Juiced Action

• Sake's faint flavors mix well with both fruit and vegetable juices. A simple fruit juice and sake mixed drink is the rising sun, which is a variation on a tequila sunrise -- fill a collins glass with ice, then add 4 parts each sake and orange juice and 1 part grenadine. A good sake and vegetable juice cocktail is a bloody maru, which substitutes sake for vodka in a bloody Mary: Mix sake with tomato juice, hot sauce, horseradish and spices, or add a shot to your favorite bloody Mary mix.

Mixed Up

• Sake also acts as a strong base for different types of bar and drink mixes including sour and pina colada mixes. One sour mix and sake cocktail is the kabuki, which is 4 parts sake, 2 parts each sour mix and triple sec and 1 part sweetened lime juice; the Mount Fuji, another option, comrises 4 parts each sake and sour mix and 1 part triple sec. A more adventurous sake cocktail is the white mountain, a blended drink with equal parts sake, half-and-half and pina colada mix.

Low Threshold

• Low-proof alcoholic beverages like beer and fortified wine also go well with sake in mixed drinks. One of the most familiar sake-based drinks is the sake bomb, which is a shot of 1 part sake dropped into 6 parts Japanese beer. Both sweet and dry vermouths, which are fortified wines, are ingredients in many sake-based cocktails, including the haiku -- a shot of sake and a splash of dry vermouth served up -- and the Ginza strip -- a martini with 1 shot of sake and a few dashes of both bitters and sweet vermouth.

High Octane

• Liquors like gin and vodka mix well with sake for some tasty cocktails. Gin and sake cocktails include the saketini, which is 1 part sake and 6 parts gin chilled and served up; and the Hokkaido cocktail, which is 1 part triple sec, 2 parts sake and 3 parts gin. Vodka also blends well with sake in drinks like the Osaka dry, a variation of the saketini in which vodka substitutes for the gin; and plum saketini, which is 2 parts each pineapple juice and plum-flavored vodka and 1 part sake chilled and served up.