Chita Distillery

Its main column still has 4 columns, runs 24 hours a day for months once started, and makes heavy, medium and clean types by using different columns.^3,4,5 It has 2 continuous stills for grain whisky and 12 fermenting vessels, called washbacks.⁷ It has no warehouses, so its new spirit ages at Suntory's Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries and its Omi ageing cellar.^4,5,7 The newer still, a Coffey still, began full operation in July 2022 and tends to keep more of the grain's flavour than the earlier continuous still.^1,6,7

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