The Kobo Chronicles: LED Yume Yeast

About this episode

This episode explores the innovative use of LED YUME sake yeast developed in Tokushima Prefecture and its impact on local brewing.

Episode 180. In this episode, we again shine a light on the role of Sake Yeast in our series known as the Kobo Chronicles. “Irradiation” and “mutant” are not typical words you’d find in sake marketing, but Tokushima Prefecture makes it work in promoting their “LED YUME” sake yeast. By exposing yeast to blue LED lights, they’ve created new strains of sake yeast for use specifically by Tokushima Prefecture breweries. The brewers at Narutotai have taken this yeast and made a sake that give us sw...

People in this episode

Hosts: Timothy Sullivan, John Puma

Topics covered

• sake yeast
• Kobo Chronicles
• LED YUME
• brewing
• Tokushima Prefecture

Keywords

• sake
• yeast
• brewing
• Tokushima
• LED lights
• Kobo Chronicles
• Narutotai

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tokushima Prefecture, Narutotai

Products: LED YUME

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