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I was looking at a bottle of sake I had been given. It had a 60% on it and I
wondered what it meant:

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> [![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYJ8gm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYJ8g.jpg)

I ran it through the Google Translate for images - and it gave me this:

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> [![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LHGOhm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LHGOh.jpg)

In regard to the 60% - Google Translate gave me "rice milling commission 60%".

I don't feel any more informed. Do the rice millers get 60% of the profits of
the bottle sales?

My question is: **What is the rice milling commission on sake?**
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translation meaning usage food terminology
What is the "rice milling commission" on sake?
精米歩合 refers to the ratio of white rice to the original brown rice. (If you
polish 100kg of brown rice until you have 60kg of white rice, then your 精米歩合
is 60%.)

(This has nothing to do with "commission".)
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Its has to do with the 'rice polishing ratio which is one way of categorizing
sake:

<http://www.nymtc.com/Japanese-Sake/Learning-About-Sake_Rice-Polishing-
Ratio.html>
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