Blue Kudzu Sake finds home on Depot Street in Asheville’s River Arts District

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Blue Kudzu Sake makes the announcement on FB:

We have the keys! Blue Kudzu Sake Co, coming to 372 Depot St, Asheville! Unit 50!

Last year, Blue Kudzu launched a couple of unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns, but that hasn’t stopped the crew – Mitch Ford, Cat Ford-Coates and Mary Taylor – from moving ahead with their plans to open a sake brewery in town.

More background about the effort from their Kickstarter:

Over the past year through all of our small craft batches and during all of our research and experimentation, we learned that 3 mirco-sake breweries have opened in the United States and are creating small batch craft sake, with very warm reception. We wish to add our name to the small, but growing, craft sake scene in the United States. In an effort to try to start our brewery we enrolled in a local business incubator class at Mountain Biz Works, and developed a working business plan. With their encouragement, we have done extensive market research, as well held customer test sessions. We discovered that our business model is sound and plausible. Eureka! We have a realistic and profitable business plan! Mountain Biz works showed us that we could feasibly start our own kura (sake brewery). To ensure our success we will continue to work with Mountain Bizworks through their mentoring and coaching programs as we expand from home brewing into commercial brewing of American craft sake.

Blue Kudzu on Facebook.