Sound real smart at the bar after just reading these Features. From how whiskies are made to how rums are marqued. We know high school Chemistry wasn't fun, so we'll try to keep things light and interesting.
Special Features
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Zanpa & Uminokuni Awamori: A Rice Spirit Born From A 600-Year Old Romance Between Thailand & Okinawa
Okinawa isn’t really Japan. Well, not at least until the sands of 1879 when the Japanese empire reached out to grasp the independent Ryukyu Ki... -
Suntory Time Forever! Here Are The Whiskies We Tried At Suntory's 100th Anniversary Celebration!
Editor: We'd like to thank Stefan van Eycken for providing us invaluable context and interesting anecdotes about Suntory's history and distilleries... -
4 Simple Steps to show you Appreciate Japanese Saké
Nobody knows how Saké came to be. According an eighth century text, The Chronicles of Japan, Saké was instrumental in saving Japan from an enormous... -
The Japanese Spirit More Popular than Saké and Whisky: Shochu / 焼酎
Some of the Japanese spirits that you haven't heard of (Hiroharu Itaya,"Night procession of one hundred demons" circa 1820) The world is familia... -
There’re few things more Japanese than rice whisky
Flavour isn't only thing that matters about whisky. If you purchased a bottle of “Japanese whisky”, you would, quite rightly so, expect the whis...
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