Sake brewed in Brooklyn

Industry City in Brooklyn is now home to New York's first sake brewery. Brooklyn Kura is the brainchild of Brooklyn native Brian Polen and Brandon Doughan of Portland, Oregon, who met at a mutual friend's wedding in Japan five years ago. The two men took the sake knowledge they learned in Japan and started home brewing. A few weeks ago, the doors opened at Brooklyn Kura where they produce a high-grade sake called ginjo. It is made of four ingredients: rice, water, yeast, and koji, which is rice inoculated with a special and safe mold.