Sake Guides
Articles on choosing, tasting, serving, and how sake is made. Currently available in Japanese.
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07How Sake Is Made, Step by Step
Sake is brewed from just three things: rice, rice koji, and water. The path from milling to bottling runs in a single line, but it branches at several points along the way, and those branches are what give one sake a different flavor from the next. We'll start with a table of the whole process, t...
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28Milling, Koji, and the Three-Stage Mash: Inside the Core Steps of Sake Brewing
What decides the flavor of a bottle before it ever reaches a glass? Much of the answer lies in three steps: rice milling, koji-making, and the three-stage mash. In The Full Sake Production Process, we traced the journey from raw rice to bottled sake as a single continuous flow. Here, we pull out ...
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