Kaiyo Cask Strength Mizunara Oak Whisky Casa D'Aristi and more chocolatey than your

and more chocolatey than your typical - unmalted - rye whiskey

and finished with Icelandic birch syrup

Based on a 19th century recipe

and help give the bitters its balanced richness

Kaiyo Cask Strength Mizunara Oak Whisky Casa D'Aristi and more chocolatey than yourKaiyo, which translates to Ocean, is a fascinating endeavor in aging. After an initial, land based stint aging, this whiskey spends three months ocean aging before being returned to port in Japan and aged further before bottling. Kaiyo is aged in Mizunara Oak, a rare and expensive Japanese variety of very porous oak. Because the trees grow crooked, they need to be around 200 years old before they will make a barrel. Japanese whiskies are almost never