What is Shochu?

Shochu is distilled liquor, similar to brandy and vodka. However sake is categorized as fermented liquor putting it in the same category as wine.

Grapes are both fermented to make wine and distilled to make brandy. In Japan, rice can be fermented to make sake, or distilled to make rice Shochu. Before sake became famous in west, it sometimes used to be referred to as "rice wine" in acknowledgement of the resemblances between wine making and sake making.

The most popular shochu in Japan is Kurokirishima (黒霧島), which is made by Kirishima brewery, Miyazaki.
It is a shochu that is always found at restaurants, supermarkets, and convenience stores.
This time we will focus on Kurokirishima.
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