At the end of September the Kobe Regatta and Athletic Club (KR&C) held their first annual Sannomiya Craft Beer Tasting Festival in the garden of their main building.
Over 12 Japanese craft beers were on offer throughout the day and in the short time I was there I tried about 6 of them.
Baird Beer
This Summer saw the release of three new Japanese beers from the main Japanese breweries, Kirin, Asahi and Sapporo. Although only Kirin released a real beer.The other two opted for the cheaper option of beer-like drinks (daisan).
Asahi Blue Label
First came the Asahi Blue Label which… Continue reading
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
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
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… Continue reading
