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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.
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Sake is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice. The drink can be dry or sweet, and is a bit more acidic than beer. It has an umami flavor.
Tare is traditionally made by mixing and heating soy sauce, sake and/or mirin, and sugar and/or honey. The sauce is boiled and reduced to the desired thickness, then used to marinate meat, which is then grilled or broiled, and the final dish may be garnished with spring onions.
Tamagozake Cocktail Tamagozake Type Cocktail Base spirit Sake Served Hot Commonly used ingredients Raw egg yolk sake Honey or sugar Preparation The raw egg yolk and honey/sugar are mixed into 3/4 cup hot sake. Tamagozake (卵酒 or 玉子酒, "egg sake") is a Japanese alcoholic drink consisting of heated sake, sugar, and a raw egg. In Japan, tamagozake is consumed as a folk remedy for colds ...
The 2,500-Year-Old Japanese rice wine joins the ranks of Haiti's Joumou soup, Tajikistan's Oshi Palav, and Tunisia's Harissa.
The word shōchū is the Japanese rendition of the Chinese shaojiu (燒酒), meaning "burned liquor", which refers to the heating process during distillation. [2] The Chinese way of writing shaojiu with the character 酒 means sake in modern Japanese, which writes shōchū using the character 酎 instead.
Aspergillus oryzae is a mold used in East Asia to saccharify rice, sweet potato, and barley in the making of alcoholic beverages such as sake and shōchū, and also to ferment soybeans for making soy sauce and miso. It is one of the different koji molds ニホンコウジカビ (日本麹黴) (Japanese: nihon kōji kabi) used for food fermentation.