OKAYA, Japan (AP) — 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 the foothills ...

Toji ("Toji-san") Yamamoto has dedicated his life to brewing sake by hand. At 68 years young, he's the brewmaster at Yoshida Brewery in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture. It's 144 years old and one of only ...

Sake has fueled many joyous and commemorative occasions in Japan. Now, it has provided another reason to celebrate.

With the price of rice skyrocketing, sake breweries are being left high and dry, struggling to procure raw ingredients as ...

“What we’re really trying to do is express the flavors of locally grown California rice, much in the same way that a Japanese brewery wants to showcase their local rice and local water.” Troy ...