Earlier this year, nine sake neophytes gathered around a table at Brooklyn Kura, a craft sake brewery, to learn the subtleties of rice-polishing ... herbal Omachi junmai served with takeout ...

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. Rice ...

“There are sakes that will mimic gin, for instance,” says Vichaikul, citing Sankan, Bizen Omachi ... rice that adds a blush of pink and a savory quality to the off-dry sparkling sake ...

The water quality, the combination of soil, terrain and climate allows us to grow the rice varieties used for sake, such as Omachi, Somai, and Yamada Nishiki. MB: There are a handful of premium ...

Sake brewers in Japan are struggling to get their hands on the ingredients needed to make the famous rice wine as farmers focus on rice varieties that are unsuitable for brewing. Prices have ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating back more ...

Sake - the fermented rice wine from Japan - is clearly the drink of the moment. It appears to have taken over the UK, with sake bars springing up across London, while Waitrose has reported a ...

With a Japan-trained sake master now in its employ, the company is confident its premium rice wine product can appeal to the country’s wine drinkers. Andy Coyne spoke to co-founder Matt Bell.