OKAYA, Japan (AP) — 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 the foothills ...
It was right after the Lunar New Year, an auspicious time for ceremonies, and we huddled under umbrellas as a Shinto priest ...
TOKYO >> The gentle lilt of a flute fills a tight second-story space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake. The bacteria in the 670-liter (147-gallon) tank will take more than two ...
HOT SPRINGS -- After years of effort, the dream of opening a sake brewery in Hot Springs will soon be a reality for two Arkansas men. Matt Bell, owner and CEO of Origami Sake, and Ben Bell, vice ...
HONOLULU (ISLAND NEWS) -- The poet Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Except... in some new sake brews by a celebrated Champagne maker.