Sula Gukhwaju
A 15% distilled soju made from Korean glutinous rice.
About this drink
Sula restores gwahaju, a traditional Korean liquor in which two liquors meet to create a new one.
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 Korean glutinous rice, nuruk, dried chrysanthemum flowers, distilled spirit, 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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