Did you know today is also #WorldSakeDay?! 🍶 • The drink was first documented for Westerners in a 1603 Japanese-Portuguese dictionary (“saqe”) • Sake is brewed, not distilled, and it is not in fact “rice wine,” despite common misconceptions • Sake is brewed in all of Japan’s 47 prefectures • It can be enjoyed warm, hot, chilled, cold or at room temperature • At the end of the 19th century Hawaii experienced a sake boom, with one Honolulu paper exclaiming, “the Hawaiians think it fine to get drunk at so cheap a cost,” and another, “[Sake] is the drink of the future.”