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 [...]
Kirin Brewery has beaten Asah Brewery in beer
shipments for the first time in 9 years!
A staggering 178million cases (of beer and beer-like drinks) were shipped last year. Asahi shipped 800,000 less.
Good news for Asahi in terms of sales though,
they beat Kirin by 200,000 cases.
So it would appear people still prefer Asahi, but off-licenses
and wholesalers like [...]
I read in Kyodo News yesterday that Suntory are planning a “nonalcoholic beerlike drink” (i.e. happoshu) to be released at the end of September to compete with Kirin’s Kirin Free and the soon to be released Asahi Point Zero.
The drink will contain no alcohol but they claim it will have the
brisk flavour of beer
because it contains [...]
Recently I bought 2 newly released beers from Asahi and Kirin. Well, the Asahi is actually a few months old I think, but the Kirin is very new.
Asahi Style Free and Kirin Free
(Click the images or links above for reviews)
The Free in the Kirin Lager actually refers to the lager being 0.00% Alcohol free, and [...]
