Sake has a rich history complete with dragons and gods in ancient Japan. Today, the rice wine is still sacred and has UNESCO recognition for its intangible cultural heritage. Explore the rice wine in ...

Sake has been around for a long time, like really long. And there are some interesting fermentation techniques that helped ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in ...

If you're planning on ordering sake in Japan, there are a few essential etiquette tips and customs you need to follow as part of the drinking culture.

A Japanese sake brewer has taken to burying bottles of the alcohol in the snow for a couple of months, saying it produces a milder, smoother taste. The Rokkasen Brewery in northeastern Japan's ...

And what comes with it naturally is Japanese sake. Sake exports hit the highest level in history in 2022 and the U.S. was the biggest importer by volume and the second biggest by value after China.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...

Kato last year installed dedicated equipment to pour more energy into preparing ... “I want to make more consumers try Japanese sake via avant-garde brewing approaches,” he said.

If you like Japanese food, you may enjoy Japanese sake as well. But many of us drink sake only with Japanese food. The world is changing, though: non-Japanese restaurants now have sake on their ...

Head over to Ueno Park in January to warm up with a popular Japanese winter soul food ... 19 vendors from across the country will be pouring their best local sake, craft beer, homemade sangria ...