It is well known that the yeast loses its superior quality as well as sporulation ability, when its pure culture is transplanted or its specimen is stored for many years. The Society of Brewing, Japan, established in the Governmental Brewing Experimental Station, has distributed a large number of superior pure yeast cultures for use in brewing sake since 1906. The most excellent and most widely distributed sake yeast, No. 6 of this Society,
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