Bottles of Dassai 23 sake are seen at Asahi Shuzo Co's facility in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, on July 7, 2022. A Japanese sake maker is going where no sake maker has gone before: space.

Asahi Shuzo, the company behind the sake brand Dassai, has plans to ferment sake on the International Space Station in 2025. When a single bottle returns to Earth, it will be put up for sale at ...