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With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as farmers shift to growing rice varieties unsuitable for brewing. Rice ...
The Garland County brewery, known for utilizing homegrown Arkansas rice and Hot Springs’ famed mineral water for its sake production, earned gold ratings for its Angelfish, a single-origin ...
Sake is a wine from Japan brewed from fermented rice rather than grapes. Francesca Bruno, of Clintondale, is one of Dassai Blue's 43 employees. She started out polishing glass at the brewery and ...
When Imada Sake Brewing master brewer Miho Imada presented a sake inspired by local seafood to a sommelier from Hong Kong, she asked for pairing suggestions. The answer was surprising: braised ...
Hot Springs-based Origami Sake has won a gold award at the Tokyo Sake Challenge 2025, the only sake brewery from the United States to earn such an honor this year. Origami's Angelfish earned the ...
best eaten freshly cooked and off the grill with rice. Thankfully, due to the efforts of some people who truly love and appreciate sake, Japan’s treasured national drink is now regaining ...
Australia's first craft sake brewery. His craft operation uses local rice from New South Wales and combines traditional Japanese methods. "We started home brewing. It kind of snowballed out of ...
The brewery's landmark red-brick chimney remains from when coal was used in rice-steaming. "When people were looking for liquor stores in town, they would look for this kind of chimney and know there ...
“Yamada Nishiki” which is called the ‘king of sake rice,’ has a large grain size, and is known as best for sake brewing. Yamada Nishiki is grown on the northern foot of the Rokko Mountains in Hyogo ...
steamed rice and water in three stages -- inside the tanks. After the tour, they enjoyed freshly pressed sake, apparently available only at the brewery during this time of year. At a nearby ...
While rice dishes vary in taste and tradition, experts note a growing shift toward healthier rice choices, even during festive celebrations. Let's check them out. Black rice pudding Fluffy basmati ...