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…
by Brian Kowalczyk | photography by Matt Gammon In mid-May, Adrian Walker, Export Director for Firestone Walker, visited Japan to help kick-off the launch of this excellent brand. We sat down with him over sushi for a chat about his involvement with this iconic brewery and his hopes for Japan. “Beer before glory.” If there…
On April 23rd and 24th, Aeon Liquor’s Jiyugaoka branch in Tokyo held their second Craft Beer Expo, where guests paid a mere ¥1000 to sample more than fifty domestic and foreign craft beers. The attendance this year easily exceeded the inaugural event held last August, which drew 600 people. On Saturday, 400 attended, while on…
Finally! Craft beer at Japanese baseball games… Baseball season has kicked off in earnest in two of the world’s largest baseball cultures: Japan and America. What drink goes better with baseball than beer? Many baseball stadiums across America serve craft beer. As we noted in Japan Beer Times previously, San Francisco’s AT&T Park serves more…
There’s a great party coming up on April 15th at Roti Roppongi. Some of our long-time readers may remember that we designated this one of the best craft beer restaurants in Japan a couple of a years ago. Executive chef Ian Tozer has even contributed one of his delicious recipes to our publication. In addition…
