In some you will find, apart from the typical array of sake, library-like shelves lined not with vellum spines but with dark-gold bottles of Hakushu, Laphroaig, Bowmore and Yamazaki.
After earning her degree in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 (where she kept her own bottle of Bowmore in her desk drawer for special occasions), she spent a year studying the chemistry of Newcastle Brown Ale.