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.
The book describes a multicolumn route yielding light grain spirit at90–94%ABV, a kettle working with rectifier and beer column for medium spirit, and a beer-column/doubler route for heavy spirit. The plant also supplies alcohol for ready-to-drink beverages.
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. 290–293.
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. 290–293.
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Ashcraft, Japanese Whisky, supplied PDF pp. 290–293.
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. 290–293.
Supported interpretation
The book describes a multicolumn route yielding light grain spirit at90–94%ABV, a kettle working with rectifier and beer column for medium spirit, and a beer-column/doubler route for heavy spirit. The plant also supplies alcohol for ready-to-drink beverages.
Site-visit description and Igura interview. The light-route account is atPDF290; medium and heavy routes are atPDF293. Malt/grain production alternated at the visit, unlike reported simultaneous1980s operation.
Limits and usage
Academy use: map equipment routes to intended component roles without ranking quality. Total plant alcohol, available equipment and whisky output are not interchangeable. Do not treat the book’s doubler/thumper terminology as a complete technical equivalence.
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