You maybe familiar with sake, but have you heard of  Shochu or Awamori? Sake is a brewed rice wine. Shochu and Awamori are distilled liquors, often using rice, sweet potatoes or barley. Shochu and Awamori have higher alcohol content and drier taste then that of traditional sake. The brewing of sake requires colder temperatures to brew.  In the southern areas of Japan and Okinawa, the batches used to make sake, would often spoil during