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A 25% distilled soju made from sweet potato distillate (100% Yeoju sweet potatoes).
About this drink
Yeoju sweet potatoes are trimmed one by one and fermented. Once fermentation is complete, the lees are strained out and the sweet potato distillate is drawn off by atmospheric-pressure distillation in a copper still.
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 sweet potato distillate (100% Yeoju sweet potatoes), purified water (per government open data)
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The brewer
Sulawon is a brewery in Jeombong-dong, Yeoju, Gyeonggi, that brews mainly gwahaju. It began when CEO Kang Jin-hee, who had learned home brewing (gayangju), released four seasonal Sula gwahaju in 2014, and the brewery was founded in 2015. It keeps to the gwahaju method of adding spirit it distills itself to fermenting yakju to stop the fermentation and then aging it at low temperature, and it uses glutinous rice from Yeoju. It was selected as a “Visiting Brewery” in 2021, and in 2025 Gyeongseong Gwahaju Oak won the grand prize at the Gyeonggi Liquor Awards.
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