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SLEEPY BEAR 22 bottle illustration

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SLEEPY BEAR · SATSUMA SHUZO · KAGOSHIMA

SLEEPY BEAR 22

SLEEPY BEAR

The original SLEEPY BEAR 22 begins with a honkaku sweet-potato shochu matured in cask for twenty-two years. It is a liqueur so that its deep amber colour and cask aroma can remain in full view, without turning the product into another spirit category.

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Twenty-two-year cask-aged sweet-potato expression
BaseHonkaku imo shochu
MaturationCask-aged · 22 years
DistillationAtmospheric
CategoryLiqueur
Alcohol34%
Bottle formats720 ml

Sensory profile

sleepy-bear-22 - Sensory profile

Aroma4.5
Sweetness4.0
Body4.5
Ingredient character3.5
Smoothness4.5
BG reference assessment on a 1–5 scale; not laboratory measurements.
The original 22

One long-aged sweet-potato base

The original SLEEPY BEAR 22 is made from honkaku sweet-potato shochu matured in cask for twenty-two years.

Dark, but still shochu-led

Cask time without category confusion

Long cask ageing brings a deeper amber colour and a settled, wood-led character. The expression is correctly a liqueur because a small amount of dietary fibre preserves that colour; it remains grounded in a sweet-potato shochu base.

READ & DISCOVER · 3 QUESTIONS

Distinguish the original SLEEPY BEAR 22.

Use three clues on this page to check the product information.

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Question 1

Which shochu forms the base of the original?

  1. Honkaku sweet-potato shochu
  2. Honkaku rice shochu
  3. Barley shochu
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Correct answer: A — Honkaku sweet-potato shochu

The original begins with sweet-potato shochu, unlike SLEEPY ELEPHANT’s rice-shochu base.

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Question 2

Which maturation matches the original?

  1. A blend of 22- and 41-year rice shochu
  2. Sweet-potato shochu matured in cask for 22 years
  3. Twenty-two days after bottling
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Correct answer: B — Sweet-potato shochu matured in cask for 22 years

The page concerns the original 22-year cask-matured sweet-potato expression, not the later THE HARMONICS version.

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Question 3

How is it classified after the colour-retaining treatment?

  1. Sake
  2. Whisky
  3. Liqueur
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Correct answer: C — Liqueur

Although it starts with sweet-potato shochu, the finished product is classified as a liqueur.

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Food affinities

Four directions from a 22-year sweet-potato shochu

SLEEPY BEAR 22 begins with a genuine sweet-potato shochu that spent 22 years in the barrel — a single thread of long aging followed from start to finish. Using its recorded traits of deep amber color and quiet barrel character as a guide, four directions for pairing are read out below. These are not pairings the brewery has officially presented; they are readings drawn from the recorded characteristics.

Root vegetables and sweet-potato sweetnessGlazed roasted carrots and parsnips, simmered kabocha squash (kabocha no fukumeni), and a pumpkin yellow curry (gaeng kari). The gentle sweetness at the base of this sweet-potato shochu runs in the same direction as the natural sweetness of root vegetables.
Nutty warmth meeting the barrel’s toasted noteA hazelnut tart, sweet soy-simmered walnuts (kurumi no amakarani), and a cashew chicken stir-fry (gai pad met mamuang). The toasted nuance carried by the barrel overlaps with the roasted character of nuts.
Fermented, aged umamiA lentil soup with aged ham, miso-braised pork shoulder, and a five-spice pork belly stew in the Thai style (palo). The koji-fermented base of the shochu overlaps with the aged umami of fermented seasonings.
A gentle sweetness for the after-dinner hourCinnamon rolls, warabi-mochi with brown sugar and roasted soybean flour, and a Thai sweet of tamarind and palm sugar. The gentle sweetness carried from the sweet potato runs in the same direction as the warm sweetness of brown sugar and palm sugar.

Pairing guide — Shochu & Selected Spirits

The producer

Makurazaki, Kagoshima — Satsuma Shuzo

Satsuma Shuzo was founded in 1936 in Makurazaki, Kagoshima. Its long-aged programmes are supported by an in-house team of coopers, a cooperage and cask warehouses—an infrastructure that lets the house care for shochu across long spans of time.

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