Soju is lower in alcohol content than most spirits, typically around 20%, JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Rice has been a staple food in many cultures for centuries, but it’s not just for eating.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai ...

What do you get when you combine some of the world's most unique water and rice, grown in the crop's North American center? If some Arkansas entrepreneurs have anything to say about it, the beginning ...

OKAYA, Japan (AP) — Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in the foothills ...

The United States is now sake’s largest export market by volume. Long a staple in Japanese restaurants, sake also garners increasing interest in the mixology community. For an overview of America’s ...

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Sake brewers in Japan are struggling to get their hands on the ingredients needed to make the famous rice wine as farmers focus on rice varieties that are unsuitable for brewing. Prices have surged ...

Nearly every sake story in U.S.-based publications opens with a historical vignette. For Ben Bell of Origami Sake Company in Hot Springs, Arkansas, though, any discussion of sake begins with a moment ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Simplicity is at the heart of Origami Sake. The beverage has four ingredients, Ozark spring water, yeast, kogi -- a type of mold that converts the starch in rice to sugar -- and ...

DARLINGTON — Hagood Coxe stood on farmland along the Pee Dee River that has been in her family for five generations. Once known as Plumfield Plantation, the land’s proximity to the river created the ...