Homegrown Shoyu Co.

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Homegrown Shoyu Co.

Small-batch, hand crafted + naturally fermented. Our shoyu is made in barrel with organic ingredients

23/10/2025

We’re proud to have our shoyu stocked on the shelves at many wonderful grocers, cafes, bottle shops and speciality stores. Spied here at the truly excellent on the Mornington Peninsula (alongside another of our favourite producers ).

13/10/2025

Getting our pickle on with some stunning mustard greens from in preparation for gathering at in a few weeks time!

01/08/2025

Umami Party is here! We’ve been working on this one for quite a while and are very excited to finally have it bottled and ready for you! We’ve taken our base shoyu with biodynamic soy and heritage wheat, and then added wakame, tomato and mushroom direct to the ferment. It’s got loads of umami, but also a nice acidity. Perfect for dipping dumplings, boosting broths or dressing veggies. Looking forward to seeing how people use this one, the possibilities are endless!

21/07/2025

Stirring day at Homegrown HQ. These barrels of moromi are at various stages - from freshly made to 6 months or so old. The older ones are developing real complexity as they ferment, helped along by regular stirring. It smells amazing in here!

07/07/2025

It’s been a while between posts (again) so I thought it was high time for a proper introduction. This is me, Oliver. Chef, father, and fermentation enthusiast. I’ve long played with different ferments but it’s Koji that has me enamoured. During Covid lockdowns, while restaurants were shut, I had the opportunity to play, learn, and brew my first large batches of Japanese-style soy sauce - shoyu. That’s the ‘Homegrown’ in Homegrown Shoyu. It’s a project that literally started in my spare room, before taking over the backyard and shed. Late last year I took the leap and got a commercial kitchen space in Castlemaine, where I live with my wife and two daughters. It’s in this new space that I hope to expand Homegrown Shoyu, squeezing this project in between working full time as a chef and raising two wonderful kiddos (both of whom love to ‘help’ whenever they can!). I’m standing in this space now amidst the barrels, pallets of bottles and bags of soy and wheat. There are lots of ferments going that I’m really excited to tend, taste, and share with you when they’re ready. Thanks for following along!

21/02/2025

Warm days, cold noodles. We’re enjoying the last days of summer and knocking up Sichuan-style noodles with shredded chicken, cucumber, peanut and mushroom shoyu. Call it ‘kinda-biangbiang’? Yum anyway.
We’ve been busy brewing shoyu and the online store will be restocked soon! Thanks for your patience folks.

16/01/2025

Happy New Year! We’ve been a bit quiet here on Insta but there’s been lots happening in the background for Homegrown Shoyu. 2025 is shaping up to be a big year - new premises, new products, new stockists and lots of other fun things to share. The online store will be restocked shortly and I can’t wait to show everyone some of the things we’ve been working on. In the meantime a little teaser.. these Umami Party people were drawn for us by the wonderful .basa to adorn a new sauce coming your way soon!

11/11/2024

Expanding the collection… we’re slowly acquiring some more new (to us at least) ex-wine barrels to brew Shoyu in. Thanks for passing them on. Excited to fill these up over the coming months!

23/10/2024

We made the most of the sun yesterday and had this cheeky poke bowl situation for lunch with spring veg picked fresh from the garden, tuna dressed in wakame shoyu and a heap of pickles rescued from the back of the fridge. This dressing is super easy to make and delicious on just about anything - particularly raw fish or spring vegetables. 🌱

18/10/2024

Our barrel-aged shoyu is becoming more active as the weather warms up. Here I’m giving it a good stir to help it develop. Over the course of the next year the whole soy beans you can see here will slowly dissolve, with their proteins breaking down into delicious umami-rich amino acids. There’s a while to wait, but even now it smells amazing!

Address

410 White Hill Road
Dromana, VIC
3936

Website

http://homegrownshoyu.com/

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