Sake

Sake is an all-natural rice-based fermented alcoholic beverage, made similar to beer and served similar to wine. Though an ancient beverage dating back to the 1st century BCE in Japan, it wasn’t until the 12th century where it was being regularly brewed and used in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, and the processes began to be formalized. By the beginning of the 18th century, saké was so popular that in modern day Tokyo, the    . . . more