a beer made with less malt by weight than the percentage required to be officially labelled as “beer”, as defined by the Japanese tax code (and thus avoiding the higher taxes on official “beer”)

Kyūjitai form of 麦酒 (“beer”)

apple cider (alcoholic); apple liquor

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a small amount of alcohol / a small drink of an alcoholic beverage

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(informal) cheap, low-quality alcohol

liquor store

love of alcohol

miscellaneous alcohol, alcoholic beverages other than sake (日本酒) / (law, taxation) a product containing alcohol but not itemized in any of the main categories of alcoholic products in Japanese tax law