Shochu is a distilled spirit; it is most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potatoes, or rice.
You can enjoy potato shochu, buckwheat shochu, rice shochu, black sugar shochu and more.
Shochu can be drunk in many ways according to season or personal taste: neat, on the rocks, diluted with water, diluted with hot water, mixed with oolong tea or fruit juice or as chuhai; a mixed drink consisting of shochu, soda, ice and some flavouring – often lemon, grapefruit, apple or ume (plum).