An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

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

“Actually, there are many things in common,” Kokura said. The former engineer says sake brewers today do not seem to make full use of data showing the finished condition of the malted rice.

It is meant to commemorate the first day of the sake-making season in Japan, as October used to be considered the best period of time to begin making sake – right between the time the sake rice ...

The religious connotations of sake are evident at the brewery. The big cedar-leaves ball hanging under the eaves is a symbol ...

A brewing company has teamed with a temple in Nara Prefecture to make and sell sake re-created from a roughly 450-year-old recipe recorded by medieval Japanese monks. During the Muromachi ...

An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and shochu distilled spirits be included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, putting their ...