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Why You Should Stop Drinking Sake Bombs (Seriously)
One of the most notorious things about Japanese food and drink culture is sake, and more specifically, sake bombs. The alcohol, which is made by fermenting rice, is a delicious and unique drink ...
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A look at the culture and tradition behind brewing sake in Japan
Following its inclusion on UNESCO’s cultural heritage list, Japanese brewers hope to showcase the true identity of sake and ...
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Once taboo, more Japanese women are brewing sake
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 ...
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Nondrinkers team up in east Japan to produce traditional 'doburoku' sake ice cream
They happened to be talking about "doburoku," a type of unrefined sake. The production method ... brewed by nearly every farming household in Japan. However, with the Meiji-era (1868-1912 ...
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Less than 1% of Japanese sake is made this traditional way
An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...