Earthenware jars of r??u c?n, a variety of rice wine made by the E De people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Rice wine is an alcoholic beverage made from rice. Unlike wine, which is made by fermentation of naturally sweet grapes and other fruit, rice "wine" results from the fermentation of rice starch converted to sugars. This process is akin to that used to produce beer; however, beer production employs a mashing process to convert starch to sugars whereas rice wine uses the different amylolytic process.
Rice brew typically has a higher alcohol content (18-25%) than wine (10-20%), which in turn has a higher alcohol content than beer (3-8%).
Handia- Rice beer made after fermentation in Chottanagpur regions of eastern Indian states of Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal (india)Rasi the refined wine of Handia
Ang Jiu - Chinese red rice wine, popular among the FooChow chinese.(Malaysia,China)
A cup of makgeolli, an unfiltered rice wine from Korea
Other types include:
C?m r??u - A Vietnamese dessert consisting of rice balls in mildly alcoholic, thick, milky rice wine
Mirin - Sweetened Japanese rice wine used for cooking
Soju - Korean alcoholic beverage, often mistaken as rice wine, but actually almost always in combination with other ingredients such as wheat, barley, or sweet potatoes
Sh?ch? - a Japanese alcoholic beverage that can be made from rice, although it is more commonly made from barley, sweet potato, or sugar cane
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