With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as farmers shift to growing rice varieties unsuitable for brewing.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai daiginjo. One bottle can easily ...

A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has ... A standard serve is 80ml, making it one very expensive drink. “There is no guarantee of 100% success for the fermentation tests ...

Sake, once the heart of Japanese tradition, is surprisingly falling out of favor in its homeland—but booming abroad. In this ...

Although Japan’s sake industry is facing a crisis thanks to falling domestic consumption, Kenbishi – the country’s oldest sake brand – remains unbending in its commitment to the old ways ...

When Imada Sake Brewing master brewer Miho Imada presented a sake inspired by local seafood to a sommelier from Hong Kong, she asked for pairing suggestions. The answer was surprising: braised ...