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Saga佐賀県
Barley grown, malted and distilled inside one prefecture.
5 bottles here · 1 producer · Mugi (barley)
Saga is a small producer with an unusual argument: barley shochu where every ingredient comes from within the prefecture, grown on farms near Imari, and distilled in Arita, the porcelain town.
The Saga bottles in this catalogue are also unusual in using black koji for a barley shochu, where the Oita style uses white, and in being bottled at 35 percent rather than 25. Both choices are aimed at cocktails: more structure, more aroma, and enough alcohol to survive ice and a mixer.
Producers here
- Munemasa Shuzo5 bottles · Official site
A producer is linked only where a page on their own domain was read while researching one of their bottles. The rest have no link rather than a guessed one.