How to say "brewer" in Japanese

• 蔵元くらもとCommon
  nounCovers 'brewer' as a maker: a sake or soy brewery, or the brewing house behind it. This is the word when 'brewer' means the producer rather than a shop that sells drink.
• 酒屋さかやCommon
  nounReally a sake dealer or liquor-store owner — someone who sells drink, not makes it. Its 'brewer' sense is marginal, so for an actual brewer 蔵元 is the word you want.

For 'brewer' in the sense of a sake or soy producer, use 蔵元; 酒屋 is really a sake dealer or liquor-store owner, and only marginally means a brewer.

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• 蔵元くらもとbrewery (sake, soy)
• 酒造家しゅぞうかbrewer
• 醸造家じょうぞうかbrewer
• 酒屋さかやsake dealer