The Munich Japanese Sake New Year - Beyond Sake
1月04日(日)
|Monaco Ramen
Join us to celebrate the new year with great food by Monaco Ramen, delicious sake by Agedsake.de, and storytelling & photography by a Japan-based writer/photographer and sake professional Cindy Bissig, as she brings her long-term project 'Beyond Sake' to Munich for this special event!
Time & Location
2026年1月04日 14:00 – 19:00
Monaco Ramen, Pestalozzistraße 9, 80469 München, Germany
About the event
“Beyond Sake”
Beyond Sake is a long-term photographic project by Japan-based sake professional and writer-photographer Cindy Bissig, documenting craft communities through an intimate focus on sake breweries and the people who sustain them.
The work centers on the collective life behind the drink: kurabito at work, the shared rhythm of the brewery, and the quiet transmission of knowledge across generations. Tradition appears not as nostalgia, but as a living practice - shaped by repetition, experience, and adaptation. Within this space, change naturally unfolds: new generations entering the kura, women taking active roles, and emerging expressions such as craft sake and doburoku redefining what nihonshu can be.
Here, nihonshu is revealed as more than a beverage - it is an environment, a discipline, and a shared responsibility. The images offer a portrait of continuity and dedication, grounded in daily labor and human presence, and shaped by the people who carry…