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Sake bottle, Japan, c. 1740 Sake barrel offerings at the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Kamakura Sake, saké (酒, sake, / ˈ s ɑː k i, ˈ s æ k eɪ / SAH-kee, SAK-ay [4] [5]), or saki, [6] also referred to as Japanese rice wine, [7] is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran.
The sake is passed through a loose mesh to separate it from the mash. It is not filtered thereafter and there is much rice sediment in the bottle. Before serving, the bottle is shaken to mix the sediment and turn the sake white or cloudy. Nihonshu 日本酒 Lit. "Japanese liquor", a more specific term than sake, which can mean any kind of alcohol
Everything you need to know about sake, from how it's made to how to drink it and what bottles you should buy.
Kuchikamizake (口噛み酒, mouth-chewed sake) or kuchikami no sake (口噛みの酒) is a type of sake, rice-based brewed alcohol, produced by a process involving human saliva as a fermentation starter. Kuchikamizake was one of the earliest types of Japanese alcoholic drinks.
Sake is an essential part of Shinsen, and is offered to the gods during rituals. [8] The meaning of this ceremony is to receive the sake that has been offered to the gods and in which the spirit resides, and to eat and drink the same food as the gods as well as other food offerings. [9] Some shrines also serve sake after ninenmairi.
Sake is usually filtered to remove grain solids left behind after the fermentation process. Nigori sake is filtered using a broader mesh, resulting in the permeating of fine rice particles and a far cloudier drink. [2] [3] Unfiltered sake is known as doburoku (どぶろく, but also 濁酒) [2] [3] and was originally brewed across Japan by ...
Sake, a Japanese word for salmon commonly used in sushi and other Japanese dishes; Sake, meaning sheikh, an honorific title in the Arabic language; Sake language, a Bantu language spoken in Gabon; Sake Dean Mahomed (1759–1851)
Outside Japan, it is often sold in Asian grocery stores during the winter months, and, all year round, in natural food stores in the U.S. and Europe, as a beverage and natural sweetener. Similar beverages include the Chinese jiuniang which is more pudding like and Korean gamju or sikhye .