Wine or Beer?!
Wine or Beer?
Japanese sake is a fermented beverage made from grain NOT fruit. Howcome it's also referred to as "rice wine" then?
Answers:
So much nonsense answers. Sake is a distilled spirit, technically not a wine. Probably a misnomer due to translation. In the state of Sabah, Malaysia there is tapai, mentaku and leheng; all from rice. Tapai is dry fermented rice. Water is added at the time of consumption. Mentaku is the distilled version and leheng is akin to wine made from rice.
Basically any source of carbohydrate can be turned into spirit or wine.
say no to them
coz rice is a kind of grain
Because people tend to drink it in a wine type context. You don't hear people grabbing a six pack of Sake to take to the game on Sunday.
Sake is Beer. But being a Sake lover, I also would consider it more wine like. Higher alcohol, and still.
I would say it has to do with the alcohol content. When I drink a beer, I expect something between 5 to 7% alcohol. Sake is in the 15 to 18% range, which is much closer to that of wine.
I don't know the process for making sake. I would think its called a wine because the process is more like wine than beer. Tastes like dirty socks smell to me anyways, perhaps it should be in a catergory all its own.
Look at it this way, All beers have HOPS(in varing amounts) as an ingerdient. Also Beer uses MALT for color, flavor and alchohol. Sake doesn't imply any of those methods. If you want rice beer read the ingredients on a can of Budwieser. You'll find rice
It could verywell be the alchohol content, beer with a high enough alchohol content is called barley wine.