Reviews of Everything Nice

  I have come to think that the producers who sit at the forefront of South Korea’s craft sool revival tend to do three key things at once. (1) Th...

  For centuries, brewing in Korea happened right at home. Until industrial production of makgeolli became widespread in the 1970s, nearly every ho...

  In a modest fermentation room in Sunchang, a mountainous county famous for its Korean chili paste (gochujang), earthenware jars sat bundled in t...

  Korea's national drink Makgeolli and Soju (which together are collectively known as Sool, which is a broad catch-all term for Korean alcohol, al...

Japan has sake, China has mijiu, but South Korea has makgeolli. It seems like every East Asian culture has its own variation of rice wine, refl...