Video: Misconceptions About Sake

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Contrary to common misconception, sake is not a distilled alcoholic beverage. Learn more misconceptions about sake in this free video sake guide from a master sake sommelier.

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Video Transcript

Greetings. I'm Beua Timken and I'm a master sake sommelier. I'd like to speak to you a little bit about the history of sake, but first let's get to the present date of the misunderstandings and the misconceptions of sake that we have here in the US and the world abound. Sake is not a distilled beverage. Many people think that it is. Sake, they think is a hard core booze that one must drink piping hot out of small little cups throwing it back one after another or - God forbid - dropping a warm cup of sake into a beer for the famous sake bombs. This is not sake per se. When we talk about the history of sake I will then describe a little bit about where sake came from, where sake is going, but remember one thing, sake is built like beer, but it drinks like wine and you don't have to drink it hot. There's great temperature zones for sake. You don't have to drink it out of small little cups. Sometimes a wine glass works perfectly and a lot of people think that sake is a fad. What I like to tell people is that sake is about a thousand year old fad. We're just catching up to sake right now. So we'll talk about that in this segment and the history of sake.