This is funnier with the username but I don’t actually mean to send any hate their way so. Umm soju is NOT!! 14% ABV “like wine.” Soju!! Is!! Liquor!!!
Not to No True Scotsman this but most commercial soju isn’t even soju. They are not distilled liquor they are concentrated alcohol watered down and then flavored with artificial sweeteners. They’re literally cheap imitations of soju.
ABV can vary but I don’t think I’ve seen traditional distillers go below 21%. Kinda hard to go below that when you’re distilling. Generally it’s between 25 and 40 but it goes all the way up to 71.2%.
Soo even the cheap imitations used to be 25%. And then they watered it down some more to 21% and started calling the 25% ones “Classic” or “Original” variants and then these days the “classic” ones are like 20.1% lmaooo.
And they used to be labeled as “distilled soju” (ie soju the way ancestors had intended) and “diluted soju” (aka not!!! soju) but circa 2013 they stopped doing that because “same liquor tax rates apply anyway so who cares” lmao
Anyone who tells you the 16% 참이슬 Fresh is what soju is is a LIAR!! That is watered down ethyl alcohol. #trustme