Craft sake in Japan serves up fizzy and funky flavors

Sparkling varieties also catch on as brewers evolve with changing tastes

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Sake Baby is a fizzy, yogurt-like beverage offered at Sendai Station Brewery Fermenteria in northeastern Japan. (Photo by Seiya Ota)

SEIYA OTA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Craft and sparkling sake are putting a new twist on the drink for both Japanese millennials who don't like the taste of their grandfather's rice wine and the growing number of international visitors to Japan.

Part of the new wave of sake was on display at a small craft brewery inside Sendai train station in northeastern Japan. The shelves were lined with see-through containers in various stages of fermentation.

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