The American Craft Beer Experience in Tokyo is indeed a festival to experience. Now in its second year, ACBE is hosted by the best of Japan’s importers of American craft beer. It is cosponsored by the Brewers Association (USA) Export Development Program and features a dynamic array of breweries that participate in this important program.…
An extension of the Goodbeer Faucets bars (Tokyo and Fukuoka), but with a twist, On the Table focuses heavily on cuisine and provides craft beer as a to complement it. Their signature dish is a delicious paella, which is rare in Japan, making this perhaps the only place you can pair it with craft beer.…
New craft beer bars are opening at an accelerated and exciting clip these days, especially in the Kanto area. Keeping up with each new opening has become a next to impossible task. The latest on the scene (at least as of today), TITANS Craft Beer Taproom & Bottle Shop, is one we have a very…
Goose Island Brewery, one of the pioneers of the craft beer movement in America, is now available in Japan. Will the Chicago-based brewery inspire and provoke conversation in Japan as it did in America? In a market as competitive as Japan’s, all new players face the struggle of acceptance but Goose Island may have the…
Craft Beer Night Market, whose inaugural event last year in Kyoto’s Uji City attracted 20,000 people over the course of the day, will be held again on Saturday, August 8th. Until very recently, Uji hosted an annual fireworks festival around this same time. It reached its 56th iteration, but last year that festival was halted…
