Sake News from Japan / Sake Muse

Sake Times (Japanese) reports on a new development in the world of sake - crowdfunding! The Maboroshii-no-Sake (phantom or illusory sake) company launched a campaign on Japanese crowdfunding site Makuake on 17 October 2017 to raise funds for a project to "have more...

Sake Times (Japanese) reports on a sake with an unusual name - Shinigami (死神). The name is hard to translate because of the different mythologies involved, but the nearest things would be the Angel of Death or the Grim Reaper. Even Kamofuku, the Shimane Prefecture...

Cookery news site Cookbiz recommends three apps to help you enjoy sake even more. First is Sakenote, which arranges records of the sake you've drunk in a list with photos, allows you to search for a brewery or brand by name, take notes and share to Twitter and...

Shizuoka Shinbun news site @S reports that local brewery Hana-no-mai is making an on-trade exclusive sake using wine yeast. It's their first time using wine yeast, with supervision from the chef/owner of the French restaurant Abysse in Tokyo. The resulting sake has...

I hadn't heard of natsuzake (夏酒, summer sake) before yesterday's news snippet on a day in the life of a sake educator (and if you happen to be the ones in question, also a manzai comedian). A link from that story led to an article on the Sake Times site that discusses...

Excite News ran a story on 26 September 2017 (updated 3 October) in their "Shigoto wo shirou" (understand this job) series talking about a day in the life of a sake educator.  The practice of tasting in Japan is called kikizake (利き酒, discernment or mastery of sake)...

Mynavi News reported on 27 September 2017 that the "complex PET bottle" developed by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) from their light-blocking functional barrier film has been adopted as a namazake container by the Pressurised Namazake Consortium. The bottle is...

The Page, a Japanese news site dedicated to "making the news you're interested in easy to understand", has a report from Yuusuke Iguchi on how the brewery who produce the Kubota brand are trying to overcome the decline in sake consumption in Japan. According to the...

According to K. Masami of Rocket News 24, there are two competing candidates for the birthplace of sake in Japan: Nara, or Itami in Hyogo Prefecture.  Nara's claim to be the origin of sake rests on the tradition of brewing in Buddhist monasteries. Shōryaku Temple is...