Japanese alcoholic beverages

thumb|Sake bottle, Japan, thumb|Sake barrel offerings at the Shinto shrine Tsurugaoka Hachimangū in [[Kamakura]]

is a Japanese distilled beverage. It is typically distilled from rice, barley, sweet potatoes, buckwheat, or brown sugar, though it is sometimes produced from other ingredients such as chestnut, sesame seeds, potatoes, or even carrots.

thumb|Different chūhai canned drinks from Japan right|upright|thumb|A can of lemon flavored "Chu-hi" with complimentary peanuts attached to the top

overview of beer in Japan

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 .

or kuchikami no sake is a type of sake, rice-based brewed alcohol, produced by a process involving human saliva as a fermentation starter. Kuchikamizake was one of the earliest types of Japanese alcoholic drinks. Kuchi means "mouth", kami means "to chew" and zake is the rendaku form of "sake" found in compound words.

is a Japanese alcoholic drink consisting of heated sake, sugar, and a raw egg.