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n. A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

"This means two things: seriously soggy people and homemade ume shu -- lumps of rock sugar and tart ume steeped in shochu -- and maybe ume boshi if you're a fanatical Japanese Martha Stewart type."

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