Sake drinkers at first see only a cherry tree with empty branches adorning their cup. But as cold sake is poured, they watch cherry flowers appear and bloom one by one, as if by magic.

Beyond just hot or cold, filtered or unfiltered, there are a variety of sakes based on their rice polish ratio (RPR). There’s ...

MITO--“Cracking open a cold one” is a tradition among baseball fans in the stands, but a 234-year-old sake brewery here in Ibaraki Prefecture is gunning to serve the next drinks at Dodger Stadium.