Rai Phrao - 2025 Harvest

Field
Notes

Kayan Buayen is a Chiang Mai native, born in Doi Saket (of coffee fame) and moved to Phrao when he was 12. He's worked the lands, started a family and is now in semi retirement. After his son was elected Village Chief, Lung Kayan came out of retirement to help put the family lands to use while his son was busy.

His farm, consisting of an L shaped ploy of land, is raised slightly above the surrounding rice paddies, allowing for the dry conditions needed for growing sugarcane but is still well irrigated via the stream running alongside. He has been growing cane for over 20 years and normally supplies the local sugar mill. The 2025 harvest was the second harvest of the current cane.

Key Facts

Owner: Kayan Buayen

Location: Phrao, Chiang Mai

Cane Variety: Khon Kaen 3

Altitude: 449m

Aspect: Raised Flat Land

Annual Rainfall: 1681mm

Average Temperature: 28.0c

Average Annual Sun: 3429 Hours

Average Fermentation Time: 128 Hours

Still Type: Copper Pot

Distillation Time: 8.5 Hours (Spirit Run)

Number of Bottles: 315

Maturation Time: 10 months (Stainless Steel)

Farm Location

19° 21' 16.4" N 99° 12' 46.5" E

Bottle Design

Cane Variety

Khon Kaen 3

Khon Kaen 3, or KK3, is a cultivar produced for North Eastern Thailand in 2011. It's prized for it's hardiness, high sugar and high juice yield and its ease of cutting and leaf stripping.