Up in Hokkaido sits Otaru Beer, a Japanese brewery dedicated to brewing strict German styles. Luckily, you don’t have to visit the little town of Otaru to sample their beers as they are available in central Tokyo. The Beer Horn bar, in Akasaka, serves up Otaru beers in actual animal horns. This was something my […]
Tokyo has many great beer bars, but one that keeps drawing me back is DevilCraft. DevilCraft is the brainchild of three American beer lovers, John Chambers, Jason Koehler and Mike Grant. They opened the first location in Kanda in 2011, and followed it up with a roomier one in Hamamatsucho a couple of years later. […]
Tokyo is an immense city with countless drinking establishments, but the brewers at British Brewpub Campion Ale have been working hard to stand out from that crowd. Indeed Campion and it’s founder James Williams have been featured in articles in both the Japan Times and the Financial Times. Campion Ale is located a bit […]
For those looking to start 2015 off right there are a pair of Kanto area craft beer festivals coming up. The Japan Brewers Cup in Yokohama will be held on January 23rd, 24th and 25th and the Nippon Craft Beer Festival will be held in the Sumida area of Tokyo on February 7th and 8th. […]
As the slate grey skies and chilly temperatures of mid December threaten to overwhelm, good food, warm drinks, and bright lights are there to keep us going. Christmas has arrived, and with it comes the German Christmas Markets. The shopping and eating pleasures of the traditional German Kristkindlmarkt have arrived in Japan. Christmas markets have […]
A friend in Tokyo recently let me know that on Saturday November 29th BrewDog and Mikkeller are meeting up in Harajuku for a two hour all you can drink event. All you can drink craft beer for 3,000 yen is a really good deal, especially in Tokyo. The event is being held at the Sad […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about BrewDog , the Scottish craft brewery that has been making a major effort to enter the Japanese beer market. The new BrewDog Roppongi has been on my to do list since it opened earlier this year. Recently I had a chance to check it out, and I was […]
Japanese craft beer can be hard to find. Luckily for beer aficionados some people have made it a point to gather as much excellent beer as possible in one place. So it is with Aoki Tatsuo’s craft beer pub Popeye. Aoki has long been a supporter of the Japanese craft scene, and Popeye is one […]
