Afterward, about 520 grams of moromi, or fermentation mash, will be frozen and brought back to Earth, where it will be pressed and turned into Japanese sake. A single 100 ml bottle will be ...

A bottle of limited-edition sake from the renowned Dassai brand fetched the equivalent of 843,750 yen ($8,026) at auction in Hong Kong on Nov. 10. The winning bid was 62,500 Hong Kong dollars.

The sake business is reaching new heights. A Japanese sake maker wants to make an alcoholic beverage in space. Asahi Shuzo, the company behind the popular sake brand Dassai, plans to blast ...

bottles calling to you from the back of laminated menus and well-lit corners of Japanese restaurants and grocery stores. To help heighten your next sake experience by ensuring you can ...

Sake is a traditional Japanese alcoholic beverage made from ... the end result from this process will be a single, 100 ml bottle. That bottle will be sold as “Dassai — Moon Space Brew ...

Brewers believe traditional Japanese drink will see a renaissance now it has gained a world heritage listing. Sake, a traditional rice wine known as nihonshu, ranks as one of Japan's most famous ...

Japanese sake brewer Asahi Shuzo is preparing to send sake ingredients to the International Space Station in late 2025. Their goal is to produce a single 100ml bottle of space-brewed sake ...

A Japanese sake brewery will attempt to make the world’s first outer space sake, creating just one bottle and donating the 100 million yen (US$640,000) proceeds from its sale to domestic space ...

The company behind the sake brand Dassai is developing ... sale" will be donated to "support future Japanese space developments.") But the six-figure bottle is only the beginning of Asahi Shuzo ...

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OKAYA, Japan — 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 ...