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Amaro is an agricultural product!<br>Go to the site of Japan's first amaro 'SCARLET'.<br>

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Amaro is an agricultural product!
Go to the site of Japan's first amaro 'SCARLET'.

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Tatsuya Motonaga of Iseya Brewery, who released Japan's first amaro SCARLET in November 2021, is a former bartender.We interviewed Mr Motonaga, who grows botanicals from scratch in a field near Lake Sagami, Kanagawa, and brews his original amaro!

writer：Drink Planet

左から、福岡の「Bar Cherokee」とのコラボアマーロ、「Aperitivo」、「Cask Marriage」、「Menta Amaro」。

From left to right, Amaro in collaboration with Bar Cherokee, Aperitivo, Cask Marriage and Menta Amaro in Fukuoka, Japan.

Originally a bartender with extensive international experience.

Amaro is really an agricultural product!

Mr Motonaga Tatsuya of Iseya Brewery, the creator of Japan's first amaro, SCARLET, explained in his lively Kansai dialect.

Mr Motonaga is a former bartender born and raised in Osaka.

He has worked at Bar Caol Illa, a malt bar in Shibuya, Tokyo, Bar Ben Fiddich in Shinjuku , Japanese Sake in Taipei, Taiwan, Golden Promise and Whiskey Cat in Beijing, China, among others.

At the same time, he has international experience, having worked as an event bartender in Europe for a time and visited more than 70 breweries in Italy, Scotland and other parts of Europe.

Why did Mr Motonaga, such a skilled bartender, start making amaro?

And what does it mean to say that amaro is a farm product?

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