Koshiki is a large tub used to steam rice. The sake brewing begins with rice polishing, rice washing, and then rice steaming in a koshiki with a large amount of vapor for about an hour. After that, th...

Just as men, women have played important roles in sake brewing since the old days. This is supported by a theory that the word toji, a brew master, comes from a word representing an honorific title fo...

The most common sake vessel used over drinks is ochoko, a small sake cup. The word choko comes from various Japanese roots including the meaning of “a little thing” and “plain”. By the way, choko incl...

Guinomi is one of sake vessels. The most plausible origin of the name comes from the Japanese word meaining “gulp”, or the word meaning “a cup which allows us to gulp abundant of sake”. There is no sp...

Sake should be chilled when it tastes good after chilled. A cold sake server has a feature of keeping sake cold even after the sake is taken out from the refrigerator. There is an abundant line-up, ra...

KURA MASTER is a sake contest for French people, which was established in France in 2017. Most of the entries are junmai-shu. In the 2020 contest, there will be 6 categories in total, which are Junmai...

In 2005, the Japan Sake Brewers Association Junior Council, a national organization made up of young sake brewers, who had become directors of their breweries under age 45, launched the Sake Samurai P...

Under the Labeling Standards for the Manufacturing Process and Quality of Sake of the National Tax Agency Notice, brewer’s alcohol (or jozo-alcohol) is defined as alcohol distilled from fermented star...

There is really a variety of sake vessels to savor sake. The materials range widely from ceramics, pottery, lacquerware, metals including copper and tin, glass, acryl, wood and bamboo. Especially when...

The former National Research Institute of Brewing (NRIB) was a national institute of brewing laboratory founded in 1904 under the control of the Ministry of the Treasury in Takinogawa, Kita-ku, Tokyo,...