Consuming your sake spillover-style isn't a simple chug-and-go affair. There are meaningful customs to observe if you want to ...

Sake making has a history of more than a thousand years, with strong roots in Japan's traditional Shinto religion. But when the liquor began to be mass produced during the Edo period, from 1603 ...

A primer on how to drink sake mirrors that of Japanese whisky: you savor it. Considered the national drink of Japan, sake has ...

And it's not just fancy bars adding the drink to their menus: Wagamama, which operates 176 restaurants across the UK, now offers a sparkling sake. Not a wine, beer or spirit, the alcoholic drink ...

Sake has been the biggest loser in the alcohol market from the shift to drinking at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, statistics show. Although wine and other alcoholic beverages have largely ...

Beyond rice, the average bottle of sake will be a mix of water, yeast and koji mould, a special strain that contains enzymes that convert the rice starch to sugar, then into alcohol via the ...

They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake that has no added alcohol or sugar. But mass-produced sake made with cheap additives is threatening the business. For more information, head to the ...

NIIGATA, Japan -- Japanese sake maker Hakkaisan Brewery has entered into a two-year partnership with Major League Baseball's ...

where nihonshu has been successfully branded as a luxury drink, the value per liter was over ¥2,000. With the addition of traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making to the UNESCO list of ...