Nova Brewing Co.

Nova Brewing Co. is a family-owned hybrid craft saké & beer brewery based in Covina, California. The founders James Jin and Emiko Tanabe realized the historical Japanese alcoholic beverage called saké is underappreciated, misunderstood, and underrepresented here in Los Angeles where there's plenty of beer breweries and wineries. With the booming appreciation for Asian culture and cuisine, they felt the need for a local saké brewery where L.A. locals can come and see, smell, and taste rice being fermented to produce freshly made saké. After apprenticeship in Japan, they took over an old beer brewery in 2019 and turned it into a saké brewery. Because the facility came with beer brewing equipments, they decided to continue brewing beer, but decided to brew beers that is representative of their identity and make unique beers made with sake yeast or Asian fruits, teas and spices. We take pride in the effort and the time we put into creating our own original sake brewing equipment and techniques combined with our training of traditional brewing methods learned in Japan to create our own unique style of saké and beer.

Even though we got trained in Japan, we tried our best to create our own unique style of sake different from Nihonshu, so we hope that you taste our sake and think that it is very different from Japanese sake.