With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as farmers shift to growing rice varieties unsuitable for brewing. Rice ...

Unlike the world of standard wine, the fundamentals of sake -- and other rice-based spirits -- remains more opaque to the ...

It’s not easy for a wine lover with little experience in sake. How to even start to read a label of Japan’s national rice-based beverage? On my first trip to Japan this spring, I achieved my goal, ...

OME – 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 ...

A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has gone before: space. Asahi Shuzo, the company behind popular Japanese sake brand Dassai, plans to blast sake ingredients to the International ...

The basic ingredients of sake are few: rice, water, yeast and koji, a rice mold, which breaks down the starches into fermentable sugars like malting does in beer production. The whole two-month ...

Sake - the fermented rice wine from Japan - is clearly the drink of the moment. It appears to have taken over the UK, with sake bars springing up across London, while Waitrose has reported a ...

The old way of making Japanese sake is finally getting its due. This week, UNESCO officially added the Japanese rice wine to its list of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” ...