Saturday, October 3rd! A Grand Celebration of Japanese Sake in Massachusetts

So first of all, just a little background.

What is sake? Is sake beer? Is it wine? What what is it? Is it a spirit? What is it?

So we have a couple of myths to talk about.

OK, so big first myth.

Sake is not a spirit.

Most people think it's a spirit.

They think it's distilled like vodka, rum, tequila.

It's not distilled.

It's fermented more like a beer or like a wine.

So the alcohol strength is not really high.

You don't need to shoot it.

I'll explain why we serve it in small glass.

You don't need to shoot it.

You want to sip it.

It's typically about 15% to 18% alcohol.

So we like to call it a rice wine.

It's technically not a wine because it's not made from a fruit, but it is fermented similar to beer and wine.

Okay.

It's actually – yeah, but it – A little bit more like a beer because you're taking something where it's like the rice and you're converting that, well getting a little ahead, but converting that starch into sugars in a different method.

But that's sort of really what beer, more beer is like.

Wine is a simple fermentation process.

We have, you take the grapes, you squeeze them, you've got sugars readily available.

You add yeast, you get alcohol.

That's simple fermentation.

Sugar, add yeast.