The warm months are here. Welcome to beer festival season. Strap on your bullet-proof liver vests. Or just drink responsibly. Your body will love you for it. Before we launch into our roundup of what’s transpired in our happy little beer universe over the last few months, we really want to encourage you to attend…
Quiet are the cold months in Japan. Long are the hours of darkness. Yet deep, so very deep, is the thirst of the beer drinker. May beer be your light, your warmth, your music! To that end, it’s a damn good thing that bars specializing in craft beer continue opening across Japan. Breweries, too. The…
Festival grounds across Japan are littered with empty cups and beer zombies. Brewers made it out on the last helicopter. Alcohol Apocalypse, aka summer beer festival season, has ended. We hope you had fun. It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, we attended all the craft beer festivals in Japan. The number…
Are you ready? You better be. The summer beer festival season is chugging full-speed ahead like a train down the tracks. (Did someone say chugging? Please don’t chug craft beer…). But let’s put on the brakes a little and look back at the last few months. Japan’s premiere food and beer event, Grande Biere—this year…
We think every season is beer season, but in terms of festival activity, it basically kicks off in the spring. Unless, of course, you are Suzuki Shinya of Bay Brewing. His Japan Brewers Cup and Festival at Osanbashi Hall, Yokohama, celebrated its second year at the end of January with thousands attending. From what we…
