July 2015

A strange one from Japan but Minamishinshu IPA is a spring seasonal from Minamishinshu Beer Company that seems to be available all-year round though not in production for the whole time. Minamishinshu IPA …

If you follow us on Twitter (@TengokuBeer) or Facebook (BeerTengoku), you would have seen the announcement that Yo-Ho Brewing were doing a special “Buy-five-beers-get-one-free” at Natural Lawsons. Karuizawa Kogen 2014 Seasonal …

Baird Carpenter’s Mikan Ale is Baird Beer’s take on a fruit beer that is made using locally sourced mikans from the Shizuoka area. Shizuoka isn’t just famous for tea, with …

If you made it to the Keyaki Spring Beer Festival then you would have seen Shiga Kogen / Pizza Port So Sexy Brown on sale. It’s a collaborative beer between Tamamura …

  Zenryaku Konomi Nante Kiitenaize Sorry Session Yuzu Ale- to give it its full title, and get this article way over the minimum word count before I even talk about …

Brimmer California Spring Ale is Brimmer Brewing’s most recent specialty beer. It’s a 5.5% Golden Ale, and I was given it by Rob who got it from Deguchiya. I personally …

After our extensive trip around the Shonan Beer brewery, we were pretty hungry and fancied some grub. The problem though was did we fancy some bread or a proper meal …

It’s not often I leave the bottle shops of Le Collier and Liquors Hasegawa behind for different climes, but I had heard good things about Deguchiya in Naka-Meguro. It’s located a …

Bay Brewing, sorry, Bay Brewing Yokohama, are known throughout Japan for their Czech style beers as Suzuki-san spent his formative brewing years in the Czech Republic learning the craft and …

Miyajima Caramel Blonde came recommended to us from a reader on Twitter who pointed out that we had forgotten to include Miyajima Beer on our Craft Beer Map of Japan (Check it …