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  • Kurabito (蔵人): The Team Behind Every Bottle of Sake
  • Sandan Jikomi: Sake’s Three-Step Mashing Method
  • Kura (酒蔵): Inside a Traditional Japanese Sake Brewery

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Kurabito (蔵人): The Team Behind Every Bottle of Sake

A kurabito is a sake brewery worker, one of the skilled hands who brews sake under the toji, or master brewer. Sake is never the work of one person alone, and behind every bottle s...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Sandan Jikomi: Sake’s Three-Step Mashing Method

Sandan jikomi is the traditional three-step method of building the main fermentation mash in sake brewing. Brewers add steamed rice, koji, and water in three stages, spread across...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Kura (酒蔵): Inside a Traditional Japanese Sake Brewery

A great sake begins long before the rice is even washed. Instead, it begins with the building itself, the kura. So what is a kura? A kura, or sakagura, is a traditional Japanese sa...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Toji (杜氏): The Master Brewer Behind Every Bottle of Sake

Behind every great bottle of sake stands one guiding figure: the toji. So what is a toji? A toji is the master brewer who leads all of sake production. Indeed, this person oversees...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Kumimizu Buai (汲水歩合): The Water-to-Rice Ratio That Shapes Sake

Kumimizu buai (汲水歩合) is sake’s water-to-rice ratio. Brewers calculate it by dividing the brewing water in liters by the total rice in kilograms, then multiplying by 100. Most b...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Shikomi Haigo (仕込配合): The Brewing Recipe That Defines Sake

Two breweries can start with the same rice variety, the same well, and the same yeast. Yet the sake in the glass tastes nothing alike. The reason usually hides in a document that d...

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asia.nikkei.com /1 week ago

Tokyo brewer challenges sake's fixation on famous water

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foodinjapan.org /4 days ago

History of Sake: From Ancient Rice Fermentation to Modern Nihonshu

The history of sake stretches back roughly two thousand years, at least if you use the word broadly for Japanese alcoholic drinks made from rice. Yet the earliest rice-based drinks...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Sake Kasu (酒粕): Sake Lees from Brewing to Table

Every bottle of sake leaves something behind. After the fermented mash is pressed, a soft, pale, fragrant solid remains in the press. The Japanese call it sake kasu, and many peopl...

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channelnewsasia.com /1 month ago

Singapore’s only sake brewery is in Jurong, making pulut hitam sake and winning recognition in Japan

Reuben Oh and Yumika Yamamoto overcame the challenges of brewing sake in Singapore to create distinctly local expressions now served at Michelin-starred restaurants, recognised in...

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foodinjapan.org /4 days ago

Chogo (調合): Blending and Adjusting Sake for Consistent Quality

Two tanks of sake sit side by side in a storage building. Same rice, same yeast, same recipe, same brewing season. Yet one tastes rounder, while the other carries sharper acidity....

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foodinjapan.org /3 weeks ago

Koji Buai (麹歩合): How Much Rice Becomes Koji

Ask a brewer what makes sake possible and the answer rarely starts with rice. It starts with koji. Yet koji is not added freely, and the amount is measured to the kilogram. That me...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Orisage (滓下げ): Clarifying Sake Before Bottling

Pour a glass of good sake and hold it up to the light. That transparency looks effortless, yet it takes weeks of quiet work. So what is Orisage? Orisage (滓下げ) is the clarificati...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Kan-zukuri (寒造り): Why Sake Is Traditionally Brewed in Winter

Kan-zukuri is the traditional practice of brewing sake during the coldest months of the year. The cold does real work here. Low temperatures slow fermentation, keep it stable, and...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Bottling (瓶詰め): How Sake Becomes a Product

Bottling, or binzume (瓶詰め) in Japanese, is the stage where finished sake enters its retail container. Brewers fill, seal and then check the liquid they have spent months prepari...

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foodinjapan.org /2 weeks ago

Karashi: Rice, Koji and Moto Conditioning

Karashi (枯らし) is a conditioning period in sake brewing, and it happens three separate times. Rice rests after polishing, koji rests after leaving the koji room, and the finished...

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foodinjapan.org /3 weeks ago

Jukusei (熟成): How Aging Transforms Sake

Jukusei (熟成) is the maturation of sake after brewing has finished. During this stage, time, temperature, and storage conditions gradually reshape its aroma, flavor, color, and te...

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wineindustryadvisor.com /1 week ago

De Maison Selections Enters Sake Category with Four Japanese Breweries Making U.S. Debut

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Warimizu (割水): Why Water Is Added Before Bottling Sake

Ask someone how sake reaches its final strength, and most people picture the fermentation tank. Yet one of the last and most quietly important steps happens after brewing is basica...

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foodinjapan.org /1 month ago

Oribiki (ж»“еј•гЃЌ): How Sake Racking Removes Sediment After Pressing

Oribiki (ж»“еј•гЃЌ) is the sake racking step that separates clear sake from settled sediment after pressing. Brewers rest the freshly pressed sake until solids sink, then draw the...

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foodinjapan.org /1 week ago

Hi-ochi (火落ち): Bacterial Spoilage in Sake

Hi-ochi (火落ち) is the bacterial spoilage of sake. It strikes after brewing finishes, and a small group of ethanol-tolerant lactic acid bacteria causes it. Sake is a hostile place...

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asia.nikkei.com /3 weeks ago

10 great craft spirit distilleries in Japan with tours and tastings

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japantimes.co.jp /1 month ago

Japan’s brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music

It might sound like pseudoscience, but there could be more to the idea of brewing with music than meets the ear.

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scmp.com /3 days ago

Young Malaysians brew goal for traditional tuak drink to become national success

At Raffly Langi’s family longhouse in Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, the tuak rice wine did not come in a branded bottle or a tasting flight. His aunt has brewed the drink for Gawai...

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