Single Malt Whisky, 'Ichiro's Malt, Single Cask #9137 - Coopers Torch'

• Single cask single malt Japanese whisky distilled by Chichibu Distillery in Saitama, Japan
• Cask #9137
• Distilled from 100% unpeated malted barley
• Fermented 100 hours in mizunara oak washbacks
• Double distilled in Forsyths copper pot stills
• Aged 8 years in a first-fill bourbon barrel
• Limited US release of only 182 bottles
• Notes of vanilla, honeycomb, and orange zest on the nose transition to a palate of buttered shortbread, yellow plum, caramelized malt, cinnamon, and toasted oak with lingering citrus
• No added coloring
• Non-chill filtered; bottled at a cask strength of 64.2% ABV

Boiler is part of a series of single cask releases from Chichibu Distillery named for crucial pieces of machinery used throughout the whisky-making process, featuring labels that use color and waveforms to visually represent that process. Named for the torch used by the distillery’s own cooperage to toast and char their barrels, this release spent eight years in one of the most iconic examples of the charring process: a first-fill bourbon barrel.