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Thats me on the extreme left with my colleagues at a pub / restaurant in Sakai, a small town in Japan. we tried the japanese drink sake that night. a little trivia i picked on the net.
Made from rice, "Sake" is an alcoholic beverage peculiar to Japan. The Japanese Liquor Law defines Sake as, "made from rice, rice koji and water using fermentation and filtration processes". This is a definition in principle and refers to the traditional type of Sake peculiar to Japan. In 1944 during World War II, Japanese Sake manufacturers started adding alcohol in the process of Sake brewing in order to add volume to their Sake production. This addition of alcohol was to make up for the shortage of Sake, caused by the decrease in the amount of rice grown during the war. In short, all Sake can be divided into two groups: that with added alcohol, and that made with rice only.
We had the one with alcohol in it ( tee hee hee ) .
cheers.