Second, don’t overchill sake. Cold temperatures can hide or subdue ... you are now ready to start exploring this fundamental part of Japanese dining and social culture. Kanpai!

Maesako hopes the UN body's recognition of the traditional brewing technique will turn things around by igniting demand overseas, where sake has slowly gained popularity alongside Japanese cuisine ...

For more than 1,000 years, the Japanese rice wine known as sake has been brewed. It can be served hot or cold, and its ...

Discover the origins and resurgence of doburoku, the rustic, unfiltered "mother of sake," steeped in ancient Japanese ...

Fancy a trip to Japan without the jetlag? Look no further than central Lisbon, where you can explore a culinary visit to an ...

Brewers stir the mixture in a container to make a yeast starter, an important ingredient used in brewing sake, a traditional Japanese rice wine, at Ishikawa Shuzou, or Ishikawa Brewery, in Fussa, ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An interpreter, left, translates for Junichiro Ozawa, head of Ozawa Sake Brewery, third left, and his worker ...

FUSSA, Japan - At a Tokyo brewery dating back to the days of the samurai, Mr Koichi Maesako drops a 3m-long wooden paddle into a giant, jade-coloured tank and gently stirs the white mixture that ...

OME, Japan (AP) — 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 ...