What is the "rice milling commission" on sake? I was looking at a bottle of sake I had been given. It had a 60% on it and I wondered what it meant: > ![]( I ran it through the Google Translate for images - and it gave me this: > ![]( 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?**

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 is 60%.)

(This has nothing to do with "commission".)