Brooklyn Kura Lake Effect Nigori

Profile & Story

Brooklyn Kura brews sake in Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, describing its work as building a new tradition of American craft sake from rice, water, yeast, and koji; in 2021 the brewery partnered with Hakkaisan, one of Niigata's most respected sake producers. Lake Effect is a junmai nigori made by fermenting and pressing a traditional junmai sake, then blending in amazake made from warmed rice, koji, and water; its name references the lake-effect snow created when cold air moves over the relatively warm waters of a lake, an allusion to the sake's snowy, cloudy character.