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Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, and we visited one to see how mugicha is made

With barley tea going into glasses as the weather heats up, we find out what goes into making barley tea.

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Fukuoka schools struggling to get kids to switch from milk to tea in lunches

Debate over which drink fits lunches to a T.

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We try a half-drunk bottle of tea that’s been sitting on the balcony since last summer 【Taste test】

Can we tempt you with some vintage 2022 tea?

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Japan’s barley soda is so weird in so many ways, yet so right in one 【Taste test】

So this morning, my boss asked me if I wanted to do a taste test of a new drink that just went on sale in Japan. I figured this was a pretty sweet assignment to snag for the day, and not just because at that same moment my boss was having some of the other RocketNews24 writers strip down to their underwear and pose for pictures as part of another project, which I would then have an excuse to sidestep.

See, the taste test was of a new carbonated barley-based beverage, and since beer is one of the wells I go to as a writer, I assumed my boss was talking about the world’s most popular alcoholic beverage. But nope, it turns out that there’s now barley soda in Japan, so I was off to the store to try some of this drink that’s devoid of alcohol but surprisingly full of mystery.

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