Ongoing Projects
Sake Project to Inherit the Sake from an Old Brewery Destroyed by Earthquake to Develop a New Brewery(2024-05-30)
― Keio University Collaborates with Local Sake Breweries and Fukushima University on Food Chain Demonstration Research from Production to Sales ―
The Centre for Finance, Technology and Economics at Keio (FinTEK) (Director: Teruo Nakatsuma) and the Center for Social Innovation in Market Design (SIMDI) (Director: Morimitsu Kurino), both affiliated with the Institute of Economic Studies, the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, the Institute of Brewing and Fermentation (Director: Tsukasa Matsuda) at Fukushima University and Kinsuisho Sake Brewery Co. Ltd. will start a food chain verification study that covers the process from brewing to sales, in which sake from a damaged brewery will be used to brew aged sake at a new brewery. This will allow them to inherit the history and spirit of the old brewery and promote sales by adding one-of-a-kind value to the sake.
For further details, please refer to this website.
Press Release from Keio University