The bar will pop Taiwanese beers and mix cocktails with Taiwanese sorghum liquor, known as kaoliang, into the night.

Kinmen officials are scrambling to reinvent the island's economy, seeking to increase exports of its famously strong kaoliang liquor.

Noon found him asleep in the fields of kaoliang, that giant millet growing twelve feet high which is so dense that one may become lost in its golden tangle.

Kavalan sells best in Taipei and worst in the more traditional south, where drinkers favor kaoliang wine, a spirit made from fermented sorghum.

The kaoliang is a sort of sorghum, the grain being used for food, while the stalks, which contain but little sugar, are used for fuel.