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

Thomas Northcut/Getty Images When I first seriously started ... reducing the entire effort’s carbon footprint. Previously, all sake rice would go from Arkansas to Minnesota, then off to the ...

The idea to ferment rice-based alcohol came about in ... Photograph by TOMOHIRO OHSUMI/Bloomberg, Getty Images Besides traditional sake, the brewery’s extensive catalogue also includes less ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...