Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai ...

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Nearly every sake story in U.S.-based publications opens with a historical vignette. Not one about the Japanese imperial court secretaries who 2,500 years ago interspersed their written reports on ...

“I’m 87 percent sure there’s no spit in this,” jokes Benjamin Coutts, as 10 guests smell, sip and savor the pour he has chosen. Most of us, 10 in all, are amused. No one balks at the selection, which ...

Rice represents the essential raw material in sake brewing, with its intrinsic qualities and processing methods critically influencing the beverage’s final flavour profile and aroma. The traditional ...

The Sunday tasting event sends participants on a multi-stop sake tour through downtown Healdsburg.

While the pieces are coming together for a new pizzeria in Algiers Point, a new bar is brewing just next-door in the same building that will bring something different for New Orleans. Rice Vice is a ...

Nearly every sake story in U.S.-based publications opens with a historical vignette. For Ben Bell of Origami Sake Company in Hot Springs, Arkansas, though, any discussion of sake begins with a moment ...