Gawajitakju
A 7.5% makgeolli brewed with ipguk (rice koji).
About this drink
Within Gawajitakju's signature heavy texture, you can pick up fresh fruit aromas such as banana, pear, grape skin and melon.
Description source: Traditional Liquor Information, Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (Public Data Portal of Korea)
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How it's made
Fermented from yeast, ipguk (rice koji), Gawaji rice (per government open data)
The brewer
Baedari Doga is a small brewery in Gajwa-dong, Goyang, Gyeonggi. It was founded in April 2022 under a new license by Park Sang-bin, fifth generation of a brewing family that began selling home-brewed liquor in Wondang in 1915, together with his two sons. It brews makgeolli by the samyangju (triple-brewed) method using only 100% Goyang Gawaji rice, named after the 5,020-year-old Gawaji rice seeds, plus purified water, yeast and ipguk. Instead of an automatic stirrer, the father and two sons take turns stirring the fermentation tanks.
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