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“We’re not trying to pretend that we’re making traditional Japanese sake,” Brandon Doughan, the co-founder of Brooklyn Kura, the first sake brewery in New York, told me on a recent Friday morning, as ...

HYDE PARK, N.Y. — The Dassai Blue Sake Brewery occupies a massive 55,000-square-foot space in the town. It was the site of a former grocery store. Located at 5 St. Andrews Road, the brewery is an ...