Assertion: sake's alcohol | /r/CapableOf | increase the yield
Facets:
value: by as much as four times
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: As early as the late 17th century, it had been discovered that small amounts of alcohol could be added to sake before pressing to extract aromas and flavors from the rice solids, but during the war, pure alcohol and glucose were added to small quantities of rice mash, increasing the yield by as much as four times.