Sake has been brewed in Japan for thousands of years. The most expensive kind, made with polished grains of rice, is called junmai daiginjo. One bottle can easily cost over $100. And the more the rice is polished, the more expensive the sake. Niizawa Brewery, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, brews sake with rice polished to less than 1% of its original size. The most expensive bottles of this sake cost almost $10,000. We followed a master sake brewer to find out how sake is made and why some bottles can be so expensive.

Chapters
Intro 0:00
One of Japan’s youngest brewmasters 0:40
Starting work at 5 a.m. 1:22
Rice polishing 2:37
Washing rice 3:45
Steaming rice 5:00
Promoting Nanami to brewmaster 5:48
Sake rice 6:47
Koji mold 8:23
Fermentation 10:06
Tasting sake 12:21
Niizawa brewery history 15:23

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