Some more good news from disaster hit Sendai, after the news back in May that Asahi restarting beer shipments from it’s brewery in Fukushima, and Miyagikyo Distillery reopening it’s tours, it seems that Kirin Brewery Co. will be resuming work at it’s Sendai plant in September and will start shipping beer from there in November.
Operations will remain at 60% of it’s capacity, the Yomiuri Shimbun reports… Continue reading
First came the iBottleopener from Lightbulb Moments in America (I blogged about it last year, here), and now some Aussie’s are getting in on the act.
The act being, combining an iPhone case with an always useful beer bottle opener.
Two guys from Melbourne have designed, and funded with the help of Kickstarter (a website where you can post your entrepreneurial ideas and try… Continue reading
As part of their corporate tie-up t-shirt range, Uniqlo in Japan (and perhaps elsewhere) have released a series of sake and beer company t-shirts.
There’s Yebisu, Sapporo and a few sake breweries, of which I bought the Otokoyama Brewery t-shirt (as I’ve tried, and liked their sake before).
Otokoyama Uniqlo T-Shirt
Kirin Ice + Beer
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, at the end of July, Japanese Brewery Kirin will release a beer designed specifically to be drunk over ice. They’re calling it, rather originally, “Ice + Beer“.
It seems they were “inspired” by the recent trend of drinking wine or sake with… Continue reading
This Japanese guy decided to make a robot out of a Kirin Tanrei Happoshu can!(Guess it’s better than drinking the stuff!)
Pretty cool, (in a very geeky otaku way). He’s even hooked it up so it can be controlledby a Wii controller!… Continue reading
