Tag Archives: Hanyu
New Release of Ichiro’s Malt Card Series
Ichiro Akuto recently announced the release of 4 additional expressions to his much acclaimed Card Series. The Card Series are from the now closed Hanyu distillery. As you can see the labels will be different from previous releases with different … Continue reading
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Breaking New Ground With A Classic Touch: Chichibu’s Ichiro Akuto (Part 2)
This is the second part of our interview with Akuto San. You can read the first part here. WhiskyWall: You are growing your own barley, sourcing local peat and growing Mizunara trees. Is it your goal to make a … Continue reading
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Breaking New Ground With a Classic Touch: Ichiro Akuto (Part I)
The craft distillery movement has been gathering a lot of steam lately. It has definitely hit here in the Northern California, with the likes of St. George, Charbay, Old World Spirits and Low Gap. Although larger, one can make an … Continue reading
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Ichiro Releases a Blend
Ichiro Akuto (Hanyu and Chichibu) has released a blended whisky. This is different from his normal single cask releases from Hanyu and Chichibu that we have come to expect. There is a blend of Hanyu and Chichibu as well as … Continue reading
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Ichiro’s Malt Card 3 of Hearts (Hanyu)
This is one of the whiskies that we tried at our Japanese whisky tasting in April. An interesting expression of the now closed Hanyu distillery – stocks are now being stored at Ichiro’s new Chichibu distillery location. 3 of Hearts … Continue reading
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Whisky Tasting – Japanese Malts
April 21st marked the third Thursday of the month and that meant it was whisky tasting time again! In March we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with some Irish malts. In April we decided to go in another direction with some … Continue reading
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Some “New” Hanyu
Just a quick hitter here. Ichiro Akuto has for some time been slowly releasing his stocks of Hanyu, mostly in the form of the popular card series. Well this week saw a release of four more “cards”. Hanyu is in … Continue reading
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Ichiro’s Five of Clubs
This dram was generously provided by the fine folks at the Master of Malt. The Master of Malt provides a great service that allows you to purchase whisky by the dram instead of having to invest in a whole bottle. … Continue reading
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A Couple of New Japanese Releases
Nothing ground breaking but nevertheless interesting. I got caught up in the release of the Yoichi 20 year Vintage that I forgot to mention that the Miyagikyou 20 year vintage is also being released. Similar to the Yoichi release except … Continue reading
