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yeah and he's a farmer nah courage got it bro what a show peak dog it's time it's time Sake champs.

Sake champs.

Sake champs.

Alright, so look.

My whole thing was like riding on y'all knowing Scooby-Doo history, but clearly y'all niggas don't know no Scooby-Doo history.

You

got it, gang.

That it makes sense.

So in Sake, for example, the first GI was for a very small subset of breweries in one place.

It was like, okay, only breweries that are connected or they are using the water from this river, for example.

It gets that specific.

A lot of sake.

It was a lot of sake.

to you.

The drink.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was like, is this what you guys call it? A lot of sake.

Sake make you crazy.

Ito Atsushi from the town hall has been supporting Kamibayashi for over three years.

Sake has the power to attract people and draw them here.

Having a sake brewery can be a real asset for this region.

Ito helped out in various ways, searching for available subsidies and connecting Kamibayashi with a carpenter who could restore the brewery.

Welcome back to the Splits and Sake podcast.

I am your host, Justice D. Maxwell.

I'm here with some good brothers right now.

Yeah.

So here you go.

I don't know if you know, but we have this tradition here at Splits and Sake where at the beginning of the episode, especially if you haven't guessed, we have a collective sake toast.

In one of our favorite anime called One Piece, watch One Piece, there's a moment where everybody kind of gets together, like the three, the main characters, like two adopted brothers, like decided that they were going to be brothers and then they had a sake toast and

Let me tell you guys a secret.

But we did do something that was very fun.

We got to go to a place called Islander Sake.

It's the only sake brewery in the state of Hawaii.

Also, it is one of the only sake breweries in the world which is run by a woman.

And it has this really sweet and savory fermented rice kind of creamy flavor to it, which I'd never tasted anything like it.

It was unbelievable.

And they also, at the Islander Sake Place, they make their own ice cream out of the sake kasu.

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