Songbird Smoked Mild is a 3.8% smoked beer that is a cross between an English mild bitter and a rauch from Brewery Songbird based in Chiba. Rauch beers involve the malt being dried over a smoking fire rather than air-dried, thus gaining a smoky flavour to the beer. This beer is part of Songbird Brewery’s autumnal line up and is on …
Songbird Maltina Mukaka by Brewery Songbird
Songbird Maltina Mukaka is a 6% spiced / fruit beer from Brewery Songbird that is part of the winter seasonal lineup and was also released as their first Christmas beer. Maybe you’ve drunk the original Songbird Maltina already but this has been infused with mukaka, which translates to fig. Why they used the word mukaka instead of, say, ichijiku, is unusual but hey, …
Songbird Maltina by Songbird Brewery
Songbird Maltina is a 6.3% Belgian Bruin style beer from Songbird Brewery in Chiba. If that doesn’t sound familiar to you then good. It’s actually the first bruin, better known as an Oud bruin, that we’ve come across from a Japanese craft beer brewery. Songbird Maltina is part of Songbird Brewery’s autumn range of beers and first came out in October …
Brewery Songbird Information
Brewery Songbird, also known as Songbird Beer, is a Chiba based craft beer brewery, located in Kisarazu city, that opened in 2015. The owners, Kyohei and Monami Nakajima, received their license in April 2015 and have quickly established themselves as brewers of predominantly Belgian style craft beers, while also producing some other styles of European beers. Songbird Brewery beer’s can be bought …
Songbird Dark Lavender by Brewery Songbird
Songbird Dark Lavender is a 4% Belgian ale from Songbird Brewery that is part of their winter lineup of beers. It’s brewed using fresh, locally sourced lavender during the primary fermentation stages and then bottled without any added lavender, so there’s no chance of any particulates floating around in your beer. It’s available in bottled form only at the time …
Songbird Oatmeal Stout by Brewery Songbird
Songbird Oatmeal Stout is a 5% oatmeal stout from Brewery Songbird that is part of their winter range of beers. What makes it different from a regular stout is the addition of oatmeal during the mashing phase of the beer making process. Oatmeal stouts were popular in the middle of 20th century; however, they fell out of favour until Smith’s Brewery of Yorkshire …
Songbird Blonde by Brewery Songbird
Songbird Blonde is a Belgian blonde ale from Brewery Songbird that is part of their expanding range of Belgian style beers. It’s a 5% beer and is labelled as a session beer in the hope that you’ll drink lots of it, thus giving Brewery Songbird more money. It’s been seen on both tap and in bottled form but the bottles …
Songbird Golden Bitter by Brewery Songbird
Songbird Golden Bitter came as a surprise to us when Liquors Hasegawa emailed to say they had some limited bottles in stock of a new beer from Chiba and would we like some? The only brewery I could think of was Brewery Songbird, which opened in March 2015. Songbird Golden Bitter is a 5% English best bitter and is part of …
Songbird Summer Porter by Brewery Songbird
Wait, before you start writing furious emails to us, let us explain something. Songbird Summer Porter is 4.5% porter that bemused us as much as the Thrashzone Envenom, a barley wine, in summer too. I mean, don’t brewers know when the best season for their beer is? People want cool, refreshing beers in summer and not heavy, thick ones that are best …