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Japan also drop the e. Japanese whisky is quite interesting though, some of the stuff is completely out there (eg using seaweed as flavouring) and other stuff c
by pushpop 7y ago
Japan also drop the e. Japanese whisky is quite interesting though, some of the stuff is completely out there (eg using seaweed as flavouring) and other stuff could be mistaken for being a scotch. I seem to recall reading that a lot of Japanese distilleries were trained in Scotland.
Last year I had a bottle of whisky from India which I’m pretty sure also dropped the e. That too was a lovely drink and could easily have been mistaken for scotch.
- steve19 7y agoA lot of Japanese Whisky isn't even from Japan. https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/19680/not-all-japanese-whisky-is-japanese-whisky/ https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/19680/not-all-jap...
- tptacek 7y agoI hear this said a lot, but is there an example you can think of of a mainstream Japanese whiskey --- a Nikka or Suntory, for instance --- that isn't 100% Japanese spirit? There's Akashi, but the controversy there is that it's not 100% whiskey, not that it isn't 100% Japanese.
- steve19 7y agoI think the trouble lies in the quantity of aged whisky Japan is exporting. They did not have a lot of whisky production 25+ years and so it is simply not possible for them to be bottling this much whisky from 25 year old Japanese casks. I hate to link to Bloomberg but this article is pretty good: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/that-expensive-japanese-whisky-may-be-mostly-scotch https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/that-expe...
- porknubbins 7y agoThat was really interesting thanks, did not know that. I like a glass of Yamazaki on the rocks but to me Japanese whiskies have always been a little too smooth and balanced to enjoy neat anyway, compared to a lot of Scotch whiskys which have more character and more rough edges.