Departs from Kanegazakicho! "Barcage Aged ONI no amaro KZ" is a herb liquor made from Iwate rice shochu and Japanese ingredients.

ONI no amaro KZ, a herb sake with a huge impact on the label of the Onikenbai, a traditional performing arts that is passed down mainly in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture Kanegasaki Medicinal Sake Brewery manufactures liqueurs derived from various plants in Kanegasaki Town, Iwate Prefecture .

We tried out what kind of alcohol is in the genre of herbs that are not commonly known to us!

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"Amaro" is a liqueur native to Italy

"Amaro" "bitter" in Italian and is considered to be the general term for liqueurs with a traditional "bitterness" that have been made mainly in Italy.

The alcohol content is approximately 16-40% (depending on the brand), and is made by soaking various herbs, roots, bark, spices, etc., which are used as ingredients in spirit, extracting the flavor, and after aging it is adjusted with sugar.

an aperitif that stimulates appetite with its "bitterness" an after-dinner drink that promotes digestion , and when replaced by Japan, it may be positioned as a Yomeishu.

The name "Amaro" is not very familiar, but it seems that "Campari" and "Aperol" are also a type of Amaro. Thinking about it like that, many people may have drunk it as a cocktail.

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"ONI no amaro KZ" is a purely Japanese amaro

"ONI no amaro KZ" is made by replacing the Amaro method with Japanese ingredients, and the base spirit is rice shochu from Iwate Prefecture, and various herbs include ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, and sardine wormwood, mainly Japanese plants such as black letters, shiso, yellowfin and chrysanthemum flowers.

The raw liquor thus produced is aged in American whiskey barrels, and the barrel aged adds a mellow, sweet aroma like vanilla or honey.

The unique flavor of herbal liqueurs is clearly differentiated between rock and straight, but the moderate bitterness and a refreshing plant-based drink made me think that if you add lots of ice and divide it into soda, it will be a great drink in the hot summer.

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Kanegazaki Herbal Sake Brewery, a domestic herbal liqueur factory

Kanegazaki Herbal Sake Brewery handles ONI no amaro KZ , is a sake brewing division business of KSP Co., Ltd., the company's operating body, and manufactures a variety of liqueurs.

In addition to Amaro, we also manufacture a wide variety of Japanese botanical liqueurs, including "Waka," a "Tea Sake Kuwanokida 30," which uses Saragi Kuwataya and Ise Hojicha .

KSP Herb Farm the company's agricultural division , operates herb gardens that grow approximately 50 different herbs that are used as ingredients for these liqueurs, and they carry out everything from raw materials to liqueur production in-house.

Kanegazaki Herbal Sake Brewery <Information>

• Name: Kanegazaki Herbal Sake Brewery (KSP Co., Ltd.)
• Address: 30 Nishine Shimokuwanokida, Kanagasaki-cho, Izawa-gun, Iwate Prefecture, 029-4503
• Phone number: 080-4510-4636
• Official URL: https://www.kspyakusou.com/

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