First off all the people that still consider sake as a kind of beer. Beer lovers, you wish, sake is made totally different, there are only one and a half major things in common; it’s brewed and the grain need a first transferring from starch into glucose. With beer this proces is done before the brewing, with sake before and during the brewing proces.

No beer lover would consider paying a 20 to up 1000 Euro for a nice beer, well sake lovers do, for sake. Indeed there is also beer made with rice. This beer has been created with different rice as quality sake, with the brewing process of beer. No comparison in taste however with sake.

Wine is wine, off course; wine is made with grapes not with rice. Need to say more? There are however more similarities with wine. Thirst off all the alcohol content, the place you can serve this beverage (anywhere anytime) and the taste, the glass. But sake is much more complex then wine. This means sake can accompany a dish much better then wine can.

When you compare sake with wine I don’t mind. You have champagne and you have sake made with a second fermentation at the bottle. Both are sparkling, both are nice. Then you have a matured ten year old port and you have ten year aged sake. All off them make a perfect combination with some cheese dishes.
Still sake is sake and wine is wine.

On the internet there are site’s saying either sake is brewed like beer, or sake is a kind of beer. Those sites should get a red mark. They don’t know what they are talking about.
Even some Wikipedia sites have no correct information. One of the major problems of this fabulous world wide encyclopaedia is; not the people who know, but the majority decides what the content of the articles are.


Simon Hofstra
Sake.nl.