Prompted by the large number of injuries due to fights in pubs and bars in England (some 87,000 alcohol related glass attacks a year!), the shatterproof pint glass has been unveiled this week in Britain.
There are two types, one designed not to break at all (it has a protective coating on the inside) and the [...]
I went to a local Izakaya last night (an Izakaya is kind of a cross between a tapas bar and a pub, where you buy lots of small plates of – usually – cheap food and wash it down with drinks. Japanese people tend not “just” drink, they nearly always eat food at the same [...]
Well it would appear to be Winter soon in Japan.
I blogged a while ago about Autumn beers in Japan and how Japan and the Japanese people are very seasonal and like to celebrate the changes in seasons with, amongst other things, new kinds of beer.
The first Winter beers have hit the shelves! Despite it [...]
The Daily Yomiuri has reported that Kirin Holdings (recently reported to be the largest brewery in Japan in terms of output) intends to close 2 breweries next year due to poor sales.
Beer drinking in Japan is on the decline as many younger people are switching to wine and other drinks.
Kirin and Suntory also recently announced [...]
A couple of months ago I was the lucky recipient (along with 1.5 million other people in Japan) of this in the post…
An Asahi Beer “Pepsi” Challenge Kit. Well, actually it’s an Asahi Happoshu Taste challenge as it’s to mark the release of Asahi’s new Cool Draft Happoshu.
In the box there’s a can of the [...]
