Taste your way in to the Guiness Book of World Records with Ichiro Akuto.

Posted on September 18, 2007
Filed Under ASIA, Event, For the collector, Whisky Fun, WhiskyBuzz |

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The Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival is coming up this weekend. And Ichiro Akuto, grandson of Isouji Akuto who founded the distillery Hanyu, will lead you and many more in a trial to set a new World Record in mass tasting.

The world record tasting will be held at the Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival now on Friday the 21th at 19.30.

The company Toa Shuzou, owned by the family Akuto, who had brewed Sake in the city of Chichibu since the middle of the 16th century, decided 1941 to distill alcohol. The city of Hanyu, northwest of Tokyo was chosen for the new distillery. After some years of making Shochu - Japanese aquavit, Hanyu in 1980 bought two pot-stills and started the production of whisky. Then 1990, after some years of making blended whisky, Hanyu launched the single malt Chichibu. Sadly, only 10 years later the distillery first had to be shut down, and then was demolished.

Ichiro Akuto grandson of Isouji Akuto who founded Hanyu, luckily was able to buy the remaining stock of casks. Since then his bottlings has drawn a lot of attention.

Now Ichiro has started to assemble the old distilling equipment. It’s reported that he has picked a new site and is in the midst of building a new distillery.

Head over to good friend Chris at Nonjatta for an extended story on Hanyu and Ichiro Akuto.

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One Response to “Taste your way in to the Guiness Book of World Records with Ichiro Akuto.”

  1. Japanese whisky on September 27th, 2007 2:08 pm

    Sounds interesting.(By the way I have just posted about the Taiwanese whisky Ikusa you wrote about in Feb)

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