The Tiger Edition is Ki One with the volume turned up, a richer, more powerful expression of the Namyangju distillery’s already distinctive house style. Founded in 2020 as Korea’s first single malt distillery, Ki One has never been content to simply imitate Scotch or Japanese whisky. Instead, founder Bryan Do and Master Distiller Andrew Shand have built their identity around long fermentation, copper pot distillation, careful cask work, and the flavors they see as fundamentally Korean: spice, fermentation, fruit, and intensity. This 2025 Tiger Edition is the first in the distillery’s annually released limited cask strength series, bottled at 54.3% ABV without added color or chill filtration. Made from 100% unpeated malted barley, fermented for a minimum of 120 hours, and double distilled on Forsyths copper pot stills, it spends at least four years in a combination of red wine and sherry casks. The result is deeply fruited and layered, with concentrated dried fruit, honey, butterscotch, dark chocolate, raisin, syrupy red fruit, and Ki One’s driving spice profile. Awarded Double Gold at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, this is decadent, polished, and full of energy, a modern Korean single malt with real bite.