Asahi Shuzo, the maker of Dassai, is going to brew sake in space for the first time in history. The first space-brewed sake ...

Afterward, about 520 grams of moromi, or fermentation mash, will be frozen and brought back to Earth, where it will be pressed and turned into Japanese sake. A single 100 ml bottle will be ...

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 ...

Bottles of Dassai 23 sake are seen at Asahi Shuzo Co's facility in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, on July 7, 2022. A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has gone before: space.

Data compiled by Japan’s National Tax Agency show rice wine exports to the United States are on the rise. But sake bottles account for only 0.2 percent of the U.S. alcohol drink market in 2020 ...

“I had access to Japan in a big way,” Geoffroy says ... Priced about $180 per 720ml bottle, IWA 5 is something of a leap of faith for anyone other than true sake lovers. It’s a fact that’s readily ...