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| | | Sake (pronounced "SAH-KAY" in Japanese) is a Japanese alcoholic beverage, brewed from rice. It is often referred to as rice wine.
In Japan, the word simply means alcoholic beverage, and regionally, it can take on more specific meanings. In Southern Kyushu, sake usually refers to a distilled beverage, potato shochu. Shochu means distilled spirit made with koji. In Okinawa, sake refers to shochu made from sugar cane. On the other hand, sake can also mean Okinawa's other distilled beverages, awamori, literally "bubble top", or kusu, literally "old drink". These latter forms of sake are distilled from long-grain rice and kurokoji which means black koji. The rice wine known in the west as "sake" is called nihonshu "Japanese alcohol" in Japanese. |
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