Rice wine

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Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage made from rice. Unlike wine, which is made by fermentation of naturally sweet grapes and other fruit, rice "wine" results from the fermentation of rice starch converted to sugars. This process is akin to that used to produce beer. However, beer production employs a mashing process to convert starch to sugars whereas rice wine uses the different amylolytic process.

Rice brew typically has a higher alcohol content (18-25%) than wine (10-20%), which in turn has a higher alcohol content than beer (3-8%).

Some types of rice wine include:

Amazake - low-alcohol Japanese rice drink
Brem - Balinese rice wine
Cheongju - Korean rice wine

Beopju - a variety of cheongju

Choujiu - A milky glutinous rice wine popular in Xi'an, China
Gamju - A milky, sweet rice wine from Korea
Lao-Lao - A clear rice wine from Laos
Lihing - Kadazan rice wine (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
Makkoli - a milky traditional rice wine indigenous to Korea
Mijiu or Lao-zao - a clear, sweet Chinese rice wine/liqueur, usually being served as a dessert in southern China, made from fermented glutinous rice
Raksi - Tibetan and Nepali rice wine
Rượu cần - Vietnamese rice wine drunk through long, thin bamboo tubes
Rượu nếp - Sweet, milky Vietnamese rice wine made from sticky rice
Sake - Japanese rice wine
Sato - A rice wine originating in the Isan region of Thailand
Sonti - Indian rice wine, also known as hadia in the state of jharkhand (india)
Tuak - Iban rice wine (Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo)
Ang Jiu - Chinese red rice wine, popular among the FooChow chinese.(Malaysia,China)

Other types include:

Cơm rượu - A Vietnamese dessert consisting of rice balls in mildly alcoholic, thick, milky rice wine
Mirin - Sweetened Japanese rice wine used for cooking
Soju - Korean alcoholic beverage, often mistaken as rice wine, but actually almost always in combination with other ingredients such as wheat, barley, or sweet potatoes
Shōchū - a Japanese alcoholic beverage that can be made from rice, although it is more commonly made from barley, sweet potato, or sugar cane
Snake wine

External links

Foreigners' Experiences With Baijiu - Baij.tv

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