Rocket News 24 – February 19, 2016 – Last year, we cracked open a bottle of beer from Japanese craft brewer Sankt Gallen made with cherry blossom petals. Like many of Japan’s unique food and beverage flavors, it was only available for a limited time, but with spring just around the corner, the Kanagawa Prefecture-based company is bringing back the special brew.
Succinctly called Sankt Gallen Sakura, the five-percent alcohol beer is made with the flowers of leaves of the yaezakura variety of cherry blossom tree, which are also used in a variety of Japanese teas and confectionaries. Each 2,340-liter (618 gallon) batch of the beer is produced with 60 kilograms (132) pounds of sakura assistance grown in Nagano Prefecture.