Like many beer drinkers I like a good beer festival or two, for example the dramatically titled Great Japan Beer Festival which is held in Yokohama, Osaka and Tokyo every year, so when HolidayCheck (www.holidaycheck.co.uk) recently sent me a press release about their favourite beer festivals of 2010, I thought I might aswell share it [...]
After 14 years in the courts, the European Union’s top court has ruled that Anheuser-Busch InBev (the American brewery that makes the American version of Buweiser) cannot register “Budweiser” as a trademark in Europe. This is because Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar have been making beer since the 13th century in the city of Budweis (now [...]
Unlike in, say England, where we do fireworks when it’s cold and miserable in November, in Japan the fireworks season is the height of summer. In fact our city’s fireworks display and matsuri (festival) is tonight. To celebrate the fireworks (hanabi 花火 in Japanese) season, Suntory have released a new design for their Kinmugi (Rich [...]
The Daily Yomiuri newspaper reported yesterday that Asahi Breweries Ltd. has taken back the top spot in the beer market in Japan after two years in second place to Kirin. Asahi was top in the first half of 2010 with 37.1% of sales followed by Kirin with 36.4%, Suntory 13.4%, Sapporo 12.3% and bravely bringing [...]
