Among pure rice sake styles — where the sake is made only with rice, water, yeast, and koji — there are three classifications: junmai, junmai ginjo, and junmai daiginjo. Junmai is typically the most ...

TOKYO >> The gentle lilt of a flute fills a tight second-story space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake. The bacteria in the 670-liter (147-gallon) tank will take more than two ...

If your experience with sake is limited to the warm cup at your local sushi spot, you're missing the larger world of sake, which is as nuanced and layered as wine. The traditional Japanese drink is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bottles of Dassai 23 sake are seen at Asahi Shuzo Co's facility in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, on July 7, 2022. (Noriko ...

The 2,500-Year-Old Japanese rice wine joins the ranks of Haiti's Joumou soup, Tajikistan's Oshi Palav, and Tunisia's Harissa. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of ...

At the base of Maunkea on the sunny leeward side of Hawai‘i Island, a small-batch brewery is handcrafting high-quality sake ...

“We’re not trying to pretend that we’re making traditional Japanese sake,” Brandon Doughan, the co-founder of Brooklyn Kura, the first sake brewery in New York, told me on a recent Friday morning, as ...

This article and radio report by Naomi Gingold for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on September 11, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. For a long time, sake ...