Where to Explore Japan’s New Wave of Craft Sake — and the Breweries Behind It

Where to Explore Japan’s New Wave of Craft Sake — and the Breweries Behind It

Among Japan's sake makers, a delicious revolution is brewing.Credit: Manaturu Brewery, Fukui Prefecture/Monica SamuelsRain swept across the winter-gold rice fields of Japan's Kanto plain, 100 miles north of Tokyo. It was right after the Lunar New Year, an auspicious time for ceremonies, and we huddled under umbrellas as a Shinto priest intoned before a shrine laden with offerings: carrots, oranges, rice cakes, a whole fish. He was asking for suc…