Kiuchi Brewery thriving months after Japan tsunami
Approximately six months ago today, a devastating earthquake and tsunami tore through part of Japan. I wrote up a summary of the impact on breweries at the time. This week, Draft Magazine catches up with Kiuchi Brewery to see how its recovery from the disaster.
When the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami rocked the Japanese island of Honshu on March 11, not many people were thinking about beer. Toshiyuki Kiuchi didn’t have a choice. His eponymous brewery in Naka city, which produces sake along with the Hitachino Nest brand of beers, is located roughly 9.3 miles (15 km) from the Pacific Ocean and less than 100 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. And as (bad) luck would have it, Kiuchi had just begun construction work to expand brewing capacity.
Breweries: Kiuchi Brewery
