Hornsey, Ian Spencer (2003). Lịch sử của Bia và Sản xuất bia rượu. Hiệp hội Hóa học Hoàng gia. ISBN0-85404-630-5. on p.30: ... sake is pasteurized and it is interesting to note that a pasteurization technique was first mentioned in 1568 in the _Tamonin-nikki_, the diary of a Buddhist monk, indicating that it was practiced in Japan some 300 years before Pasteur. In China, the first country in East Asia to develop a form of pasteurization, the earliest record of the process is said to date from 1117.
