At Zenkoku Shinshu Kanpyokai (National New Sake Appraising and Deliberating Fair) held in the brewing year 1990, on which occasion Akita Prefecture sent sake using the yeast, the prefecture won the second largest number of gold prizes in the nation.
これを使用した平成2醸造年度の全国新酒鑑評会では秋田県の金賞受賞数が全国2位となった。