A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world’s first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen (US$640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space ...

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Japanese tipples sake and shochu -- and the knowledge and ... For example, near the Pacific Ocean, dry sake is produced to pair with red-meat fish such as tuna and bonito. - How is it consumed?

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly ...

OME, Japan--Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing ...

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 ...

Japanese sake brewer Asahi Shuzo is preparing to send sake ingredients to the International Space Station in late 2025. Their goal is to produce a single 100ml bottle of space-brewed sake ...

(Kyodo) NAGANO (Kyodo) -- Hands-on experiences of brewing Japanese sake has been a hit with tourists in central Japan even before the techniques used to produce the traditional alcoholic beverage ...

on Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) OKAYA, Nagano (AP) -- Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family's 150-year-old ...

OKAYA, Japan — 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 the ...