Sake
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Sake (Japanese|酒}}; pronounced 'sa.kɛ' Listen (info • help)) is a Japanese word for "alcoholic drink". In English, "sake" means one kind of alcoholic drink made from rice. In Japan, people call this drink nihonshu (日本酒 "Japanese alcohol") or sake. This article uses the word "sake" as it is used in English.
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Sake is also called "rice wine". Sake has as much alcohol as wine, but it is not made from grapes, and it is made in a way more like beer than wine. There are also other kinds of rice wine that are not the same as nihonshu.