The Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 is the nineteenth one in what is now a biannual event held in the vicinity of the Saitama Super Arena; once in spring and also an autumn event too. Featuring over fifty craft beer companies and bars from Japan and overseas, the Keyaki Beer Festival Spring is a five-day event, from the 23rd May to the 27th May with plenty of choice for everyone.
With beers starting from ¥300 in price for roughly small sizes of about 250ml, and ¥500 the most common starting price for medium-sized classes. There are also craft beer tastings sets as well for customers to try from most of the breweries as well, that start from ¥1000 for 4 different beers. Some of the breweries, for example Outsider Brewing, Nasu Kougen Beer, and Shonan Beer have produced some special beers that can only be tried at the Keyaki Beer Festival Spring. Even more incentive to go, as if you needed it.
Moreover, there is also a bottle shop where you can pick up some of the beers to take home with you. Be careful though – after last year’s event, we ended up breaking a couple of bottles after consuming a tad too much beer.
Breweries Attending Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018
Domestic Breweries
- Ushitora (Tochigi)
- Daisen G Beer (Tottori)
- Tazawako Beer (Akita)
- Abashiri Beer (Hokkaido)
- Kirishima Beer (Miyazaki)
- Y Market Brewing (Aichi)
- Inawashiro Ji-Beer (Fukushima)
- Wind Valley Beer / Hi no Tani Beer (Mie)
- Miyazaki Hideji Beer (Miyazaki)
- Tokorozawa Beer (Saitama)
- Tainai Kogen Beer (Niigata)
- Echigo Beer (Niigata)
- Oirase Brewery (Aomori)
- Naruko no Kaze Brewery (Miyagi)
- Donryu Dream Beer (Gunma)
- Yokohama Beer (Kanagawa)
- Zumona Beer (Iwate)
- Devilcraft (Tokyo)
- Minamishinshu Beer (Nagano)
- Minoh Beer (Osaka)
- Fujizakura Beer (Yamanashi)
- Swan Lake Beer (Niigata)
- Kyoto Brewing Company (Kyoto)
- Iwate Kura Beer (Iwate)
- Shimane Beer (Shimane)
- Michinoku Fukushima Beer (Fukushima)
- Helios Beer (Okinawa)
- Yakurai Beer (Miyagi)
- Hokkaido Brewing (Hokkaido)
- Yamaguchi Ji-Beer (Yamaguchi)
- Shiroyama Brewery (Kagoshima)
- Ise Kadoya (Mie)
- Aqula Beer (Akita)
- Ushiku Brewery / Chateau Kamiya (Ibaraki)
- Furano Brewery (Hokkaido)
- Johana Beer (Toyama)
- Shiga Kogen (Nagano)
- North Island Beer (Hokkaido)
- Sankt Gallen (Kanagawa)
- Sennan Craft Beer (Miyagi)
- Oh! La! Ho Beer (Nagano)
- Nasu Kogen Beer (Tochigi)
- Coedo (Saitama)
Overseas Breweries / Shops
- Whisk-e Ltd.
- Warrior Celt
- Evergreen
- F.B. Japon
- AQ Bevolution
- Beer Cats
- Alesmith
- Kobatsu Trading
- Zugspitze
- Nippon Beer Company
- BC Beer Trading
- Yuwa Trade
Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 Opening Times
23rd May 16:00 – 21:00
24th – 26th May 11:00 – 21:00
27th May 11:00 – 20:00
Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 Details
Homepage (in Japanese): https://www.beerkeyaki.jp/
Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 Access
Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 is located at Saitama Shintoshin (さいたま新都心) station on the Keihin-tohoku line, and local lines of the Takasaki line and the Utsunomiya line.
Keyaki Beer Festival Spring 2018 Brewery Line Up
The breweries have not been confirmed at the time of writing.
