Alcoholic beverages

The category of Japanese alcoholic beverages includes sake, a fermented alcohol made from rice and often drunk hot or cold, shochu, a spirit distilled from various ingredients such as barley, sweet potato or rice, umeshu, a sweet liquor made from Japanese plums (ume) macerated in alcohol and sugar, awamori and Japanese whisky.

Subcategories

Non-alcoholic

Japanese soft drinks are a wide range of unique soft drinks, characterised by delicate, natural or sometimes very...

Gin

Gin from Japan represents a high-quality artisanal liqueur that blends European juniper tradition with botanical...

Liqueur

Liqueurs from Japan can be traditional or contemporary, generally made by infusing fruit or natural ingredients in...

Rum

The rum produced in Japan is a distillate made from sugar cane, which combines traditional Western practices,...

Sake

Sake is a Japanese alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice with water and koji spores. Although it is called...

Shochu

Shōchū is a spirit originating in Japan, obtained by distilling barley, sweet potatoes or rice.

Umeshu

Umeshu is a Japanese liqueur obtained by macerating ume, or still unripe and green plums, in alcohol, with the...

Whisky

Japanese whisky is an alcoholic beverage obtained from the distillation of grains. The production of whisky follows...