Alcohol alchemy: Unsold beer reborn as craft gin

Japanese brewery spirits away pandemic-hit pubs' liquid waste problem

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Kiuchi's brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, is turning itself into a gin distillery.

NAOTO SHIMAZAKI, Nikkei staff writer

MITO, Japan -- As the coronavirus pandemic keeps customers away, and bars and restaurants are having to dispose of their draft beer, a brewery in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, has come up with a recycling scheme to keep all those suds from going to waste.

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