On the other hand, the overall concept of sake brewers was to brew and sell sake and, the scale was most often not large however, at some stage the brewers began to work alone and apart from the centers of large towns, they also became numerous in rural towns and mountain villages.
いっぽう造り酒屋は、純粋に酒を造りそれを売っていた所という概念で、規模も必ずしも大きくなく、ときには蔵人が一人で営んでいて、場所も都市の中だけでなく農村部や山間部にも多かった。