This question bugged me for quite a while when I first discovered that Japan has 3 categories of beer, and I don’t mean lager, beer, bitter, etc.
Thankfully, an article in the Daily Yomiuri yesterday cleared it up for me.
The reason Japan has 3 different categories of beer is essentially for tax reasons.
Regular beer which must [...]
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 [...]
Recently I bought 2 newly released beers from Asahi and Kirin. Well, the Asahi is actually a few months old I think, but the Kirin is very new.
Asahi Style Free and Kirin Free
(Click the images or links above for reviews)
The Free in the Kirin Lager actually refers to the lager being 0.00% Alcohol free, and [...]
