Aamore is native to the beruku islands, which we know as okinaa now. It was invented in the fifteenth century and has fallen on some hard times. Production volumes have been declining for four or five years straight. In large part it's because of the changing tastes of the japanese public.
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his country toward ruin. Its people
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Kherson since early March. We hear a report from the ground about life under foreign occupation. And tasting awamori, a Japanese spirit that distillers may lift from the doldrums simply by
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