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BREWMASTER COFFEE LIQUEUR

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TSUTSUMI · Tsutsumi Shuzo · Kuma, Kumamoto · EST. 1878

BREWMASTER COFFEE LIQUEUR

杜氏が淹れた珈琲

Dark-roast coffee beans are infused slowly in honkaku rice shochu, drawing out pure aroma and bitterness with restrained sweetness.

Coffee liqueur

CategoryCoffee liqueur
OriginKuma, Kumamoto
BaseHonkaku rice shochu
SignatureDark-roast coffee infusion
ABV8%
Volume720 ml

How it is made

Extracting coffee through a brewer’s infusion craft

Its character comes from the way the main ingredient meets the base spirit. Two choices are central to the result.

01

Selecting dark-roast beans

The beans provide roasted aroma and a clear bitter structure.

02

A long infusion in rice shochu

Alcohol draws out the coffee slowly and lays it over the clean rice-spirit base.

The result

Dark coffee, measured sweetness and clean bitterness

Freshly ground roast aroma leads into gently sweet coffee, with clear bitterness and a light finish.

Taste profile

Dark coffee, measured sweetness and clean bitterness

Dark coffee, measured sweetness and clean bitterness

Freshly ground roast aroma leads into gently sweet coffee, with clear bitterness and a light finish.

Food affinities

Where dark-roast coffee meets the after-dinner table

These pairings are not combinations stated officially by the producer; they are a reading drawn from the characteristics recorded on this product page.

Freshly ground roast aroma meeting chocolate and nutsChocolate brownie and other nut-forward Western desserts align with the roast aroma, alongside Thai coconut-sesame griddle cakes (khanom krok) and Japanese walnut mochi.
Gently sweet coffee meeting dairy richnessTiramisu and other dairy-rich Western desserts align with the gently sweet coffee character, alongside Thai custard cake with condensed milk (khanom mo kaeng) and Japanese brown-sugar pudding.
Clean bitterness tightening rich after-dinner sweetsPecan pie and other rich Western desserts align with the clean bitterness that tightens sweetness, alongside Thai mango sticky rice and Japanese red-bean monaka wafers.
A light finish sitting alongside gentle after-dinner sweetnessVanilla panna cotta and other lightly sweet Western desserts align with the light finish, alongside Thai coconut custard (sangkhaya) and Japanese dorayaki.

This pairing rationale draws on the following reference books: “Food Pairing Encyclopedia” records coffee’s aroma as sharing a family with chocolate, vanilla and roasted nuts; following the harmony concept in “Logical Pairing,” coffee’s clean bitterness can work to rebalance the five basic tastes against the weight of a rich after-dinner sweet.

Pairing guide — Umeshu

The producer

Tsutsumi Shuzo in Kuma, Kumamoto

Tsutsumi Shuzo is based in Kuma, Kumamoto. For this liqueur, it brings ingredient selection and established production craft together in a distinctly Japanese expression.

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