Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Caol Ila is, by volume, one of the most important distilleries on Islay. The distillery produces a large proportion of the peated…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Rhum Clément is one of Martinique’s most recognisable rhum agricole brands — a name that appears in serious rum bars worldwide and…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles The most unexpected bottle on Bar Little Happiness’s rum shelf is probably the IE Lab expression made with sansho pepper and iyokan…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles There was a time when Campbeltown, a small town at the end of the Kintyre Peninsula in western Scotland, was the whisky…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Most people who drink Yamazaki think of it as an Osaka whisky — or, more precisely, a Kyoto-adjacent whisky, since the distillery…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles There is a category of whisky story that nobody puts in the marketing materials but that serious enthusiasts tend to find memorable:…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles There is a category of distillery that does extraordinary work without ever achieving the name recognition of its output — the “supporting…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Togouchi is Hiroshima’s other whisky story — different from Sakurao in almost every way, but equally specific to this part of Japan.…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles The 20th anniversary of Ichiro’s Malt carries a particular emotional weight for everyone who has followed Japanese whisky over the past two…
Written by Mika Tanimoto, Owner-Bartender, Bar Little Happiness — Hiroshima’s specialist whisky & rum bar with 1,000+ bottles Sakurao Distillery’s Visitor Center Limited expressions are not widely distributed — they are sold exclusively at the distillery in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, and…