A unique shochu that is sure to be pleasing for beer lovers in particular gekkeikans bizan meaning beautiful mountain barley shochu is made by fermenting barley wheat with rice koji the culture used to make japanese alcohols and slowly distilling and aging it over low temperatures this results in a soft dryish and light bodied shochu with faintly yeasty aromas solid pastry dough and starfruit flavours and a breezy finish with accents of radish and pear type barley based shochu arom