Some home truths about the best and the worst of that fiery little drink from Japan If you have come across sake, Japanese rice wine, at all, chances are that you were in a sushi bar when you did so.

Sake, that fermented alcoholic rice beverage from Japan, has a long tradition in bars, but in Denver it’s just starting to make a splash. Many people think of the drink as simply something served warm ...

Sake is made from rice. It is a brewed alcoholic beverage. There are varying degrees of quality determined by production and the amount milled away from each grain of rice. There are more than 30,000 ...

Forget what you think you know about sake. It's not served hot -- the good stuff, anyway. It's brewed like beer but is actually a wine. It doesn't leave you with a monster hangover. And it's not just ...

For Izumibashi Sake Brewery, a 162-year-old Japanese liquor company based in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, this saying couldn’t be more accurate. Surrounded by Mt. Oyama and the vast Sagami River, the ...

Sommelier Courtney Kaplan and her partner chef Charles Namba recently opened Ototo, a sake bar in Echo Park next to their popular izakaya, Tsubaki. Kaplan says Ototo is designed as a casual ...

The slick thirtysomethings at the bar eagerly reach for the frosty pink concoctions shivering in martini glasses. Cosmos? No, too ’90s for this crowd. The taste is vaguely Cosmo-ish, but what accounts ...

WALKING along East Ninth Street, one senses rather than sees Sakaya’s storefront, its presence indicated by a discreet sign and, in the window, a sugidama, a sphere of bundled cedar branches that was ...

If ordering sake at a sushi restaurant brings on a panic attack, you’re not alone. Sake is complicated, at least at first. To help decipher the labels and learn enough about the fermented rice ...