Sake is a Japanese alcoholic beverage that is made from fermented rice. Often referred to as “Japanese rice wine”, sake(pronounced “sah-keh”) is actually closer to beer than wine in its brewing process, however, it is light in color with a hint of sweetness.
Four ingredients are required to make sake: rice, koji, yeast, and water. The rice grains are polished to remove the bran, then mixed with koji mold, yeast, and water in fermentation process that converts the starches into sugar, which then ferments into alcohol.
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