As two of Japan's most popular culinary exports, serving sushi with sake seems like a sensible choice. However, there's a ...

The difference between the two reminded me of the range of beers an American craft brewer might produce for their adventurous ...

Rice grains play a crucial role in the production of traditional Japanese alcoholic beverages, particularly sake and shochu. Sake is a fermented beverage made exclusively from rice, while shochu ...

TENDO, Yamagata Prefecture--Serious rice wine drinkers overseas tend to fall over themselves trying to get their hands on “ginjo” high-quality sake produced by Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co ...

But in Japan, o-kome, or "honorable rice," is much more than a commodity. In the Shinto religion, sake, rice cakes, and other rice products are the most sacred of offerings, and to a nation that ...

Brewery Asahi Shuzo Co. held its first-ever contest in 2019 to find the best Yamada Nishiki rice variety to use in Dassai, a renowned “junmai daiginjo” (sake specially brewed with pure rice ...

Waitrose announced searches on its website for the fermented rice beverage had soared by 241% year-on-year, while plum sake searches have climbed 100% compared with 2023, reported The Times.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai daiginjo. One bottle can easily ...

The region is known for heavy snowfall, and the brewery uses natural spring water from the 2,000-meter-high mountains for sake production. Utilizing locally grown rice such as Gohyakumangoku and ...

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 that has no added alcohol or sugar.