Japanese Food Sake Letters from Japan

Sake is widely known as Japans national drink. It is believed that Japan has been making sake in one form or another for over two thousand years. Technically, sake just means alcohol, so any kind of beer, wine or liquor would be considered sake. What most people mean as, Japanese Rice Wine is actually called Nihonshu. And although its referred to as rice wine, itd probably be more accurate to say, rice beer because wine is made from fermenting fruit, while beer is made from fermenting grains.