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Asian & More

Every asian & more page in the Academy — written from primary sources, linked to bottles you can actually buy.

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A brown ceramic bowl of milky white makgeolli on a plain white surface.Level 2Korean and Other Rice Wines Makgeolli, yakju and cheongju: Korea's brewed rice drinks, made with nuruk and recognized as national heritage in 202... Traditional wooden baijiu still and cooling tub on a distillery floor, with mud-sealed fermentation pits behind.Level 2Baijiu China's grain spirit, made by solid-state fermentation with qu and sorted by aroma: strong, light, sauce and rice, ea... A cedar-ball sugidama with straw rope and white paper streamers hanging outside a sake brewery.Level 2Sake Japan's brewed rice drink: rice, koji and water, graded by how far the rice is polished, and protected as a GI since ... A blue-and-white porcelain bottle with two footed ceramic cups and a wooden bowl on a wooden table.Level 1 · Start hereAsian and Other Spirits Sake, shochu, soju, baijiu, Korean rice wines and Nordic aquavit: the drinks built on mold starters, and the caraway ... A green glass bottle with no visible label pouring soju into a small glass held in a hand.Level 2Soju Korea's clear spirit: pot-distilled from rice since the Goryeo era, diluted into the green bottle in the 20th century... Rows of sweet potato plants in a field in Ibusuki, Kagoshima, with the cone of Mount Kaimon behind.Level 2Shochu Japan's koji spirit, distilled once so it tastes of sweet potato, barley, rice or brown sugar; awamori is its Okinawa... A stemmed glass of pale golden aquavit between a plate of cured salmon and a block of brown Norwegian cheese.Level 2Aquavit Scandinavia's caraway-and-dill spirit, defined by EU law at 37.5 percent minimum; Norway's GI version is potato-based...

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