Archive for July, 2010
Figure 1. Jinro Chamisul Original Introduction Korea has a long and proud heritage of making alcoholic beverages, called soju (소주), from rice, but in recent years, rice has been substituted by other starchy products such as potato, sweet potato, tapioca, wheat or barley (Wikipedia, 2010). Jinro (진로), a distiller in South Korea, was founded in [...]
Figure 1. Horoyoi Shiroi Sawaa Introduction Suntory, a Japanese beverage company known for its gritty whiskey and premium malt beer, introduced its first “liqueur” to the domestic market on March 9th (Tuesday), 2010. Christened “Horoyoi Shiroi Sawaa” (ほろよい白いサワー) (literal translation: Slightly tipsy white sour), this mildly alcoholic beverage (3.0%ABV) is advertised as “horo-amai, horo-umai” (slightly [...]
Figure 1. Gosser Beer Introduction Austria evokes images of mountains, Mozart and The Sound of Music, but it is not globally renowned for its beer varieties and production, which may suggest that Gosser’s claim that Gosser Beer is ‘Austria’s finest beer’ may lack substance in the beverage world. Gosser Beer (Gösser Bier) is a premium-strength [...]
Introduction Arsenalnoe Strong (АРСЕНАЛЬНОЕ КРЕПКОЕ) has only recently arrived on the shelves of New Zealand supermarkets, although this emergence may have occurred earlier in other locations. Arsenalnoe is a Strong lager-style beer (7.0% ABV) produced by the Baltika breweries in various locations throughout Russia (see Baltika website) and is available in sizes ranging from 0.5 [...]
