The Brewers Association of Japan is engaged in technical subjects, which have a common interest to its member companies. Education includes substantial training, and it is being carried out while each company member participates in each subject.
Major activities are as follows.
Nine trust research projects are being carried out, with the purpose of quality improvement of barley and hops and an improvement in productivity. A coming together of each member company and respective agricultural experiment stations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, and of each prefecture. This encounter with each other and a joint examination of beer barley breeding is enforced. In April the annual variety evaluation meeting is held, and trial varieties are assessed and the varieties for next year trial are proposed, and this is confirmed by the breeding-planning meeting in September. In April 2000, a joint comparative test quality examination meeting was held.