Today a place that I was going to save and add to the next digest post, but maybe feels like it deserves a post of its own. There’s not a great deal to say though, so it will be very brief and all condensed into one paragraph. Maybe this is a good way to go…
Today we visit the first iBrew bar outside of Tokyo. Some people have long been calling for an iBrew in Yokohama and their dream has now come true. I visited the bar on the first Saturday it was open as I had a football match in Yokohama later that afternoon. The match was terrible so…
Golden Week and two football away games gave us the excuse to take an extremely indirect route back home from Fukuoka via Kyoto, visiting plenty of Shimane places on the way. We crossed into Tottori briefly, but the place we went to there was a Belgian beer bar, and having visited no other places, it…
Written by James Craft Beer Toca is a new bar in Kichijoji. It’s only 30 seconds from Inokashira Koen Station but it’s also very walkable from Kichijoji station, especially if you are going to Inokashira Koen. There are two floors. The first floor was stylish with an L-shaped counter but was standing only. The second floor…
Once again, it’s been a while since the last digest post and there are loads of places that are on my backlog list again. If you want to see all of the digest posts and find out a little bit about places that we are yet to make it to, please check the digest category…
Cycad brewing is the new brewery started by Gremlin in the premises that was formerly Snark Liquidworks. James wrote about Snark here and I thought I’d leave his old post up with a note directing people here as there are still some similarities between what was Snark and now is Cycad and I’m not just…
Written by James Ushigome Beerkan is a brewpub which is close to both Kagurazaka and Ushigome stations. There aren’t any visible beer tanks but the beer is brewed on site. There are six taps which are all their own beers. The beer label is Shingetsu (New Moon) not Ushigome Beer. The styles don’t all stay…
Reverb is the newly opened bar, (and at some stage in the future brewpub), of the people behind Novel Craft in Chitose Karasuyama. I say at some stage as more often than not the time between opening the bar and actually getting the brewery going seems to extend to an unbelievable length (here’s looking at…
Written by James Taproom Pherment is a nice new brewpub with daytime opening which is about four minutes walk from Shinjuku-Gyoenmae or Shinjuku-Sanchome. It is actually inside Vector Brewing’s brewing room. Vector Brewing is still alive and well but they have rented some tanks out to Pherment. Vector Brewing has a lot of tanks and…
Albirex Niigata’s return to J1 meant that once again I was off to Niigata for an away game. It’s been a while so was nice to go back! The game was perhaps one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen from my team though, so that part wasn’t much fun. But we did get the…