Japan is home to a variety of whiskies and people who love them, and there are several distinctive cocktails made with ...

The grain-to-glass whiskey concept ... number of new distilleries in Japan. For many years, there were basically two main companies that shared the whisky market there: Suntory and Nikka.

The soda water, likewise may be served from a special machine in Japan that can ... pour your malt whisky. Give it a couple gentle stirs along the outside of the glass with your bar spoon.

And it chimes against the glass.” With a long metal ... followed by a liquor tax, sent the whisky industry into a 25-year free fall. Distilleries across Japan closed; by 2000, only seven were ...