Sake, the Japanese beverage made from fermented rice, is having a moment. For years, Americans drinking sake likely sipped it warm from tiny ceramic cups at sushi restaurants. But that’s changing as ...

One of the things that makes writing a column about alcoholic beverages tricky for Mister Drinkies is that he fancies himself a "serious" drinker. By which he means he intends to comport himself with ...

Sunflower Sake Photo by Nina Murphy. Portland’s first shop dedicated solely to sake is now open inside a speakeasy alleyway, serving varieties you’d never find at your average neighborhood sushi ...

Sake rice wine was made some 2,000 years ago, not long after wet cultivation of rice was introduced in Japan, although its origins may go as far back as 4,000 B.C. Methods of serving sake appeared in ...

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NEW ORLEANSNEW ORLEANS — A member of a New Orleans restaurant family is brewing the Japanese rice wine called sake from grain grown at Louisiana State University, the LSU AgCenter says. Brennan family ...

Reporting from Oakland — When I ask Yoshihiro Sako of Den Sake Brewery whether his first love was wine or sake, he answers slowly, as if it were a trick question. “Sake.” Then, with a smile: “Of ...

When the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, the largest and most successful international wine education body, starts to offer Level 1 and 3 Awards in sake, it means this beverage is gaining momentum as ...