Background
Anglo-Japanese Brewing Company, abbreviated to AJB Company, is a small craft beer brewery located in Nozawa-Onsen, in Nagano, Japan. The brewery started out in 2014, and since then, the brewery has outgrown its original location, and a couple of years later, moved to a much larger location. AJB Company have a strong connection to the local area, and try to use as many local ingredients where possible, while also brewing beers that they want to drink. AJB Company uses a mixture of English and German malts, with British, American, and New Zealand hops as raw materials, with the local water from Nozawa Onsen being the base.
Beer Reviews
The following are some of the beers we’ve had:
- AJB Are – A 9.5% imperial stout that tatkes cacao husk which is leftover from the production of chocolate, and uses it in the making.
- AJB Coffee Imperial Milk Stout – An 8.5% imperial milk stout brewed using a healthy amount of coffee and lactose.
- AJB Fresh Hazy IPA – An 8% hazy IPA though what hops went into the making of it are unknown at the time of writing.
- AJB Hyakkendana Beer – A 4.5% blond ale brewed with Mikkeller Beer and uses Mosaic hops.
- AJB IBU Nai Lemondrop a 5.8% NE Pale Ale brewed using lemondrop hops, which were first released in 2012.
- AJB IBU Nai – a 5.4% American Pale Ale brewed so it does not have any IBU.
- AJB Icy Double – A 10% Cold Double IPA brewed using Pilsner malt, as well as American hops, though which ones used are unknown at the time of writing.
- AJB Kagayaki – A 5% fruited kölsch which uses grapefruit peel from the Miyazaki area.
- AJB King Kong Knee Drop – A 9.5% imperial stout brewed using Ichiro’s Malt whisky casks.
- AJB Rye IPA – A 6.0% rye IPA brewed using Magnum used for bittering and Copper, Centennial, and Chinook used for aroma hops.
- AJB Raw Foeder Sour – A 5% sour that is stored in foeders, basically giant wooden barrels.
- AJB Saison De La Maison – A 5.5% saison. It’s made with BET, a Japanese company that specializes in helping set up breweries with equipment and resources.
- AJB Sane – An 8% double IPA that ses waste products from pineapples that have been harvested in Okinawa.
- AJB Sumizome Sakura no Sei – A 7% black IPA. It takes its name from the story of a black cherry tree in Kyoto.
- AJB Yosuzume Barrel Aged – A 9% barleywine brewed with Kyoto Brewing Company.
Anglo-Japanese Brewing Company : Draught Reviews
The following are some of the draught beers we’ve had from Anglo-Japanese Brewing Company
- AJB Espresso Stout – A 10% imperial porter with beans from Allpress Roastery Tokyo, part of the chain of Allpress coffee shops from New Zealand, and used their Imperiality as a base to make this winter seasonal beer.
- AJB Euro IPA – A 6.8% American / European IPA brewed using European Alsace, Ariana, Calista, Hüll Melon, Mistral, and Polaris hops.
- AJB Libushi IPA – An 8% double / imperial IPA.
- AJB Shinshu Soba Stout – a 5% dry stout brewed using locally sourced soba from the Nagano area.
Articles
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Details
- Address : 9347 Toyosato, Nozawaonsen, Shimotakai-gun, Nagano 389-2502
- Phone : 0269-67-0710
- Homepage : https://anglojapanesebeer.com/
- Online store : https://anglojapanesebeer.com/collections/all
- Social Media : Facebook / Instagram
