Ashcraft, Brian, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki. Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit. Foreword by Lew Bryson. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018.
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.
Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 258–259.
Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 258–259.
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Ashcraft, Japanese Whisky, supplied PDF pp. 258–259.
Japanese Whisky (2018): full-reading evidence expansion
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Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Desirable Spirit (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2018), supplied PDF pp. 258–259.
Supported interpretation
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.
Retrospective producer testimony about restarting whisky production after a long interruption; brewing experience helped but did not supply all missing distilling knowledge.
Limits and usage
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.
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