はっぽうしゅ

Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of はっぽうしゅ – see the following entry.
発泡酒
[noun] a beer made with less malt by weight than the percentage required to be officially labelled as “beer”, as defined by the Japanese tax code (and thus avoiding the higher taxes on official “beer”)
(This term, はっぽうしゅ (happōshu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)