Wakatakeya

Wakatakeya Shuzojo was established in 1699 in Tanushimaru, Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, making it one of the oldest breweries in the Chikugo region. The brewery's guiding philosophy, inscribed as a house precept, holds that the business was not inherited from ancestors but borrowed from future generations, embedding sustainability into every decision. Water drawn from the same Mimino mountain-range well used since founding, filtered over 80 years through the earth, underpins a range that emphasizes hand-crafted production steps where human judgment surpasses machinery.