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Japanese whisky is a style of whisky developed and produced in Japan.Whisky production in Japan began around 1870, but the first commercial production was in 1923 upon the opening of the country's first whisky distillery, Yamazaki.
Soba shōchū is a similar but weaker beverage produced in Japan. Liquor produced from the distillation of buckwheat honey is also sometimes sold as buckwheat whisky or whiskey, though technically this is a type of distilled mead .
Habushu (ハブ酒) is an awamori-based liqueur made in Okinawa, Japan. Other common names include Habu Sake or Okinawan Snake Wine. Habushu is named after the habu snake, Protobothrops flavoviridis, which belongs to the pit viper subfamily of vipers, and is closely related to the rattlesnake and copperhead. [1] Like all vipers, Habu snakes are ...
Hibiki Japanese Harmony (700ml) and Hibiki 17 years old (50ml) Hibiki (Japanese: 響) (meaning "resonance" [1] or "echo") is a premium blended whisky produced in Japan by Suntory Global Spirits, a subsidiary of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd, which itself is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan. [2] [3] It has won several awards. [4]
Bottled awamori displayed in a shop. Awamori owes its existence to Okinawa's trading history. It originates from the Thai drink lao khao. [8] The technique of distilling reached Ryukyu Kingdom, today's Okinawa, [9] from the Ayutthaya Kingdom (roughly present-day Thailand) in the 15th century, a time when Okinawa served as a major trading intermediary between Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.
Kohei Kirimoto, an 8th-generation lacquerware artisan, walked through the ruins of his century-old workshop in the Japanese coastal town of Wajima on Thursday, concerned only for his missing cats.
Shōchū is widely available in supermarkets, liquor stores, and convenience stores in Japan while canned chuhai drinks are sold in some of Japan's ubiquitous vending machines. However, it is more difficult to find shōchū outside Japan except in urban areas with large enough Japanese populations. Interest in shōchū has begun to grow in ...
Sake bottle, Japan, c. 1740 Sake barrel offerings at the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachimangū in Kamakura Sake, saké (Japanese: 酒, Hepburn: sake, English: IPA: / ˈ s ɑː k i, ˈ s æ k eɪ / SAH-kee, SAK-ay [4] [5]), or saki, [6] also referred to as Japanese rice wine, [7] is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran.