...A distilled alcoholic beverage native to Japan. "Yaki" means to heat, and "chu" means to brew, i.e., a strong alcoholic beverage that has been remade. Starches from rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, and other ingredients are saccharified with koji (malt) and fermented with yeast, and the resulting mash, or the sake lees left over after squeezing the mash, are distilled in a single still. This is the traditional shochu, and under the current Liquor Tax Act, shochu with an alcohol content of 45% or less is called shochu class B. In contrast, shochu class A is a type of alcoholic beverage made from agricultural products such as molasses, which is fermented with alcohol, and high-purity alcohol is extracted using a continuous still, which is then diluted with water to reduce the alcohol content to 36% or less. *Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "kasutori" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…日本在来の蒸留酒。〈焼〉は加熱の意,〈酎〉は重醸,つまり,つくりかえした濃い酒の意である。米,麦,サツマイモその他のデンプンをこうじ(麴)で糖化するとともに酵母で発酵させ,そのもろみ,またはもろみを搾ったあとの酒かすを単式蒸留機で蒸留する。これが在来の焼酎で,現今の酒税法ではこうしてつくられたアルコール分45%以下のものを焼酎乙類と呼ぶ。これに対して,糖みつなどの農産物を原料としてこれをアルコール発酵させ,連続式蒸留機を用いて高純度のアルコールをとり,これを水でうすめてアルコール分36%以下にした酒を焼酎甲類と呼んでいる。… ※「粕取」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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