Our customers range from large industrial breweries to smaller craft-style, artisanal micro-brewers. We utilize our Valley Select Ingredients operations team and specialized state-of-the-art Japanese Sake Milling equipment to mill the highest quality sake rice.
Request Your Sake Ricepure rice sake with 70% polished rice
premium sake with 60% polished rice
super premium sake with 50% polished rice
For decades, California rice varieties have been used by Japanese sake breweries in the United States to produce high quality sake brewed in the US for the US and export markets.
In 2012, Valley Select noticed a need for more high quality sake rice to serve sake breweries here in the US. Valley Select invested in state of the art, Japanese equipment, designed specifically to mill rice for the highest quality, Dia Ginjo sake.
To begin with, we use local California-grown rice and mill to customer specifications. By milling off the outer layers of the rice kernel, we reveal the “Shinpaku” center of the rice, this is where the sugars and starches live. With our specialized equipment we can mill the rice to any polish level desired by the customer. The most popular sake mill is 70% used to brew a Junmai sake. For specialty Junmai Diajingo and Diaginjo, brewers use our 60% and 50% milled rice.