A town on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido has been working on producing a new local specialty by submerging sake in a brackish lake, in the hope that the vibrations in the water will impact the taste of the alcohol. Following field tests in May, the town of Yubetsu plans on sinking 100 bottles of sake at a depth of around 10 meters in Lake Saroma from late July. The alcohol to be used in the project comes from Kamikawa Taisetsu Sake Brewery, located west of Yubetsu. “We hope that by utilizing the domestically famous Lake Saroma to make sake, it will make our town more widely known…