Camper English, the San Francisco-based cocktails and spirits writer, has posted a review of “Drinking Japan” on Alcademics.com:

There is a lot of great information about the alcohol categories and how each of the types mentioned is produced. There are 16 pages of descriptions of sake’s history and production before he gets to the bars in which to drink it, for example.

I learned a ton about shochu and awamori in particular, but I picked up new information in every alcohol section.