
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.
Drinks
- Hitachino Nest BeerKiuchi Brewery (Hitachino Nest Beer)
- Yona Yona AleYo-Ho Brewing
- Ise Kadoya Pale AleIse Kadoya Brewery (Nikenjaya Mochi Kadoya Honten)
- Minoh StoutMinoh Beer
- Minoh Pale AleMinoh Beer
- Fujizakura RauchFujizakura Heights Beer (Fuji Kanko Kaihatsu)
- Fujizakura WeizenFujizakura Heights Beer (Fuji Kanko Kaihatsu)
- The Yamazaki Single Malt WhiskySuntory Yamazaki Distillery
- Single Malt YoichiNikka Whisky Yoichi Distillery
- Single Malt KomagatakeMars Komagatake Distillery (Hombo Shuzo)
- Ichiro's MaltVenture Whisky Chichibu Distillery
- iichikoSanwa Shurui (iichiko)
- Mugi Shochu IkiGenkai Shuzo
Drinks are grouped by their category's basic ingredients or an officially stated main ingredient.
PHOTO CREDITS
All image credits →- 1Barley field — pakku · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons