Kanto Beer

Tsumagoi Kougen Irish Stout, besides having the best design of any beer I’ve seen for a long time, is a 4% dry stout from Tsumagoi Kougen Brewery. Even though it is advertised …

Atsugi Stout is a 6.5% English style stout from Atusgi Beer Company in Kanagawa and is part of the year-round range. It has also won two beer awards back in …

Kobushi Hana Belgium White, by Hanyu Brewery (not Hangover Brewery, as my spell-checker is determined to keep correcting it to) is a 5% witbier that is sometimes also sold under …

Tama no Megumi Pilsner could be considered THE original beer from Ishikawa Brewery as it’s a bottle-fermented German style pilsner based on the same recipe that the brewery first used back in 1888. …

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 …

Chateau Kamiya Dunkel is a 5.5% dunkel style beer from Ushiku Brewery that is part of their all year round range of beers. It’s brewed using malts only and can be …

Ishikawa Tokyo Blues was first released in 2015 as part of Ishikawa Shuzo’s move away from German style beer to the burgeoning craft beer market of IPAs and session ales. …

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 …

Yokohama Criollo Ale Ale is an unknown beer it seems according to Yokohama Beer as it doesn’t appear on their website and nor does it appear elsewhere in English publications. …

If you hadn’t guessed by now, German styles are pretty much the main styles of beers brewed in Japan and no other beers are made here. Of course, we’re lying …