Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country's pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served ...

OSAKA, Japan—The Japanese have been drinking sake since the eighth century. Back then, it was believed the rice-based liquor warded off ghosts. Today, it has a stronger spirit to contend with ...

This Hudson Valley brewery is combining Japanese tradition with modern innovation to produce the "highest tier of sake." ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association (JSS) is hosting a special tour inviting top professionals from the global wine and bar industries to explore the depth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--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 ...

Sake, along with Japanese cuisine in general, has become firmly entrenched overseas, particularly over the past 10 years or so. Ginjo sake is now hugely popular outside Japan as well. As one of ...

"Then when I came back to Japan, thinking about Japanese culture, obviously it’s not about the wine. It’s sake, right? "So then I said, ‘OK, it’s unique, because sake is only made in Japan’.

NIIGATA, Japan -- Japanese sake maker Hakkaisan Brewery has entered into a two-year partnership with Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers that will make it the team's official sake ...