The versatile Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice can be enjoyed chilled or warm and sipped solo or paired with food. If you are not familiar with sake or if you've only drank it ...

to a grain. The brewery bought 50 bags, or 3 tons, of Sakauchi’s rice for 500,000 yen per bag, about 25 times the market price. Each bag weighs 60 kilograms. Among Asahi Shuzo’s sake offerings ...

OME, Japan--Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing ...