Beverage
Hon-Mirin
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Hon-mirin is the hyphenated romanization of the same fermented sweet rice wine as hon mirin—the spelling you see on many export labels, tax documents, and grocery shelves. If the ingredients are glutinous rice, koji, and shochu (or the Japanese legal equivalent) and the alcohol is in the wine range, you are buying hon mirin, hyphen or not. Read past the hyphen. Hon-mirin-fu and aji-mirin are still the syrup. Do not pay hon-mirin prices for a bottle that lists glucose first. In this catalogue the hyphenated name exists so a labelled bottle matches a variety page.
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Export labels hyphenated hon-mirin so non-Japanese shoppers would see a single product name.
Customs and retail systems treated Hon-Mirin as the SKU spelling beside 本みりん.
Online recipes mixed hon mirin and hon-mirin; both meant the fermented wine when the ingredients were honest.
Shoppers still needed the hyphenated page to avoid hon-mirin-fu lookalikes.