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Far Yeast Brewing is pleased to announce that at the Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition 2024 (TWSC 2024),announced on Thursday, May 30, 2024, five of our innovative spirits-making challenge brand “Off Trail –We are pleased to announce that five products from our innovative spirits brand “Off Trail – Azeotrope” (Azeotrope)won in the Western Sake category [Japanese Gin] at the Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition 2024 (TWSC2024), which was announced on Thursday.
About Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition (TWSC)
A competition of whisky, spirits, shochu, and other spirits products that started in 2019.
Planned and managed by the Institute of Whisky Culture, it is one of the largest competitions in Asia and the only one of its kind in Japan, with over 300 Western liquor and shochu experts from all over Japan judging the competition through blind tastings.
For this, the fourth edition of the competition, we began accepting entries in the fall of 2021, and a total of 241 judges judged the competition remotely from February to May 2022.
Click here for the judging results of the Tokyo Whiskey & Spirits Competition 2024 (TWSC2024).
About the award-winning products
Japanese Gin Silver Award in the Western Sake category:
Off Trail – Azeotrope Beer Distilled Gin Sansho Punch New Pot
Sansho grape is the main ingredient, with juniper berry, coriander, yuzu, elderflower, and a variety of other botanicals adding color. While inheriting the malt aroma from the original beer, this beer has a punchy flavor that spreads with a fresh aroma and stimulation, like that of biting into fresh sansho (Japanese pepper).
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Silver Award in the Western Sake category [Japanese Gin]:
Off Trail – Azeotrope Beer Distilled Beer Distilled Gin Sansho Punch Aged With Oak
An ethical Beer Distilled Gin made with oak chips soaked in the highest Gold Award winning “Beer Distilled Gin Sansho Punch New Pot”, it has a refreshing flavor with a variety of botanicals such as juniper berry, coriander, yuzu, elderflower and grape sansho from Wakayama Prefecture as the main ingredient. The refreshing flavor of the craft gin is created by adding a variety of botanicals, including juniper berries, coriander, yuzu, and elderflower, to the main ingredient, Wakayama grape sansho.
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Western Wine Category [Japanese Gin] Silver Award:
Off Trail – Azeotrope Dew of Bergamot
Azeotrope Dew of Bergamot is a gin made by upcycling lost beer that is about to expire into a gin after two distillations in a single distillation process. Bergamot is used as the main botanical. The soft sweetness of the malt-derived malt and the citrus bitterness of the bergamot complement each other to create a gorgeous and refreshing craft gin.
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Bronze Award in the Western Sake category [Japanese Gin]:
Off Trail – Azeotrope Malt Gin Distiller’s Choice “beta
Off Trail – Azeotrope Malt Gin Distiller’s Choice “beta” is a blend of two carefully selected barrel-aged malt gins. One was distilled twice in pot stills at the Braeckman distillery in Belgium, which has a history of over 100 years, and aged for 25 months in red wine barrels. The second was distilled twice in pot stills at a domestic distillery and aged for 18 months in bourbon barrels. For botanicals, juniper berry, yuzu, and sansho were used to create a cool and accented aroma. The keynote of the top note is the powerful aroma from the red wine barrel aging. By blending with punchy bourbon barrel-aged base alcohol, we were able to create a finish that offers complexity and a lingering finish.
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Bronze Award in the Western Sake category [Japanese Gin]:
Off Trail – Azeotrope Malt Gin Distiller’s Choice “gamma
This product is a blend of two types of gin aged in whiskey barrels for 32 months, one with wild, fresh botanicals and a hint of oak, the other with the sweetness of vanilla and honey from the aging process, and the overall balance of the two was determined. The ratio of these blends was determined to make it easy to drink while retaining the impression of the botanicals. In addition to juniper berries, yuzu and sansho (Japanese pepper) are used as botanicals to add a cool and spicy flavor.
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Two other products from Copperworks Distilling Company, an American micro-distillery handled and sold by our company, also won Gold Awards in the Western Whiskey category (American Whiskey/Single Malt).
Gold Award in theWestern Distilled Spirits category [American Whiskey/Single Malt]:
Copperworks American Single Malt Whiskey Release 044
Gold Award in theWestern Wine category [American Whiskey/Single Malt]:
Copperworks American Single Malt Whiskey Release 045
For more information about Copperworks Distilling Company, click here.
We willcontinue tofocus on the development of unique products and deliver them to as many people as possible.
What is Off Trail – Azeotrope?
Off Trail – Azeotrope was born in October 2021 as a craft spirits brand that crosses over between beer and spirits. As a derivative brand of Off Trail, an advanced beer brewing project that utilizes microorganisms and barrel aging methods, Azeotrope is taking on the challenge of creating innovative spirits, liqueurs, and other products. Focusing on Geneva-style spirits, in which malt-derived spirits are barrel-aged, the brand aims to bring a new wind to the spirits realm by utilizing the fermentation and barrel-aging know-how cultivated in the beer brewing industry. Azeotrope” refers to the phenomenon of “azeotrope” in which two liquids with different boiling points are mixed in a certain ratio and boil together while maintaining their compositional ratios. The name “Azeotrope” is an image of the symbiosis between beer and spirits, which is our main area of business. .
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