WATER SHAPES THE DRINK
Does water shape the drink?
Mashing, rice washing, dilution — water is the first ingredient of every drink. But "this water, therefore this taste" is a claim no one can make.
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Saitama, in the Kanto region. On record: Japanese Whisky.
Regional context image (photographed in an unrecorded location)Photo: Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
REGIONAL CONTEXT
A great plain, a great city, and the water around it.
Home to Japan's largest plain and the capital region. Rivers from the northern and western mountains water the plain, and makers of many kinds work close to the city.
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All image credits →- 1Japanese cedar forest — Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons