Farthest Star Sake

Farthest Star Sake is a bar and sake brewery in Medfield, Massachusetts, operating the only sake brewery and taproom in New England. The taproom serves what the brewery makes: fresh sake in production batches and experimental, limited styles, alongside packaged Japanese and other snacks from the bar and a vending machine. Guests may bring their own food when no chef pop-up is scheduled, and the taproom is family-friendly, with non-alcoholic drinks, snacks, and coloring sheets. Single-serve glass bottles, called escape pods, are distributed across Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island. The taproom holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it. The brewery makes its sake from four components: rice, koji, water, and yeast. Its sake-brewing rice is grown in Arkansas and polished to brewing-specific levels before it arrives at the brewery. Koji is grown by hand on 20 to 25 percent of the rice before brewing begins, converting the rice into sugar for fermentation. Farthest Star Sake keeps a private yeast bank with strains from Japan. The brewery sits on North Meadows Road, about 0.1 miles from the road of the same name, with West Street roughly 0.2 miles away and Mill Brook about the same distance. The Bridge Street Conservation Restriction nature preserve is about 0.4 miles from the taproom, the Charles River Natural Valley Storage Area about 0.5 miles, and Dover Road about 0.6 miles. With fewer than 50 sake breweries operating outside Japan, the brewery describes its sake station as being on the frontier of brewing, and it serves as an outpost of sake information, educating visitors about the craft.