World Beer Cup 2024

The World Beer Cup (WBC), billed as the world’s most prestigious beer competition, is now an annual affair showcasing the best beers from around the world. A handful of those beers come from Japan, as results prove with each WBC; Japan’s brewers have consistently taken home medals since the competition was first launched in 1996.…

ACBE 2023

The American Craft Beer Experience (ACBE) festival, which showcases some of the best of American craft beer, takes place this year from November 10th through the 12th at Waters Takeshiba in Tokyo. Launched in 2015, it offers the public a chance to try a tantalizing range of brands brought to Japan by its major importers.…

Nomcraft Brewing

Keep it weird in Wakayama text by Julian Houseman, photos by Jason Adamson Many things that happen in life can be attributed to chance encounters. Whenever you meet someone new, you can never know how that coincidental meeting may or may not have an effect on your future. To hear the story of Adam Baran’s…

Inkhorn

(by Mai Furukawa) It’s so hard to turn away a good beer. Once I take a sip of a well-made one, resistance is futile and I dive right in. For those of us serious fans, it’s times like these where a sip might as well be a pint. On this occasion, I was drinking a…