A couple of months ago I was the lucky recipient (along with 1.5 million other people in Japan) of this in the post…
Asahi Tasting Package
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
Vampire Pinot Noir
As an ex-dodgy-goth and a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I still like to dip in and out of the underworld every now and then, and discovered this winery the other day while surfing the net. Vampire Vineyards
Supposedly owned by a circle… Continue reading
Kirin Lager Beer
Beer sales in Japan have dropped this year apparently due to an unseasonably cool summer…um, was that the really hot, humid summer I just lived through? Unseasonably cool huh?
Kirin won out amongst the big 4 market leaders but only by .6%… Continue reading
Looks like Autumns arrived in Japan.
How do I know? Well it’s not the sharp change in weather (it’s less humid but still in the high 20s), or the change in leaves (that hasn’t started yet), no, I know it’s Autumn because the Autumn Beers have gone on sale!
Kirin Taste of Autumn Lager (Aki Aji)
Osaka Beer Festival 2009
Finally getting round to writing about the Great Japan Beer Festival 2009 at Osaka Kyocera Dome (usually home to the Orix Buffaloes baseball team, but that day was home to a lot of drunken Japanese and a surprising percentage of gaijin – nothing… Continue reading
