Our guest this week is Todd Bellomy, the owner and brewer of Farthest Star Sake in Massachusetts. Todd joined us in Episode #36 to discuss his previous brewery Dovetail Sake in 2016. His success at Dovetail Sake led him to the opening of his new brewery Farthest Star Sake in 2022.
Home to more than 200 operating breweries, Massachusetts is a playground for beer drinkers. But sake breweries? There aren’t any in the state at least, not yet.
In October, the commonwealth will gain its only sake brewery and one of roughly 20 in the United States when Farthest Star Sake makes its long-awaited debut at 120 N. Meadows Road in Medfield.
Owner Todd Bellomy has a long history with sake. After spending eight years working for Boston Beer Company and delving deeper into his own home brewing practice, he missed the sake that he’d enjoyed when he lived in Japan.
“Back then, it was a little bit harder to find than it is today, although it’s still pretty hard to find good, fresh sake,” Bellomy said. “So my wife kind of laughed and just said: ‘We’re drinking your beers. Why don’t you just make sake?’”