The sake bomb is pretty much just a boilermaker, only with Japanese rice wine dropped into the beer instead of rotgut whiskey. The main difference between the two is that the former has long been ...

What do you get when you combine some of the world's most unique water and rice, grown in the crop's North American center? If some Arkansas entrepreneurs have anything to say about it, the beginning ...

Atrained sommelier, Paul Tanguay began developing his passion for saké about seven years ago when he joined SushiSamba, a Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian fusion concept that has locations in Chicago, ...

TOKYO >> Doburoku, an unfiltered sake, is experiencing a renaissance. New brewers have joined long-­established sake breweries to produce the sweet rice wine, creating products with unique flavors and ...

All sakes start with rice and water, which are fermented in a process similar to that of brewing beer. But every toji — head sake brewer — has a different style, and rice polishing, additives and ...

OKAYA, Japan (AP) — Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in the foothills ...

Chiaki Takahashi and Tama Hirose’s homeland of Japan has about 1,600 licensed sake breweries. In Hawai‘i, there’s one: Islander Sake Brewery, which the pair launched in 2018. Until then, Hawai‘i had ...

It was right after the Lunar New Year, an auspicious time for ceremonies, and we huddled under umbrellas as a Shinto priest ...

The demand for sake, a Japanese alcoholic drink, has increased globally. However, the rise in the popularity of sake has the potential for related beverage fraud. To address this issue, researchers ...