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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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 ...

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 ...

During the pandemic, fourth-generation sake brewer Akira Sasaki realized that, despite having worked at his family business for over 25 years, he had rarely had a chance to see the faces of the ...

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, priced ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food and culture. If you like Japanese food, you may enjoy Japanese sake as well. But many of us drink sake ...

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 foothills of the ...

Visitors to Kitsukura Shuzou sake brewing company in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, experience sake-making during a tour in November 2024. (Kyodo) NAGANO (Kyodo) -- Hands-on experiences of brewing ...

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 ...