The sake business is reaching new heights. A Japanese sake maker wants to make an alcoholic beverage in space. Asahi Shuzo, the company behind the popular sake brand Dassai, plans to blast ingredients ...

In 2022, the Japanese sake export reached a record-high of 47.5 billion Japanese yen, an 18% increase from 2021 and a 452% jump from 2013. Despite such a dramatic surge in popularity, sake is only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sake is something of an oddity in the world of alcoholic beverages. While wine is made from grapes and beer from barley malt, sake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Manaturu Brewery, Fukui Prefecture/Monica Samuels Rain swept across the winter-gold rice fields of Japan's Kanto plain, ...

In the last decade, a truly homegrown effort has bubbled up in the United States A bright spot for sake is in America. In 2022, according to the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, the U.S. was ...

Rarely, outside of Japan and other Asian nations, do people consider sake as something to be enjoyed casually or even outside of a culinary or omakase experience—let alone as a mixer for a cocktail.

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 that ...

Imports are way up, retail shops are proliferating and more sake breweries are opening. Customers at Kuraichi, a sake shop in Japan Village in Brooklyn, which holds free sake tastings on Saturday ...