Stop number four on my Chuo line pub crawl and there was something of a feeling that I was building towards the highlight of the day. I’m pleased to say that Sakamichi didn’t let me down and was a really nice place to have some really nice beers. I’m getting old and I’m perpetually skint,…
Month: August 2023
Craft! Kunita-Chika
Today, part three of the great Chuo line catch-up-with-places-I-haven’t-visited-that-have-been-open-for-ages pub crawl. I don’t know why, but this place has always kind of intrigued me. I think it might have something to do with the pun in the name, which accurately portrays the fact that the place is both in Kunitachi and in the basement. In…
26K Brewery
My second stop along the Chuo line was Musashisakai station, to visit 26K Brewery. If I hadn’t been checking my map closely I might have missed it, as the taproom is inside a multipurpose space combined with a coffee roaster and cafe. I was a bit unsure, but when I peered through the door and…
OGA Brewing Cafe
With a Sunday afternoon in front of me with the only plan being going to a record shop in Koenji, I decided to finally tick off some Chuo line places that had been on my backlog list for a long time. Perhaps common sense would have dictated that I go to one station and tick…
Another8 Corner
Another8 Corner is the sister bar of Another8 in Meguro, which in turn was a spin off from Before9 in Kyoto, which has now closed. I went to the Meguro branch once to put it on this site but have never been back since. There’s just too much choice nowadays I guess. I can’t remember…
Sanity Gakugeidaigaku
It seems a bit weird for me to add Sanity’s smaller branch in Gakugeidaigaku before properly writing up their main branch in Sangenjaya which has only appeared on a digest post, but hey ho, that’s how things go sometimes, I guess. I’d say that Sanity quite accurately represents a style of beer place that is…