SHOCHU SOURS/CHUHAI | ALCOHOLIC

Although sake is one of the most well known alcoholic beverages in Japan, there are a few other that are more consumed by Japanese people. After beer, shochu sours/chuhai are the second most consumed in Japan. Depending on the place they can either be called sours or chuhai. It’s an alcoholic drink mixed with shochu (a type of alcohol made from sweet potato, barley, rice, buckwheat and sugar cane) soda water and some kind of flavoring. Common flavoring is lemon juice, grapefruit juice, yuzu, grape juice, umeshu and so on. Typically sours/chuhai range anywhere from 3-8% in alcohol.

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