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To come up with this ranking of the best soju flavors, I went to two liquor stores in Koreatown and grabbed a bottle of every single soju flavor available. I came back home with a total of 9 ...
Soju is generally inexpensive; a typical bottle costs about ₩1,800, less than US$1.65 (convenience store standards). [49] It typically has an alcohol content of 40 proof (20 percent alcohol by volume). [50] In the 13th century, during the Goryeo dynasty, Mongol invaders brought soju (known as araki) with them. [51]
Soju (English pronunciation: / ˈ s oʊ dʒ uː /; Korean: 소주; Hanja: 燒酒) is a clear and colorless distilled alcoholic beverage, [1] [2] [3] traditionally made from rice, but later from other grains and has a flavor similar to vodka. [4]
Tōkki Soju is a brand of soju founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2016 by master distiller Brandon Hill. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company prides themselves on quality over profit, using expensive ingredients that contribute to taste such as glutinous rice.
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The name "Chamisul", meaning "dew" in Korean, was created by Son Hye-won, the representative of Cross Point to represent the dew on the bottles of cold soju. It is also the Korean-reading of the hanja Jin-ro ( 眞 露 ), the name of the company.
The name suggests that the rice wine retains its flavor after the hot and humid summer, due to the fortification (addition of soju). [ 1 ] Regional varieties of gwaha-ju are called by their own regional names such as gangha-ju ( 강하주 ; 薑荷酒 ), sinseon-ju ( 신선주 ; 神仙酒 ; lit.
A bottle of Chamisul soju. Jinro is the largest manufacturer of soju accounting for half of all white spirits sold in South Korea. [6] Soju accounts for 97% of the category. Global sales in 2013 were 750 million bottles; the second-largest spirits brand, Smirnoff, sold less than half that number.