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Japanese distillery drinking up plaudits as its craft whisky proves a hit Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ On display: Several of Venture Whisky Ltd.'s award-winning Ichiro's Malt whiskies are displayed at the company in Saitama Prefecture. | KYODO Kyodo Feb 24, 2021 Riding the craft whisky boom at home and abroad, a small distillery north of Tokyo is boosting production to meet a growing demand for its world-renowned and award-winning Ichiro’s Malt p...

Japanese Whisky Finally Gets A Definition, But It’s Complicated A worker at Akkeshi Distillery in Hokkaido, Japan checks the spirit safe, positioned beneath a Shinto shrine. A new set of voluntary regulations will, for the first time, provide a definition for Japanese whisky. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) It’s been an open secret for years that some Japanese whiskies aren’t so Japanese—that is, they’re often made with imported whisky, blended or proofed down or simply bottled locally, and then labeled as “Product of Japan.” Many such brands exist, though typically not openl...

Feb 19, 2021 What is Japanese whisky? Despite its meteoric rise on the global connoisseur market, until this week that question was more complicated to answer than you might expect. Unlike bourbon and Scotch — born of the United States and Scotland, respectively — the preferred brown spirit of Japan carried no actual denomination of origin. As long as the liquor was bottled within the country, it could be sourced from anywhere on the planet. “To say that whisky-making regulations in Japan are loose is a major understatement,” Stefan van Eycken, author of “Whisky Rising: The...

Japan Finally Gets Rules About Japanese Whisky Photo: TORU YAMANAKA / Staff (Getty Images) Kotaku EastEast is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. Advertisement Compared to Scotch and bourbon, the regulations regarding Japanese whisky have been lax at best. There has long been ambiguity about what exactly makes Japanese whisky ‘Japanese’. The technique is not originally Japanese (though there have been some interesting innovations in Japan), the grain is typically (but not a...