Attribute this perspective to the named Suntory blender rather than all Japanese blenders. Distinguish maintaining a target style despite stock variation from deliberately evolving the target for consumers. The adjacent assertion that a computer cannot blend is Broom's rhetoric, not a demonstrated technical limit. Academy application: use separate exercises for matching a reference and redesigning a blend for a new serve.
Blends, preserved Notion sheets 288–289, displayed p. 176. Fukuyo contrasts Kakubin's earlier mizuwari role with its Highball role, then discusses variable whisky components.
Shinji Fukuyo tells Broom that blend composition must respond to changing whisky stocks, serving habits and consumer expectations; maintaining brand quality does not require an invariant recipe.
p. 176; preserved Notion PDF sheet 289
p. 176; PDF sheet 288
Blends
Fresh sequential text and rendered-page audit of preserved 420-sheet copy, sheets 288–289, including blending-room photograph. Extended locator to the actual no-fixed-recipe quotation. Source fidelity verified; broad consumer and technology claims not independently established.
Evidence
Shinji Fukuyo tells Broom that blend composition must respond to changing whisky stocks, serving habits and consumer expectations; maintaining brand quality does not require an invariant recipe.
Location and context
p. 176; PDF sheet 288 through p. 176; preserved Notion PDF sheet 289. These screen locators identify the preserved 420-sheet Notion attachment, not the 383-sheet Movies copy.
Blends, preserved Notion sheets 288–289, displayed p. 176. Fukuyo contrasts Kakubin's earlier mizuwari role with its Highball role, then discusses variable whisky components.
Critical assessment and Academy use
Attribute this perspective to the named Suntory blender rather than all Japanese blenders. Distinguish maintaining a target style despite stock variation from deliberately evolving the target for consumers. The adjacent assertion that a computer cannot blend is Broom's rhetoric, not a demonstrated technical limit. Academy application: use separate exercises for matching a reference and redesigning a blend for a new serve.
Verification
Fresh sequential text and rendered-page audit of preserved 420-sheet copy, sheets 288–289, including blending-room photograph. Extended locator to the actual no-fixed-recipe quotation. Source fidelity verified; broad consumer and technology claims not independently established.
Source, citation, Literature Note and tag relations retained. Remaining linked-record audits and book-level copy collation remain open.