Rai Phrao, 2025 Harvest
Single estate sugarcane spirit / Phrao, Chiang Mai / 315 bottles
Kayan Buayen
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.
- 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
- 5 Hours (Spirit Run)
- Number of Bottles
- 315
- Maturation Time
- 10 months (Stainless Steel)
19° 21' 16.4" N, 99° 12' 46.5" E
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.
The land is mostly loamy sand, elevated above the surrounding rice paddies by around 50cm.
Copper pot, 5 hours
- Still Type
- Copper Pot
- Distillation Time
- 5 Hours (Spirit Run)
- Maturation Time
- 10 months (Stainless Steel)
