Background
Harvestmoon Brewery is a brewery based in Maihama, Chiba. If that place sounds familiar then you probably know it because of DisneyLand and DisneySea literally just round the corner from it. Ikspiari Town is a busy shopping area and Harvestmoon Brewery also have their own tasting room as well, called Roti’s House which houses the brewery. To confuse matters even more, the company that owns Disneyland also owns Roti’s House which owns Harvestmoon Brewery.
The brewery’s head brewer, Tomoko Sonoda, has an interesting story: she started at Oriental Land Company (which owns Ikspiari and the Disney parks) as a non-brewing staff member and applied internally for a brewer position when the project began. Under her leadership, Harvestmoon has won several international awards; for instance, its Pilsner won a gold medal at the World Beer Cup in 2022.
Beer Reviews
The following are some of the beers we’ve had:
- Harvestmoon Belgian Wheat – Typical Belgian wheat style beer but has the adjuncts of orange peel and coriander added during the brewing process.
- Harvestmoon Brown Ale – An American style brown ale brewed using imported hops from the USA.
- Harvestmoon Pale Ale – An English style pale ale brewed using hops and malt imported from the UK.
- Harvestmoon Pilsner – Brewed from a Czech recipe using Czech and German hops, this is another award-winning beer from Harvestmoon Brewery.
- Harvestmoon Schwarz – A German style beer that has won numerous awards around the world in its class.
Limited & Seasonal Line-up
The following are some of the limited and seasonal beers we’ve had:
- Harvestmoon Aki Mugi – A 6% Belgian ale that uses 1.6 times the usual amount of malt compared to their regular beers.
- Harvestmoon Barley Wine – an 8% barley wine from Harvestmoon that is part of their autumn line up.
- Harvestmoon Black Barley Wine – an 8% black barley wine from Harvestmoon that is part of their autumn line up.
- Harvestmoon Christmas Porter – a 5% winter seasonal porter from Harvestmoon in Chiba.
- Harvestmoon Il Limone del Diavolo – a 5% fruit beer and it is part of their autumnal range of beers.
- Harvestmoon IPA – a 6% American IPA brewed with three different kinds of imported American hops.
- Harvestmoon Smoke Ale – a 5.5% rauchbier from and is part of their summer line up of craft beers.
- Harvestmoon Valentine Stout – a 7% stout beer packaged only with a special label.
- Harvestmoon Yuzu Ale – A 4.5% fruit beer / radler that contains locally sourced yuzu from Japan.
Articles
The following are some of the articles we’ve done:
- Roti’s House Harvestmoon – the taproom for Harvestmoon, found just outside of Tokyo Disneyland
Details
- Address : 〒279-0031 Chiba, Urayasu, Maihama, 1-4 Ikispari 4F
- Phone : 0473-05-2525
- Homepage : https://www.ikspiari.com/harvestmoon/
- Online store : https://item.rakuten.co.jp/ikspiari/c/0000001251/
- Social Media : Facebook
