Sankt Gallen Brewery Information

Background

Sankt Gallen is a brand that started in 2002 in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The name “Sankt Gallen” comes from the St. Gallen Abbey in Switzerland, which was the first brewery in the world to obtain a license. This original craft beer brewery was started by Nobuhisa Iwamoto, who fell in love with American beer, as a one-man company, and was the catalyst that made small-scale brewing of beer permitted in Japan.

Iwamoto’s focus is on “clean beer that isn’t affected by the ingredients,” and while none of his beers have an impact, most are easy to drink and you end up drinking too much.

Beer Reviews : Regular

The following are some of the regular beers we’ve had:

• Sankt Gallen Amber ale – An American style amber ale;
• Sankt Gallen Brown porter – A brown porter style beer;
• Sankt Gallen Golden ale – An American style pale ale;
• Sankt Gallen Pale ale – An American style pale ale.
• Sankt Gallen Yokohama XPA – An extra pale ale;
• Sankt Gallen Kansha no Name Gold / Kogane – a 5% American pale ale that is brewed for Fathers’ day, and comes in 1.8L sake-sized bottles too.
• Sankt Gallen Kansha no Name Black / Kuro – a 5% stout that is brewed for Fathers’ day, and comes in 1.8L sake-sized bottles too.
• Sankt Gallen Kitakamakura no Megumi – a 5% amber ale that is brewed “to show off the hardness of Kamakura’s water”
• Sankt Gallen Kokuto Sweet Stout – A stout made using black sugar from Okinawa.
• Sankt Gallen Sweet Vanilla Stout – A stout with lashings of vanilla.

Beer Reviews : Seasonal

The following are some of the seasonal beers we’ve had:

• Sankt Gallen Sakura – a 5% spring seasonal spiced / fruit beer that uses locally sourced sakura, or cherry blossoms, in the fermentation process.
• Sankt Gallen Shonan Gold (Sweet Orange ale) – A fruit beer made using local oranges released annually in April.
• Sankt Gallen Pineapple Ale – Another fruit beer made using whole pineapples released annually in May
• Sankt Gallen Fresh Hop IPA – a 7% American IPA that has a different hop used each year and is released around September.
• Sankt Gallen El Diablo – a 10% barley wine that is released annually around the middle of November.
• Sankt Gallen El Angel – a 10% wheat wine that is released annually around the middle of November.
• Sankt Gallen Apple Cinnamon Ale – Winter only beer made using Nagano apples;
• Sankt Gallen Fruit Tart Ale – a 5% spice beer brewed using apples, cinnamon, ginger, and ichijuku, or Japanese figs released in winter.
• Sankt Gallen Orange Chocolate Stout – A sweet stout infused with orange peel released annually for Valentine’s day.
• Sankt Gallen Imperial Chocolate Stout – Award winning chocolate stout brewed yearly for Valentine’s day.

Beer Reviews : Limited

The following are some of the limited we’ve had:

• Sankt Gallen Golden Haze IPA – a 6.5% IPA which uses three times as many hops at a much later addition to impart the fruity flavours into the beer with a ratio of 2 : 39.
• Sankt Gallen Mango IPA – a 6% fruit beer brewed with 1.3 times the amount of malt and 6.75 times the amount of hops that usually go into making that beer, and also freshly peeled mango too.
• Sankt Gallen Space Hazy – a 7% NE-IPA from Sankt Gallen brewed in conjunction with Uchu Brewing.

Beer Reviews : Valentine’s Beers

Every year, Sankt Gallen produce a special chocolate based beer for their Valentine’s lineup. Here are some we’ve had:

• Sankt Gallen Smoked Chocolate Stout – (2015) A 6.5% smoked stout with chocolate malts.
• Sankt Gallen Sesame Chocolate Stout – (2017) a 6.5% spiced stout where one batch of beer used over 200kg of the sesame seeds.
• Sankt Gallen Annin Chocolate Stout – (2018) a 6.5% spiced beer brewed using 100kgs of fresh apricot kernels, known as “annin” in Japanese.
• Sankt Gallen Banana Chocolate Stout – (2019) a 7% stout brewed using over 300kg of fresh imported bananas during the second fermentation stages along with some lactose too.
• Sankt Gallen Double Mint Chocolate – (2020) a 7% spiced stout that uses 30 kg of peppermind and spearmint in the making of it.
• Sankt Gallen Grape Chocolate Stout – (2022) an 8.5% imperial stout that uses locally grown Muscat Bailey A grapes.
• Sankt Gallen Salted Caramel Chocolate Stout – (2024) a 6.5% milk stout that uses in-house made burnt caramel.
• Sankt Gallen Tiramisu Chocolate Stout – (2025) an 8% pastry stout that uses biscuits, chocolate, coffee, lactose, and vanilla to resemble a tiramisu.

Articles

The following are some of the articles we’ve done:

• Sankt Gallen Interview – an interview we did with Iwamoto-san.
• Bakery & Beer Butchers – aka Good Aging Store, an unofficial taproom for beers from Sankt Gallen
• Sankt Gallen Taproom – the official taproom for Sankt Gallen, located in Atsugi, Kanagawa.

Details

• Address : 1137-1 Kaneda, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0807
• Phone :
• Homepage : http://www.sanktgallenbrewery.com
• Online store : http://www.sanktgallenbrewery.com/online-shop/
• Social Media : Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

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