East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 2 The second stop on my east Tokyo brewpub crawl was Beer Vista, not far from Kiyosumi Shirakawa station. The contrast between Beer Vista and Pherment was quite stark! In fact maybe I could just say that if you just read that entry and think about the opposite of the…
East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 1 (Part 2 here, parts 3 and 4 coming soon) It’s maybe a little bit late, but I feel like I’m starting 2026 at breakneck speed. After adding a couple of Hatagaya places last week, a free evening when I was kind towards the east of Tokyo presented the perfect…
After visiting Senne, it only felt right to tick off the other nearby craft beer place that I’d never visited. Loom had a very different feeling to Senne and if you combine those two places with Gremlin, you probably have something for every craft beer drinker in Hatagaya. Here’s what you need to know about…
I’ve been meaning to visit Senne for a while but was slightly nervous due to it looking like a kind of classy food focused place. People who know me will know that I don’t fit into either of those categories. Senne is run by the people who were behind Dig The Line Doors (which was…
Part 13! Unlucky for some. Actually maybe I’m the unlucky one as I suppose I should probably go back through all the old digest posts and check which places have closed down before I managed to visit them and remove them from this site. That’s next on my website to-do list. Other than that, here’s…
Today a place I briefly popped in to on the day they launched their first beers. I was intending to stay a bit longer but ended up getting slightly waylaid en route and in the end only had time for a couple of halves. Maybe this was a good thing for them as they seemed…
I had a great time visiting Viajero. This was for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a nice place with a fun atmosphere and good prices. Secondly it was the culmination of my self-enforced challenge to have a Japanese craft beer in every ‘shi’, ‘machi’ and ‘mura’ of Tokyo. I’m glad I saved it till…
As part of my ongoing quest to find new and interesting places to drink that are a bit off the beaten track, I discovered the Bierernst brewery. I’d never heard of it before so was quite intrigued and WAS even more so when I checked the kind of beers that they were making. Finding myself…
I know I am always talking about how slow I am off the mark when it comes to visiting new places for this site. In this case I have really exceeded myself. I never made it to this place when it was the Nakameguro Beer Boy, and have now only just made it to this…
I opened up this website today thinking I would add a new place to the Shiga digest post, only to find that there was no Shiga digest post. Perhaps this makes sense as the only other beer place I’d been in Shiga closed down after my visit. (After my visit, but not due to my…