55 Generations of Sake: One Family's Sacred Art
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2016
- For more than 850 years, the Sudo family has been making sake in Obara, Japan. Their sake distillery is the oldest in the country. After the 2011 earthquake and nuclear meltdown, they feared the water in their ancient wells had been poisoned and they would have to close. Luckily, the water was deemed safe and today they carry on their time-honored tradition.
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wish this was longer. I'd like to know more about the family, the sake, what traditions they still follow. how brewing had changed in 700 years...
nope. 2 minutes.
SAME.
+swapsplat Agree. I'd love to see more of the amazing looking property. Just beautiful.
Theres an incredible documentary on Netflix called The Birth Of Sake that dives deep into the history and culture of sake, you should check that out.
swapsplat Unfortunately, the majority of content on UA-cam is on the shorter side because generally people are turned off by longer videos. While you and I would enjoy an hour-plus-long documentary on this 700+ year old sake brewery, but I think that most wouldn't.
Justice J. Srisuk even then I think two minutes is almost feels disrespectful to the subject being covered.
talk about a legacy that is longer than some countries their whole history!
NA OMEGALUL
Awesome. 900 yr old trees and quality sake made for almost a millennia. I'd like to visit one day.
you guys should do a story on Billy, the 6th generation meth maker from Kansas
Mr3344555 haha
Mr3344555 Hahahahaha you sir made my day
Murica
55th generation. You win.
55!!! Mad respect for this art form!
+Great Big Story - thanks once again for bringing a story of such impact!
I love the contents you guys are putting out
Amazing story!
Wow, I want to visit, looks beautiful. I love room temp sake or cold sake with a splash of oj
I love Sake. It is the best alcoholic drink I have ever had.
What’s good: Anime, Sushi, Sake, Wasabi. What’s bad: the Nankin Massacre
Thank You Verry Mutch.
Incredible!
GBS and SuperDeluxe (Predicted milestone for UA-cam):1 million end of 2016 start of 2017;2 million/3 million end of 2017;5-10 million for both Turner brands by 2019 start of the 2020s.It already look so the way your guys and your sister brand Super Deluxe (even though they do crazy stuffs) are going.keep it up GBS.
To quote from the above: 'For more than 850 years, the Sudo family has been making sake in Obara, Japan. Their sake distillery is the oldest in the country'
But sake is BREWED not DISTILLED so it should be a sake brewery not distillery!
Sake deez nuts
素敵です〜
Exquisite
Gamma-flavored Sake if that water from the well get contaminated.
55代目ってスゴィ・・・＾＾。
I love it
What an amazing culture
Great video. "millennia" is plural for "millennium" - sorry to rain on your day, but GBS is awesome; you've got to have high standards for yourself!
I'm wondering if their sake tastes better then normal sake
Not enough Where's the doc?
Obara, Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan?
+Dave Vo Obara, Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture.
And I stated making beer at home a year and 2 months ago.
SharkBait19904 close enough.
so, where to buy?
+SunSon29 Google is your friend.
You look too young to buy alcho
now this is the part of japan that fascinates me. not the bizarre tokyo, anime shit.
But the Fukushima is still leaking after 5 years. Hopefully they still check for radiation in ground water supply.
wouldve loved if the article was actually about sake..
drinking sake in wine glass
1:35 what hell is wrong with the train.
Nothing, the point of view of the camera just makes it look like the train is stretching.
+shadowsmith89123 XDDDDD LEL.
+shadowsmith89123 It's advanced Japanese technology, warp trains.
Mauro Tamm LOL. Never knew Japan was THAT advanced.
ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau
Mcree:What drink do you want?
Hanzo:SAKE!!!!
Too short ;)
so is sake like a beer? or...
It's more like strong wine
+Jester Godfield The process is closest to the way beer is made, but really, sake is unique. It's not made quite like anything else.
James McMahon I've been told vodka is made in the same basic process.
IDK I drink pop'n tea mostly
There's a really interesting documentary called the Birth of Sake. You can see some of the process, and it's pretty hardcore. Sake is not distilled, only brewed which I think is like beer, as you said. It's basically fermented rice. You could also chew rice and spit it into a sealed container where it'll ferment, but this is mostly done for Shinto ceremonies I think.
The biggest difference between Sake and Wine or Beer is the fermentation process which is done not only by yeast like wine etc. but also a fungus which converts the rice starch into Glucose for the Yeast to ferment.
Just look up Sudo Family Sake, or other Sake brewers. I drink a sake that has had the same recipe for over 700 years. Plenty of documentaries cover this. Your just dumb if you think this is the one and only video about old-school sake brewing.
Imagine if Japan got colonized just like the rest of East Asia back in the 1700s...
00:22 - "Making sake for almost a millenia?" How about "almost a millennium." Millennia or millenniums would be plural (and grammatically incorrect), but "millenia" is not a thing at all.
Spell check...grammar check...anyone?
Millennia is the correct term.
+da one flieng munkey NO it's NOT. It's plural. These people have been making sake for almost ONE period of 1000 years, and that's a MILLENNIUM. Look it up before you post. I did.
+Wysteria InBloom You might not want to make it quite so obvious what a crass person you are.
+da one flieng munkey It is no longer surprising how many dumb fuck mooncalf morons peck away on their keyboards like random headless chickens, but when you make all those shit-for-brains idiots look like Einstein, well, now, that _is_ impressive. Go back to school or burn your computer, imbecile.
+Wysteria InBloom I don't just _sound_ smart, idiot, and you calling someone a fool is like you calling someone a faggot; your assertion is obviously false unless you're simply talking about yourself. Again, I strongly recommend you destroy your computer and dispose of it in the nearest recycling receptacle. Since you won't ever do that, the next best thing for you to do is splurge on yourself with your favorite treat: bukkake. Go fuck yourself.
The American teenage accent voice over completely ruins the video.
I don't even know what my great grandfather did lol such a rich culture we Americans have..
1st generation dissapointment
i hate that this is called great big story when all it ever is is an intro to a great big story. you are like lazy highschool students writing an essay. you look at the rubric and get as many easy points as possible without actually doing any work.
I wanted to address this because there's such a wealth of information and insight I could share with you behind the explanation for what may seem like this channel being lazy and going for easy youtube points.
A little bit of history and culture; The average youtube length is 7 minutes. This is because people (nowdays) really enjoy small bites of information in a fast paced, engaging format. UA-cam supports exactly that. You are given a title, length, creator, and thumbnail before selecting a link and you can choose among tens of dozens of these (based upon youtube's algorithms and your watch history) and creators must do their best in appealing to you.
This is one of the leading causes of GBS choosing to have a 1-3 minute time goal. Their mission is to "create and distribute micro docs and short films" (found on their channel) in which to "...to discover the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing" important word here is 'discover'. They're not here to tell you the entire great big story, they're here for people to discover these stories. And with their recent 1 million subs, by hell they've done a great job doing that.
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I'm sorry if I seem belittling or pretentious , but I really do want to share that these people are doing amazing work that takes tons of time, energy, money, and the devotion of dozens of people all to create amazing things with a beautiful mission and end goal. They want to share the wonders of our world and that's totally respectable and quite amazing in my opinion. You're entitled to think whatever you want of it and feel however you'd like about it, but I implore you. Of all things you can say about them, please don't call them lazy. If anything these people are, that word is definitely not one of them. I understand that you probably didn't think about any of this, probably just had a feeling and wrote a comment because of it. But that's totally okay! I, as well as shit tons of other people just have small thoughts or feelings about something and need to get it off my chest as well. I totally understand where you're coming from. But it'd be really nice for the people in this industry, the people who do this work on a daily basis, and myself included, if more people could come to the understanding that this; as well as so many other professions, is a shit ton of hard work and devotion to one's own craft. And many things in life shouldn't be belittled because of what the cover of the book, or outside impression may seem like to some people.
Thank you for taking your time to read this, I hope you take this not as a negative experience, but as a learning one. And please have a better day than you have had already. :D
didn't read your comment but gave it a like for your efforts :D
I hate people who keep complaining on a free content
Good thing about Japanese culture? Ummmm, imperialism? Lul