r/Sake • u/bloodbrothergenetics • 8d ago

Is this ok for drinking

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u/jackrandomsx Lead Moderator 8d ago

It doesn't appear to be sake... Not sure how much help we can be here

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u/Dry-Mixture7332 7d ago

If its sake they will write 清酒 somewhere. All asia drink alcohol made of rice the difference between chinese Baiju korean shoju and japanese sake is the 2 first are destilled and sake are fermented. The destilled rice is ofte around 20% in alcohol while sake lays around 14-15%.

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u/bloodbrothergenetics 8d ago

Says rice wine does tht matter?

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u/_BuffaloAlice_ 7d ago

It matters a lot actually considering that they also label certain cooking wines used in Asian cuisine “rice wine”. I’ve met people that said they hated sake only to find out they bought and drank what is essentially rice vinegar used exclusively for cooking, all because it was labeled as “rice wine” and was cheap. While that isn’t the case here and what you have there is meant to be consumed as a beverage, “rice wine” is a very poor blanket description for a wide variety of rice based products.

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u/InternetsTad 7d ago

Not really. This isn’t sake.

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u/_BuffaloAlice_ 7d ago edited 7d ago

Without seeing the whole bottle it is difficult to tell the whole story here. Probably a sake-like product made by a Korean company. The large characters are Japanese kanji (Chrysanthemum?), but the brand is Korean. Now that’s not to say it won’t be drinkable, but from my experience, sake’s produced outside of Japan just don’t really stack up to ones made in Japan, especially the quality ones. The end product is highly dependent on the biome. As a rule of thumb for me regarding ALL alcohol, don’t let the bottle fool you. Any upstart with funding and a prayer can put a mediocre product in a pretty bottle. The bottle is more about marketing than indicating quality. If you’ve never had sake before, do yourself a favor and buy Japanese, and look for words like junmai ginjo/ junmai daiginjo (indicating amount of rice milling prior to fermentation). While not 100%, these are usually pretty good signs that you are getting a decent, genuine sake.

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u/Dry-Mixture7332 7d ago

Yes and then its destilled. If its cloudy its Makgeori and then it has traits with Doburoku in japan. But fermented sake is defined by a starter which makgeori and Doburoku was not made with.