Academy use: procedural teaching should include proportions, observations, failure modes and reasons. The case supports practical knowledge transfer, not a measured comparison of training methods.
Retrospective producer testimony about restarting whisky production after a long interruption; brewing experience helped but did not supply all missing distilling knowledge.
Takehira reports that Mars’s restart documents named steps such as milling without specifying the required fractions. The team learned through experimentation, including a mash tun clogged by excessive flour, and adapted advice shared by Suntory and Nikka visitors.
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Japanese Whisky (2018): full-reading evidence expansion
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Evidence
Takehira reports that Mars’s restart documents named steps such as milling without specifying the required fractions. The team learned through experimentation, including a mash tun clogged by excessive flour, and adapted advice shared by Suntory and Nikka visitors.
Location and context
Supplied PDF258–259,2018 edition.
Retrospective producer testimony about restarting whisky production after a long interruption; brewing experience helped but did not supply all missing distilling knowledge.
Annotation
Academy use: procedural teaching should include proportions, observations, failure modes and reasons. The case supports practical knowledge transfer, not a measured comparison of training methods.
Verification
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