Handmade soy sauce

~High quality and Organic production by hand made ~ Absolutely no additives

Soy sauce collection

  • Handmade soy sauce
    360ml / 720ml
  • Yuasa Tamari (Brewing Soy Sauce)
    0.3l / 0.9l / 1.8l

Yuasa Tamari (Brewing Soy Sauce)

This is made at Yuasa,which is the birthplace of soy sauce.
It has been succeeded to a tradition of the brewing just as it used to be.
It made from natural soy beans , wheat and solt, which are all domestic ingredients.
After being carefully aged for over 1-3 years, it is slowly heated for half a day in cauldron over a wood fire of red pine. This is full-bodied,manually brewed.

■Storage,expiration date/ Store in a frige after opning a bottle.
It contains no preservations. Please use up within 2 years.
■Uses/It can be applied directly to "Tofu" or "Sashimi", especially fatty red fish such as tuna, amberjack, yellowtail.
It can be also used for "Teriyaki-steak", as flavouring meat.
In all kinds of cooking,including simmered dishes, you can find the excellece of aroma and taste.

  • Nigori Bishio
    180ml
  • Nigori Bishio
    720ml

Nigori Bishio (Raw Soy Sauce )

They are inherited to produce raw soy sauce in a large vat made in a wooden, Yoshino ceder,warehouse built in 1841.
This aromatic, full bodied raw soy sauce is made from only the finest domestic ingredients and carefully aged over 2 years before the pure upper portion of the brew is skimmed and bottled.

■Storage,expiration date/ Store in a frige after
opning a bottle. It contains no preservations.
Please use up within 1 year.
■Uses/ It can be applied directly "Tofu" or "Sashimi",especially white fish such as sea bream or sole
and can also be brushed or dripping on steaks while grilling. Soaking meat into soy sauce for seasoning
makes meat much soft and rich. Especially, it is not until this soy sauce is used in boiling fish that you can recognize the
how rich aroma it is and shinining color it has.

Soy Sauce Production Process

Soy Sauce Production Process

Raw materials processing

Soybean

  1. Wash them enough and soak in water to let the water get absorbed.
  2. Steamed at high pressure with a pressure cooker for a short time.

Soybean

Wheat

  1. The roasted the raw wheat , divided into two , and break into three splits.

Making rice molt -using a tool called "Moro-Futa"

  1. Steamed soy beans and roasted wheat are mixed with a yeast called koji‐mold and put in a chamber for 4 days,where the koji-mold multiplies.

Making rice molt

Production

  1. The mixture with the newly-formed koji-molt is blended with salt water and put in large barrels made of Yoshino Ceder.

Production view

Production

Fermentation

  1. The mixture is stirred repeatedly over a period of at least 1to 1and half years and aged until it becomes a soy mash.
    It is at this stage that the flavor, aroma and color of the soy sauce are being developed.

Fermentation

Pressing

  1. The soy mash is spread on cloths and carefully stacked in a press. The pressed liquid is called "nama-age",undercooked raw soy sauce.

Heating

  1. After the nama-age has been clarified, it is sterilized by heating for half a day in a wooden cauldron over a fire of red pine.
    Thanks to this sterilization method, discovred during the Edo era before the advent of preservatives, soy sauce was popularized as a seasoning with a long shelf life.

Heating view

Bottling and shipping

In principle,The processing of raw materials, starting from the time of the cold months.
Until we delivery this soy sauce,it takes a year and a half through the fermentation and aging.
the taste, the aroma, and the color that soy sauce originally should have are created because of 2reasons.

1 Careful selection of raw materials
2 kobo-kin that inhabits in the storehouse in developing lovely soy sauce.