Shōchū (Japanese: 焼酎) is a Japanese distilled beverage. It is typically distilled from rice, barley, sweet potatoes, buckwheat, or brown sugar, though...

honkaku-shōchū include Imo-jōchū (芋焼酎), shōchū distilled from sweet potatoes, Mugi-jōchū (麦焼酎), distilled from barley, and Kome-jōchū (米焼酎) distilled from rice. Another...

liqueur made by steeping ume plums (while still unripe and green) in liquor (焼酎, shōchū) and sugar. It has a sweet, sour taste, and an alcohol content of...

Chūhai (チューハイ or 酎ハイ), an abbreviation of "shōchū highball" (焼酎ハイボール), is an alcoholic drink originating from Japan. Traditional chūhai is made with barley...

gift to the shogunate prior to 1671, but it was recorded as shōchū (焼酒 or 焼酎) in earlier records. Several explanations exist for the etymology of the word...

the Brittany region of France and in the United States. Buckwheat shōchū (焼酎) is a Japanese distilled beverage produced since the 16th Century. The taste...

(1688–1704) of the Edo period (1603–1867), a brewing method called hashira jōchū (柱焼酎) was developed in which a small amount of distilled alcohol (shōchū) was added...

traditional Chinese: 燒酒), more commonly known as báijiǔ (白酒), and Japanese shōchū (焼酎), with the altered second character, have the same origin as soju. Another...

way of using it as follows: Shōchū should be kōrui shōchū (or shōchū kōrui, 焼酎甲類), which is distilled two or more times, and should contain 25 percent alcohol...

more commonly known as Baijiu (白酒), a 56–130 proof Chinese liquor Shōchū (焼酎), a 40–70 proof Japanese liquor Soju (소주/燒酒), a 33.6–106 proof Korean liquor...