The tour also includes visits to koji mold producers and rice fields, providing a holistic understanding of sake production from grain to glass. In the shochu tour, top bartenders and bar managers ...

Bottles of awamori being prepared for sale in an Okinawa distillery. Christopher Jue Today, it’s the pursuit of the indigenous spirit awamori that sets me on my way. Born here more than six ...

Now, Japanese overseas as well as Japanese government are looking to promote Awamori, an alcoholic beverage indigenous to Okinawa. Awamori is a distilled spirit, made of Thai-mai (long grain rice ...