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Asahi Breweries announced that it will raise the prices of some of its products starting with shipments on October 1, 2022. The products affected include a total of 162 items of beer, RTD (such as shochu high spirits), non-alcoholic beverages, and whisky. “Super Dry” is also subject to the price increase. Of the 162 products10 whisky items The price of Japanese whiskey will be raised by 162 items. Japanese whisky …

Suntory Spirits will release “Ao (SMOKY PLEASURE) ” , a limited edition of its world-blend whisky “Ao”. It is a blend of the world’s five major whiskey brands, centered on peated malt base whisky. It is said to have the strong smokiness of Irish and Scotch, the rounded smokiness of Japanese, and the smoothness of Canadian and American. The release date is June 7, 2022. It will be released in …

Christian Drouin Cask Finish is now available from Single Malt Komagatake. Christian Drouin is a company that has been making apples and top-quality Calvados for generations in the Normandy region of northern France. Everything from apple cultivation, distillation, aging, and blending is done in-house. Mars Shinshu Distillery and Christian Drouin have begun an experiment of exchanging Calvados and whiskey casks and aging them in their respective locations. The single malt …

Crowdfunding for the Hida Takayama Distillery, currently under construction in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, has begun. The crowdfunding started at 11:00 on March 25, 2022, and has made an impressive rocket start, having already succeeded in raising 26,532,000 yen, or 1326% of the target amount of 2,000,000 yen, as of 15:00 on March 30, 2022. Hida Takayama Distillery aims to revive a closed elementary school building as a distillery and …