■Experience “YASO” as art “Echigo Yakuso Distillery”
Thanks to our customers, “Echigo Yakuso Distillery” will be the first distillery restaurant in Niigata Prefecture, featuring distilling scenery, contemporary art, and even a restaurant bar, thanks to our crowdfunding campaign. It is a space-integrated distillery where visitors can also enjoy the scenery of Joetsu City.
1st floor factory floor (image)
The first floor is the factory floor. Visitors can observe the actual distillation process and experience the aroma of “YASO” at the time of distillation.
2nd floor art gallery floor (image)
The second floor is an open-space, open-air art gallery floor. Art works based on the theme of plants and fermentation will be exhibited for a limited time. Visitors can enjoy the sensibility that can only be created at “Echigo Yakuso Distillery” through the fusion of distillation and art.
3rd floor restaurant bar (image)
The third floor will be a restaurant-bar, offering dishes that make the most of YASO and local ingredients, inviting guests to experience GIN and food pairings and to enjoy the marriage of food and alcohol. In addition, the restaurant’s all-glass interior offers a 360° panoramic view, allowing visitors to enjoy an extraordinary space.
■”Echigo Yakuso Distillery”Project
We are launching a recycling-oriented distillery project that takes into consideration the natural environment.
Echigo Yakuso produces fermented enzyme products with 80 different raw materials, mainly wild plants. The “unique spirits” made from alcohol, a byproduct of the manufacturing process, and the “memorable gin” created by adding botanicals are expressed as art. We would like to make a new product.
However, many of the plants used as raw materials are discarded as residues. Therefore, we plan to establish a garden on the site and use the residues as fertilizer to grow spices and juniper berries, which will be used as raw materials for “YASO”. We are building a cycle that takes into consideration the natural environment.
The key is to build a distillery that enables circulation, eliminating waste and all other losses. Echigo Yakuso aims to build a recycling-oriented distillery that does not produce any waste.
