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Get schooled in sake at Bay Area breweries, museums + shops By Jan 23, 2018 We've all had our share of wine tastings and too many flights of craft beer and whiskey to count. Care for something different? Of course, there's absolutely nothing new about sake. The low-alcohol, fermented rice drink is so ancient and prevalent in its native Japan that the country is apparently over it, but that's not stopping Western importers from bringing it over by the boatload. And while most sophisticated Bay Area foodies have long since moved beyond the notion that sake must be served hot (the...

Sake special: Sake trends and a study of the French market 05 March 2021 By db_staff In the final instalment of a three-part series, the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture (KMIITC) shares the latest sake export data and reveals the results of its survey of French sake consumers. Kyoto From January to December 2020, sake exports reached a record high for the eleventh consecutive year. Shipments rose by 3.1% to reach 24.1 billion yen, despite being significantly affected by Covid-19. Sake now accounts for around 34% of the total value of Japanese alco...

Sake special: The history of Kyoto sake Sponsored Story 22nd January, 2021 by db_staff In the first of a three-part series, the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture explores the history and science behind Japan’s national drink. The Kyoto skyline Before Tokyo, Kyoto was Japan’s capital, a title it held between the years of 794 and 1869. It is also often referred to as the country’s cultural capital. It is home to 41 sake breweries, 22 of which are in the Fushimi district where the Matsuo Taisha shrine, built in 701AD to acknowledge a deity that is considere...

For Maho Otsuka everything is about timing. By Stacey Leasca on January 01, 2021 As the toji, or master brewer, at Shoutoku Shuzo, a sake brewery in the Fushimi district of Kyoto, Maho Otsuka carefully keeps track of the time the rice is steamed, how long it sits with water, koji, and yeast to ferment, and just how long it takes to press and bottle for sale. Some of this process takes hours, some of it takes days, and some takes weeks. But for Otsuka, that’s okay, because sake making is a 2,500-year-old process that she’s spent 20 years mastering, and a...

Man indicted over Kyoto Animation arson attack that killed 36 Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Kyodo Dec 16, 2020 Kyoto – Prosecutors indicted a 42-year-old man Wednesday over an arson attack in July last year on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that killed 36 people and injured 33 others. Shinji Aoba, who was arrested in May for perpetrating one of Japan’s worst mass murders, has likely been determined by medical experts to be mentally competent based ...