From Kanegasaki Town! "Barrel-aged ONI no amaro KZ" is a medicinal herb liquor made with Iwate rice shochu and Japanese ingredients

The barrel-aged herbal liqueur "ONI no amaro KZ" features an eye-catching label featuring a demon mask from "Onikenbai," a traditional performing art passed down mainly in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture Kanegasaki Herbal Brewery , which produces a variety of plant-based liqueurs in Kanegasaki Town, Iwate Prefecture .

We tried out herbal liquor, a type of alcohol that is not very familiar to the general public, to see what it's like!

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Amaro is a liqueur native to Italy

"Amaro" "bitter" in Italian , and is a general term for traditional bitter liqueurs that have been made mainly in Italy.

The alcohol content is approximately 16-40% (depending on the brand), and is made by steeping various herbs, roots, bark, spices, etc. in spirits to extract flavor, and then adjusting the sugar content after aging

In Italy, it an aperitif , and an after-dinner drink digestion. In Japan, it might be considered a drink similar to Yomeishu.

The name "amaro" may not sound familiar, but drinks commonly found in liquor stores, "Campari" and "Aperol," are also types of amaro. Many people may have tried it in cocktails.

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"ONI no amaro KZ" is a purely Japanese amaro

"ONI no amaro KZ" is made using the same amaro production method but with ingredients sourced in Japan. The base spirit is rice shochu from Iwate Prefecture, and the various herbs include Japanese plants such as black moji, shiso, phellodendron amurense, and chrysanthemum flowers, as well as ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, and mugwort.

The resulting raw spirit is then aged in American whiskey barrels, which adds a mellow, sweet aroma reminiscent of vanilla and honey

The unique taste of herbal liqueur is something that people either love or hate when drunk on the rocks or straight, but its moderate bitterness and refreshing botanical taste make it the perfect drink for a hot summer day if mixed with lots of ice and soda

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Kanegasaki Herbal Liqueur Factory

Kanegasaki Herbal Brewery which produces ONI no amaro KZ , is the brewing division of its parent company, KSP Co., Ltd., and produces a variety of liqueurs.

In addition to amaro, we also produce a variety of Japanese botanical liqueurs, "Wabana," "Tea Liqueur Kuwanokida 30," which uses Saraki mulberry tea and Ise roasted green tea .

Furthermore, the company's agricultural division, KSP Herb Farm , operates a herb garden where it grows around 50 different types of herbs that are used as ingredients in these liqueurs, and the company handles everything from raw material production to liqueur production in-house.

Kanegasaki Herbal Sake Brewery <Information>

• Name: Kanegasaki Herbal Brewery (KSP Co., Ltd.)
• Address: 30 Nishine Shimo Kuwanokida, Kanegasaki-cho, Isawa-gun, Iwate Prefecture, 029-4503
• Phone number: 080-4510-4636
• Official URL: https://www.kspyakusou.com/

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