus has passed. We see this...
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A Big Kanpai from the Ambassador of Japan!

This past November we were invited to pour our sake at the Japan American Society of Washington D.C. (JASWDC) Annual Dinner. The JASWDC is an organization that is was founded...
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Find Us in Stores All Over Virginia

NORTH AMERICAN SAKE BREWERY NOW IN TOTAL WINE STORES The Commonwealth’s First Sake Maker is one of the First American Sake Producers to Distribute to the Retailer CHARLOTTESVILLE (September 18,...
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Virginia’s first craft sake brewery is a mix of ancient tradition and good old-fashioned fun

by Matthew Korfhage VA Growler In IX Art Park, a self-consciously hip enclave in Charlottesville with a wee end farmer’s market and more wall art than a New York subway, young...
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Pouring Sake at the Embassy

By Jeremy Goldstein This past Monday night was another "first" for us. Andrew and I traveled to D.C. on an invitation from the Embassy of Japan. It was a night...
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Brewing Sake at Daimon Shuzo in Japan

By: Andrew Centofante “If you can find a flight in the next three weeks, we would love to host you.” This was part of a conversation with Marcus Consolini, CEO...
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Now Open Tuesdays + $1 Dumplings

We are now open every Tuesday @ 5pm - 10pm, and to make it even sweeter we are doing dumplings and wontons for only a buck. Unlimited dumplings and wontons...
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10 hot* new restaurants: A diverse collection of upstarts drives a local dining boom

by Simon Davidson5/06/19 at 11:10 AM “Happier cows make better meat” is just one of the motto-ish lines you’ll find on the website for Albemarle’s Sherwood Farms, where Prime 109...
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JAPAN TIMES: American-based breweries are creating their own brand of sake

MAY 4, 2019 BY KO HIRANO,KYODO CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - With the growing demand for sake in the United States, American craft brewers are also getting in on the act — and giving...
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Distinction Magazine: Sake Brewery Comes to the Virginia Mountains

by Matthew Korfhage Distinction Apr 19, 2019 In IX Art Park, a self-consciously hip enclave in Charlottesville with a weekend farmer’s market and more wall art than a New York subway,...
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North American Sake Brewery Now Distributing in Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – North American Sake Brewery (NAS) is distributing bottled sake throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. North American Sake Brewery, launched in September 2018, is Virginia’s first and only producer...
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For God’s Sake, Why Sake?

Undoubtedly, the question I receive the most about my business is some form of “How in the heck did you get into sake?” It’s a fair question. For the past...
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The Sake Guys Go To Washington

By Jeremy Goldstein Andrew and I were invited by the Embassy of Japan to attend a private sake tasting at The Smithsonian in D.C. That sentence is pretty surreal to...
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KYODO NEWS: Craft sake takes experimental turn in U.S. as popularity grows

By Ko Hirano, KYODO NEWS - Jan 26, 2019 - 09:41 With growing demand for sake in the United States, evidenced by a near doubling of Japan's sake exports to the country...
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VIRGINIA LIVING: Virginia Gets Its First Sake Brewery

And a lesson in Japanese alcohol. Room temperature, in a shot glass, at a sushi bar. That’s the way most Americans have experienced sake, a Japanese alcohol made from fermented...
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SAVOR VIRGINIA: Virginia’s First Sake Brewery Opens in Charlottesville

Virginia pioneered much of North America’s wine and beer industry, and now, thanks to the unique craftmanship of Andrew Centofante and Jeremy Goldstein, the Commonwealth is a national leader in...
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UVA DARDEN CGI: International Partner Program Highlights Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Charlottesville and D.C.

By Lauren Wallace- 10 October 2018 Nearly fifty Executive MBA students from Latin America visited Charlottesville and D.C. for an international partner program with Darden’s Center for Global Initiatives. The students, from PAD School of...
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C-VILLE WEEKLY: Sake to me: Falling in love with rice wine

For North American Sake Brewery co-owner Jeremy Goldstein, it wasn’t a trip to Japan but a visit back home to California that inspired his new venture. “I’d never had ‘craft’ sake, but I went...
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DAILY PROGRESS: First Virginia sake brewery, North American Sake Brewery, opens in Charlottesville

In Charlottesville, it seems the only thing trendier than the tech startup scene is the craft-brew startup scene. Film writer Jeremy Goldstein and his pal, Andrew Centofante, have given up their...
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CBS19: Virginia’s first sake brewery coming soon to Charlottesville

(Video in Link) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Virginia's first producer of sake is coming to the IX Art Park in downtown Charlottesville this summer. The North American Sake Brewery will...
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