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Takara Sake Brewery, Berkeley
Takara (treasure) Sake is a Kyoto-based company that was founded in 1842, expanded to America, and today is U.S.'s largest Sake producer. Their large brewery in Berkeley was opened in 1982 and features a tasting room as well as Sake Museum. Along with Sake, Takara produces plum wine, Shochu -a distilled spirit, Mirin - a cooking Sake, and a rice Vodka. California is home to four of America's six Sake breweries (four are in the Bay Area) and with good reason, in 2000 it was determined that 60 per cent of the country's Sake consumption takes place in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Kanpai!

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