Specialty lettuce used to brew low-malt beverage in Japanese village

A bottle of "Vegeale Lettuce," a low-malt "happoshu" beer-like beverage brewed with malt, hops and lettuce produced in the village of Showa, Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, is shown on May 28, 2015. Gunma is the third largest lettuce producer in Japan, most of which comes from the village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo