Hiroshima's Microbrewery Beer Festa offers up a serving of local ale
Dear beer lovers, more than 20 micro-breweries throughout Japan are scheduled to gather in Hiroshima this weekend. You're welcome. Seriously though, the Microbrewery Beer Festa in Hiroshima may be an opportunity to discover a new craft favorite produced here in Japan. Brewers will offer beer themselves, ...
BrewDog: Scottish brewery's Tokyo pub has attitude on tap
Scottish craft brewery BrewDog made its first foray into Asia with the opening of its own bar in Roppongi, Tokyo, on March 1. At a preopening event the night before, the company invited guests to try some of its most popular craft beers on ...
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies help manufacturers such as Toyota Motor Corp. rack up record profits, challenges to his reforms are showing up in a more mundane spot: the outlook for beer. Brewers in Japan face an April sales tax increase, stagnant wages and ...
Tokyo: If you could be prime minister for a day, what would you do?
Top concerns for would-be PMs around the metropolis: Fukushima, demographics, women in the workplace, the consumption tax, education, energy, English — and beer.
I was told the squat toilets in Japan were foot washing rooms I had to use before using the toilet. But I was able to see through that after a couple times.
As most beer-drinkers in Japan know, there's beer and then there's real beer. Mark Meli's "Craft Beer in Japan" makes this distinction in the very first sentence, before setting out, in a little over 200 pages, to comprehensively look at Japan's craft beer industry. Craft ...
German band to feature at Oktoberfest
In Japan, Oktoberfest tends to be a year-round celebration. Beer companies here will hold the traditional German party whenever they feel like a break. This month (or maybe we should say, this week) it's Yokohama's turn. Yokohama Oktoberfest, which has been held every year since ...
Rising cost of imports opens doors for craft beer revival
Naoyuki Ide is betting that a weaker yen will drive more Japanese people to drink his locally made craft beers. The president of Yo-Ho Brewing Co. is boosting production capacity at the microbrewery in Nagano by 50 percent this year as he anticipates the currency's ...
When is a beer with lunch not a beer with lunch?
Somebody has to pay for cheap beer
Alcohol wholesalers get called on the carpet for dumping beer.
World Beer Museum: Having a few drinks beneath the Skytree
If the view from the top of Tokyo Skytree leaves you hungry for more down-to-earth pleasures, there's no shortage of eating options in the Tokyo Solamachi mall at the foot of the tower. The ground floor arcade offers snacks and souvenirs, including a branch ...
