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Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu 2021 US Edition
In 2007, Ichiro Akuto, the grandson of the founder of the Hanye Distillery, started a new chapter in Japan’s whisky history by building Chichibu Distillery. Situated in Saitama prefecture around 79km northwest of Tokyo, production began in February 2008. Equipment includes a small mill, a mash tun, washbacks made of Japanese Oak, and a pair of small copper pot stills manufactured by Forsyths of Scotland. Several different cask types are used including bourbon barrels, sherry butts, and hogsheads, all matured in the unique nature of Chichibu.
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Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu Single Malt Year Of The Dragon
Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu Ema, Year Of The Dragon Single Malt Japanese Whisky was aged for 7 years and bottled in 2022 at 64.1% Alcohol By Volume. No caramel color added. Non-chill filtered.
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Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu Single Malt Year Of The Rabbit
Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu Ema, Year Of The Rabbit Single Malt Japanese Whisky was aged for 5 years and bottled in 2022 at 64.1% Alcohol By Volume. No caramel color added. Non-chill filtered.
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Ichiro’s Single Malt Whisky Year Of The Ox
Ichiro’s Single Malt Japanese Whiskey Year Of The Ox was aged for 6 years and bottled in 2021 at 64.1 ABV.
Cask Type: Bourbon BBL
Variety of barley: Concerto
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Ichiro’s Single Malt Whisky Year Of The Tiger
Ichiro’s Single Malt Japanese Whisky Year Of The Tiger was aged for 7 years and bottled in 2021 at 62.1 ABV.
Cask Type: Shiga Kogen IPA
Variety of barley: Concerto
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Ichiro’s Malt Chichibu The Peated 2022
It all started some three centuries ago when the first of Ichiro Akuto’s forefathers began making alcoholic beverages in Saitama Prefecture. His Grandfather began making whisky in the mid 1940’s with Hanyu Distillery, whose focus on malt whiskies took off with the Japanese economic boom of the 1980’s. However, when the bubble burst in the 1990’s, so too did the first Japanese Whisky boom, leading to Hanyu, like several other distillers, shuttering their doors. He saved the old inventory of Hanyu and released the playing card series. A slow start in the early 2000s now unicorn whisky, the stuff of legend. With the success of the playing cards Ichiro saw that the revival was imminent and in 2008 he built his current distillery in Chichubu. Chichubu distillery where Ichiro, a 21st century whisky maker embraces the heritage and heart of the Scotts balanced by the precision of the Japanese and the shokunin philosophy.