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 [...]
It’s Valentines Day soon, and in Japan they do Valentines Day a little different to the West (let’s face it, in Japan they do a lot of things different to the west!).
Here it’s kind of reversed.
Instead of boyfriends, husbands, etc buying flowers, jewellery or lingerie for their respective partners, in Japan it’s the girls job [...]
Sapporo Breweries are releasing a limited run of Space Beer next year!
Actually they’re calling it Space Barley beer as it’s made from some barley that spent some time on the International Space Station. Which is nice.
Apparently they say it’s the same as normal barley, so pretty much the beer’s gonna taste just like normal 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% to Asahi (Super Dry didn’t sell well this year).
Suntory Holdings Ltd came third followed [...]
