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Sennenichi Sake Brewery, Awaji Island, Japan

MoIppai — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:00:24 +0000

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 and were very quickly invited for a mini-tour of the brewery by the extremely friendly owner.
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Asahi To Restart Beer Shipments from Fukushima

MoIppai — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:12:59 +0000

Looks like disaster struck Fukushima is slowly getting back on it’s feet with recent news that the Miyagikyo Distillery in Sendai reopened it’s distillery tours, which were suspended after the quake, and newspapers yesterday reporting that Asahi Breweries will be resuming it’s shipments of beer from it’s brewery in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture by the end of June.

Brewing starts this month with canning, etc. from next.

The brewery is 57km from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant and radiation detectors will be used at the brewery for product safety.

Good news all round, and hopefully smaller businesses will also be able to get back to normal soon too.

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The Japan Beer Times – Get it, it’s good!

MoIppai — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:57:22 +0000

The Japan Beer Times

There aren’t many magazines in English printed in Japan and only a couple of bi-lingual ones so I was very surprised and pleased to discover
The Japan Beer Times, “The Craft Beer Magazine of Japan”,
a free(!) bi-lingual magazine.

It’s been going since the beginning of 2010 and is published quarterly it seems with articles on beer, breweries, home-brew recipes and even some haiku, along with lists of contact information for Japanese breweries.

It’s free from craft breweries, bars and tourist shops apparently buy unfortunately there are none near me (although there are lots of sake breweries…if only there was a bi-lingual magazine for sake!), however it’s available to buy from their website at a token price of ￥50 plus postage.

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Sapporo Beer Advert – Legendary Biru

MoIppai — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:38:39 +0000

This fantastic new commercial from Sapporo came to my attention through the Mutineer Magazine blog, I’ve yet to see it on Japanese TV. Maybe I’m not watching enough NHK variety shows! (Thankfully I don’t watch any!).

It’s a phenomenal live action/cgi trip through Japanese brewing history and mythology (I guess!) – including sumo wrestlers, geisha taiko drumming and dragons – and is just quite beautiful to watch.

Makes a change from the usual J-pop stars and variety “talent” chugging beer and saying “Umai!”.

The standard Sapporo lager (with the black star) is only average I think, but the Premium Yebisu (Red Can) is excellent. (Click the links for my reviews).

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Blue Beer from Hokkaido Japan

MoIppai — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:35:25 +0000

Japanese Blue Beer

One of the bigger supermarkets around here (Hankyu) is having a Hokkaido Fair at the moment with speciality food and craft beers from the region.

Hokkaido, for those that don’t know, is the northern most of the 4 main Japan islands, where Sapporo Beer is from (Sapporo city is kind of the capital of Hokkaido). I haven’t visited there yet, but it’s famous for it’s snow, beautiful scenery, nature and sushi.

My wife picked up two of the craft beers for me the other day, the Yubari Coal Mine Black Beer and the bizarre Ryuhyou Draft Okhotsk Blue which is a BLUE happoshu from Abashiri Brewery.

Ryuhyou　in Japanese is 流氷 which means Drift Ice, and to be honest I don’t know if it’s made with drift ice water or it’s just some marketing thing.

Unfortunately, despite the colour, it’s just a disappointing happoshu with a fairly chemical taste. Full marks for trying though. Click the image below for a full review.

Ryuhyou Draft

Yubari Coal Mine Beer

Edited 7th June 2010: Just found this on YouTube

The Abashiri Brewery’s (Japanese) website can be found here.