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Wide green grain field with the Tokachi mountain range on the horizon

INGREDIENT — 麦

Malted for beer and whisky; made into koji for shochu.

Photo: pakku / CC BY 3.0

OVERVIEW

Malted barley supplies the sugar for beer and whisky. Barley shochu uses barley as koji and as its main ingredient.

  1. 1Barley field — pakku · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons