Japanese Rice Alcohol
Typically shōchū contains 25 alcohol by volume which.
Japanese rice alcohol. Commonly called sake outside of japan nihonshu or sake note that sake is also the general japanese term for alcohol is brewed using rice water and koji mold as the main ingredients. The alcohol content of nihonshu is typically about 10 20 percent. For the japanese the traditional rice beverage means the same that wine does for french cuisine.
Sake also spelled saké ˈ s ɑː k i ˈ s æ k eɪ sah kee sak ay also referred to as japanese rice wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran despite the name japanese rice wine sake and indeed any east asian rice wine such as huangjiu and cheongju is produced by a brewing process more akin to that of beer where starch is.
