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Hi,...
markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:
> When I was in Japan a couple years ago I was introduced to a drink
> called a "chu-hai." (At least I think that's what it's called, every
> time I described it to someone, they told me a different name for it.

    Chu-hai, yes.  It's very popular drink in Japan now.

> Anyway, as near as I can tell, it's made with shochu, fruit juice and
> some tonic water. They go down like Seven Ups. You don't notice the
> alcohol until you try to stand up, then it is VERY clear that you
> weren't drinking 7-ups. I liked them. Maybe a little too much! (*^;^*)

    Yes, shochu --- sprits made from potatos, or oats, or some other
grains --- is cheap traditional drink in Japan for a long time, but
it's strong, so someone has think up of mixing them with tonic water
and fruit flavor and named it chu-hai.  Since then there was a kind
of chu-hai boom in Japan (about 10 years ago?), and now it's very popular.
Cheap, but strong (if you mix enough shochu).

    Near my house is a company which produce bottles of tonic water with
various fruit flavor (lemon, plum, apple, orange, ...) added, so that
simply mixing them with shochu will result in chu-hai.  It's very easy.
But I recently found that mixing lime-flavored one with some gins will
produce gin lime :-)

    Mark, I guess you can find shochu somewhere around.  Tonic water
and fruit juce (or fresh lemon/lime/...) are even more easyer to get.
Then, you can easily enjoy chu-hai.  Why not?

							    Yasushi Kuno