On a recent trip to Awajishima (Awaji island, a tiny island inbetween Honshu and Shikoku, just off the coast of Kobe), we stopped in at the local sake brewery Sennenichi to pick up a bottle of the local brew to take home.
Sennenichi Sake Brewery
We were greeted very warmly… Continue reading
As well as having more than a passing interest in booze, I’m also quite keen on the Godzilla and other Toho Monster movies, and it’s not often these two worlds come together.
So I was very excited to read about Konishi Brewing Company releasing a Special Edition Shirayuki barley Shochu in a Godzilla pottery bottle!
Godzilla Bottle
It’s coming up to that Beaujolais Nouveau time of the year again, and due to time differences Japan always gets it first, and is probably the only country that still gets excited about it.
The convenience stores have pre-order flyers so you can make sure you get yours as soon as possible.
Beaujolais Nouveau 2011
Every year during the second weekend in January there’s a long Bank Holiday weekend, as we would say in England, and this co-incides with the Ebisu Shinto Shrine festivals held around Japan. People go to the shrines to buy fukusasa, which are lucky charms for businesses in the coming year.
Just up the road from us in Nishinomiya city is one of the biggest festivals with around 1 million… Continue reading
The highball craze in Japan continues unabated with Kirin Brewery just announcing the launch of two new highball cans on November 17th this year.
Four Roses Highball and I.W. Harper Highball.
Most highballs in Japan use Suntory whiskey it seems, so this is the first to use Kentucky whiskey.
Suntory themselves have re-released, after a 43-year absence, a canned high-ball made from the company’s Tory’s… Continue reading
