As the old sake adage goes: Sake is built like beer ... When you order sake at a Japanese restaurant or bar in the U.S., ...

OKAYA, Nagano Prefecture--Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in ...

For Maesako, the 40-year-old chief brewer of Ishikawa ... around by igniting demand overseas, where sake has slowly gained popularity alongside Japanese cuisine, also in part thanks to UNESCO ...

Brewers believe traditional Japanese drink will see a renaissance now it has gained a world heritage listing. Sake, a traditional rice wine known as nihonshu, ranks as one of Japan's most famous ...