Orchid Sake Brewery is Singapore’s first sake brewery

For such an esoteric form of drink-making, it almost feels fitting that Singapore’s first sake brewery is in one of the most ulu locations I could think of. It took my colleagues and me a $40 Grab ride to get to the desolate Jurong Food Hub, and the journey lasted a painful 45 minutes. But any motion sickness built up on the way was eased by one fact: we were about to get absolutely smashed with Japanese rice wine fit for Shinto gods.

The folks from Orchid Sake Brewery wasted no time in fetching us from where we dropped off, and soon we were made aware of why the whole place smelled strangely of… fish. As it turns out, we were right next to Jurong Fishery Port, and the building we were in was packed with seafood distributo...