An essential component of the house blends, the NIKKA COFFEY GRAIN is an original single grain whisky, distilled mainly from corn in a Coffey still. The Nikka Coffey Grain is even more unique in that it is based on corn, while most modern grain whiskies rely on wheat. The Coffey still is named after its inventor Aeneas Coffey. In 1830, the French-born Irishman perfects this technique, which would become widely adopted by the Scots for the production of blends, allowing them to surpass Ireland as a whisky producing nation.