Habu sake (which is actually awamori alcohol mixed with herbs, honey, and a big snake) is a liquor that came to Japan from China, where the snake is known for its medicinal properties, Habu Sake is good for back problems and arthritis becau...se it has 19 amino acids beneficial to humans, and also the snake poison dissolved in the alcohol gives to this liquor some special properties.
To make habu sake or Snake wine you need a habu which is a snake specie found in Japan that must be put on ice until it is half-asleep, then you must drain of all it's blood and sew it up.
Afterwards the snake will wake up and finish its life in an attacking position that a lot of habu manufacturers look for when they subsequently throw the habu in a nice ethanol bath to preserve it.
The habus are left to soak for a month and then transferred to a 59% alcohol mix for 40 days before being placed in a 35% awamori.
In Japan the beverage is awamori and when it has a yummy poisonous pit viper in it it’s called habushu (literally, poisonous East Asian pit viper liquor).
To make habu sake or Snake wine you need a habu which is a snake specie found in Japan that must be put on ice until it is half-asleep, then you must drain of all it's blood and sew it up.
Afterwards the snake will wake up and finish its life in an attacking position that a lot of habu manufacturers look for when they subsequently throw the habu in a nice ethanol bath to preserve it.
The habus are left to soak for a month and then transferred to a 59% alcohol mix for 40 days before being placed in a 35% awamori.
In Japan the beverage is awamori and when it has a yummy poisonous pit viper in it it’s called habushu (literally, poisonous East Asian pit viper liquor).
