Friday, June 5, 2015

Rice wine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_wine

Some types of rice wine are:

  • Luk Lao - rice wine of the Tai Ahoms of Assam. Which can be preserved for years. It attains red color when aged (around 6 months).
  • Yu (Sekmai Yu, Andro Yu and other variants) - A transparent rice wine from Manipur
  • Ang Jiu - Chinese red rice wine, popular among the FooChow Chinese (Malaysia, China). The red color is derived from iron in the red yeast rice, the traditional yeast culture made from wild yeast in the city of Foochow, the capital of Fujian Province, where this style of rice wine originated, and the ancestral origin of many overseas Chinese in the Pacific islands.
  • Ara - Bhutanese rice, millet, or maize wine
  • 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
  • Huangjiu - A Chinese fermented rice wine, literally "yellow wine" or "yellow liquor", with colors varying from clear to brown or brownish red.
  • Kulapo - A reddish rice wine with strong odor and alcohol content from the Philippines
  • Lao-Lao - A clear rice wine from Laos
  • Lihing - Kadazan rice wine (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
  • Makgeolli - a milky traditional rice wine indigenous to Korea
  • Mijiu - a clear, sweet Chinese rice wine/liqueur made from fermented glutinous rice.
  • Pangasi - Rice wine from Mindanao in the Philippines.
  • Raksi - Tibetan and Nepali rice wine
  • Rượu cần - Vietnamese rice wine drunk through long, thin bamboo tubes
  • Sake - A rice wine from Japan. The most widely known type of Rice wine in North America because of its ubiquitous appearance in sushi restaurants.
  • Sato - A rice wine originating in the Isan region of Thailand
  • Sombai - Cambodian infused rice wine with sugar cane, fruits and spices still inside the bottle
  • Shaoxing - A rice wine from Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China, probably the best known Chinese rice wine
  • Sonti - Indian rice wine
  • Tapuy - Clear rice wine from the Mountain Province in thePhilippines
  • Tapai - Kadazandusun rice wine (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo)
  • Tuak - Dayak rice wine (Kalimantan, Indonesian, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo)
  • Cholai - A reddish rice wine from West Bengal, India
  • Hariya -A white/watery rice wine of Indian austric tribes.
  • Thi- Kayan rice wine,served in a clay-pot with a straw to sip (Kayah State, Myanmar).

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