PURPOSE: To obtain a saccharified liquid of young bamboo useful as pharmaceuticals, health drinks, seasonings, etc. by decomposing the stalks of young bamboo with an enzyme or an acid, and to prepare yound bamboo liquor having desirable taste and flavor and useful as a health liquor and medical liquor by the alcohol fermentation of the above saccharified liquid.

CONSTITUTION: Young bamboo such as madake bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides), moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla), etc. is divided into small pieces by a proper means, and decomposed with an enzymatic agent having at least cellulase activity or with an acid such as hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, sulfonic acid, etc. The resultant liquid is filtered or centrifuged to obtain clear saccharified liquid. The liquid is sterilized with heat, added with separately cultured yeast, and fermented at about 30°C for 3W4 days to obtain young bamboo liquor having an alcohol content of 4W8%.