happoshu
Sign in to saveAlso known as low-malt beer
thumb|Various in a shop , or low-malt beer, is a tax category of Japanese liquor that most often refers to a beer-like beverage with less than 67% malt content. The alcoholic beverage is popular among consumers for having a lower tax than beverages that the nation's law classifies as . Although the label is most frequently found on low-malt beer or beer-like products, alcopops that contain malt are also categorized as .
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, happoshu is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to beer in Japan, Japan and Japanese.
Vinony files it under Japanese alcoholic beverages and Types of beer.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- beer style
- Subclass of
- beer in Japan
- Image
- Cans of beer on Japanese discount store.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- commercialization date
- 1950-00-00
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Brands
- See also
- References
thumb|Various in a shop , or low-malt beer, is a tax category of Japanese liquor that most often refers to a beer-like beverage with less than 67% malt content. The alcoholic beverage is popular among consumers for having a lower tax than beverages that the nation's law classifies as . Although the label is most frequently found on low-malt beer or beer-like products, alcopops that contain malt are also categorized as .
== Overview == Japan's alcohol tax system divides beer-like malt beverages into four categories based on malt content: 67% or higher, 50 to 67%, 25 to 50%, and less than 25%. An alcoholic beverage based on malt is classified as beer if the weight of malt extract exceeds 67% of the fermentable ingredients. Since Suntory's introduction in 1994 of ''Hop's Draft'', containing 65% malt, a market has emerged for low-malt, and recently, non-malt beer substitutes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “happoshu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.