Chūhai (Shōchū Highball) Recipe
Clean, low-strength shōchū stretched with soda and a squeeze of lemon — the crisp, easy-drinking staple of the Japanese izakaya.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 7%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Shōchū60 ml
- Soda water120 ml
- Fresh lemon juice15 ml
How to Make It
- Fill a tall glass with ice.
- Pour in the shōchū and the lemon juice.
- Top with well-chilled soda water.
- Stir once from the bottom up and drop in the lemon wedge.
Garnish
A lemon wedge
The Story
The name is a contraction of 'shōchū highball'. It spread through Tokyo's izakayas around the middle of the twentieth century and became a national drink from the 1980s onward, when canned versions in every imaginable fruit flavour reached the shops.
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