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Kamui Whisky K.K.'s Founding Story. Documenting Japan's most northern, most remote craft whisky startup.
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From Outsider to Insider: A Month at Rishiri Distillery (opens the original)
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👋 Hey, I’m Casey. When I’m not overwhelmed or down with the flu, I’ll share the story of building our single malt Japanese whisky distillery on the remote island of Rishiri in Japan’s far, frozen North. It’s raw and elemental. Our stories are too. This week, the distillery was framed by a rainbow1:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!57Ye!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
Our story, in four films, by someone we did not hire (opens the original)
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👋 Hey, I’m Casey. When I’m not overwhelmed, which is rare, I’ll share the story of building our single malt Japanese whisky distillery on the remote island of Rishiri in Japan’s far, frozen North. It’s raw and elemental. Our stories are too.Today is our first guest post ever. From Mac, a key, wonderful, and original part of the whisky eco-system in Japan. I’d seen Mac at events, with his big personality, and camera, and frankly, being shy, I was intimidated. But, somehow through a series of circ
Malady of the Soul (opens the original)
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“Addiction is a malady of the soul.”The insight from one of the speakers at the intense rehab center I recently visited during a family day. It came from a man who had earned the sentence the hard way, years of addiction and then a much slower, multi-year build back. He went on. “Addiction, alcohol abuse, drug abuse: that’s the symptom. The malady is underneath.”This summer I was back in Texas, home visiting family for a few weeks. For a couple of those days I went to support my brother at his r
A Festival from the Edge (opens the original)
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Put the last Saturday in June 2027 on your calendar: June 26th, 2027. That's the next time we will have the Kamui festival, our 5th.This fourth year of hosting the festival was special, in that it was our first public tasting of our aged whisky. And, dang, was there a line! In Rishiri, at our remote location, lining up to get the first tastes. A line that lingered for a while. Was kinda amazing. Our team really have made something that people want.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hre
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