I purchased cognac bottle

[maks]

do they have any local bourbans

[internutt]

do they have any local bourbans

1. i am an alcoholic honestly so i try my best to at least avoid strong liquors
2. bourbon is basically any distilled liquor made with around 50% corn and 50% other grains that is oaked to some degree.

asians (mostly) don't do the oaking thing, and ive finally gotten used to it. the oaking must be done at strength ranges from 50% up to 90% to get those different flavours and tannins we enjoy in oaked distillate (smoke, cherry, almond, vanilla, etc). there are some very few sojus that are "oaked" and i havent bothered trying because im certain they dont do it at those alcohol percentages and it will end up just literally tasting like... wood.

that aside, my favourite distilled alcohol in the world nowadays is japanese shochu. Korea restricted production of alcohol legally to the biggest conglomerates with complete bullshit rules on minimum production sizes and stuff. Japan did the opposite and his hundreds and hundreds of tiny shochu producers (sake too), and that has spawned awesome variety and competition over quality.
sweet potato soju is fucking awesome. it's distilled just once at best, so it's simply one flavour step down from sweet potato wine, but with the crispness and clarity of a distilled drink (25% abv)

the single bottle of imo shochu i can find in my city is 27 bucks.

muh well distilled, unmessed with pure rice shochu is $4.50. so i get that a lot.