swap_horiz Sake Alternatives

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Tsukemono

Tsukemono is a broad category of Japanese preserved vegetables cured using salt, brine, rice bran (nuka), miso, or sake...

Traditional Japanese Condiment Lacto Fermented

8.4 Great

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Makgeolli

Makgeolli is a traditional Korean alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice, water, and nuruk, a Korean fermentation s...

Korean Traditional Rice Wine Beverage

8.2 Great

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Umeboshi

Umeboshi are Japanese salt-pickled ume fruits (Prunus mume) that have been a staple of Japanese cuisine since at least t...

Traditional Japanese Vegetable Pickled Plum

8.1 Great

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Nukazuke

Nukazuke is a type of traditional Japanese pickle, or tsukemono, created by fermenting vegetables in a bed of fermented...

Traditional Japanese Probiotic Lacto Fermented

8.0 Great

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Tepache

Tepache is a lightly fermented Mexican drink made from pineapple rinds, water, and piloncillo sugar, with pre-Columbian...

Traditional Beverage Mexican Mildly Alcoholic

7.9 Good

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Amazake

Amazake is a sweet, low- or non-alcoholic Japanese beverage made from fermented rice using Aspergillus oryzae, historica...

Japanese Beverage Sweet Koji

7.9 Good

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Boza

Boza is a mildly fermented grain beverage with a thick consistency and low alcohol content, popular across Turkey and th...

Traditional Beverage Balkan Fermented Grain

7.5 Good

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Chicha de jora

Chicha de jora is an Andean fermented corn beer with origins in the Inca Empire, where it held sacred status and was cen...

Traditional Indigenous Andean Beverage

7.3 Good

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Chicha

Chicha is a traditional fermented beverage indigenous to the Andes region of South America. It is historically prepared...

Traditional Andean Beverage Fermented Corn

7.3 Good

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Tapuy

Tapuy is a traditional Filipino rice wine produced through the fermentation of cooked glutinous rice using indigenous ye...

Traditional Beverage Filipino Alcoholic

7.2 Good

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Dolo

Dolo is a traditional sorghum- or millet-based beer brewed in parts of West Africa, including Burkina Faso. It is common...

Traditional Beverage West African Mildly Alcoholic

7.0 Good

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Tuak

Tuak is a traditional alcoholic beverage produced in parts of Southeast Asia, particularly in Borneo and surrounding isl...

Traditional Beverage Indonesian Palm Wine

7.0 Good

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Togwa

Togwa is a fermented cereal food and drink consumed in Tanzania and elsewhere in East Africa. It is commonly prepared fr...

Traditional Beverage Probiotic Tanzanian

6.9 Fair

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Tuba

Tuba is a traditional alcoholic beverage created by fermenting the freshly collected sap of various palm trees, most not...

Traditional Beverage Philippine Fermented Sap

6.9 Fair

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Calpico

Calpico is the international brand name for a Japanese cultured milk drink sold in Japan as Calpis. It is produced by fe...

Japanese Beverage Sweet Concentrate

6.9 Fair

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Pombe

Pombe is a Swahili term used for traditional fermented alcoholic drinks in parts of eastern and sub-Saharan Africa. Reci...

Traditional Beverage East African Fermented Grain

6.7 Fair

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Umqombothi

Umqombothi is a traditional South African beer made by fermenting maize, maize malt, and sorghum, usually with water and...

Traditional Zulu Beverage South African

6.7 Fair

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Kunu

Kunu is a traditional non-alcoholic cereal beverage associated with Northern Nigeria and consumed more widely across the...

Traditional Beverage Nigerian Fermented Grain Drink

6.7 Fair

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Yakult

Yakult is a sweetened fermented milk drink first produced in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1935 by physician and microbiologist Min...

Japanese Beverage Probiotic Sweetened

6.4 Fair

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Tchoukoutou

Tchoukoutou is a traditional fermented beer made primarily from sorghum and consumed in Benin and other parts of West Af...

Traditional Beverage West African Benin

6.3 Fair