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For California’s sake makers, Japanese discipline and American ingenuity are the key to success.

Of the three female craft sake brewers in the U.S., two make up the mother-daughter team at Sequoia Sake in San Francisco. Working with California rice farmers, they’re bringing the nearly 2,000-year-old national drink of Japan to more Americans.

For a long time, sake in the U.S. was mostly confined to Japanese restaurants. Now it’s...

Sake is a long-standing brewing tradition in Japan, and West Coast brewers are bringing it to the U.S.

Our guest is Jake Myrick who is the co-owner and toji, or brewmaster, of Sequoia Sake in San Francisco, which was founded in 2015. It is the first local artisanal sake brewery in the city.  In 2019, only 4 years after their first production of sake, the brewery received both the gold and silver awards for best sake produced outside of Japan at the  Tokyo Sake Competition.