Caliquors Tokyo West is the sister bar of similarly named Caliquors Tokyo in Kanda, but this time it’s in Chitose Funabashi, about three minutes from the station. I really like the Kanda branch so I was quite pleased to hear that a new branch had opened about the same distance from my place in the…
Today, a place I probably thought I would never make it to. Kawaguchi isn’t very far from Tokyo, but at the same time, it wasn’t really on my list of places to go. From my very limited experience of going there, it seemed like quite a nice place, so more fool me for not putting…
For once I can actually use the phrase ‘newly opened’ and not be criticised for having a loose grip on the passing of time. Inabazu was opened a few months ago and is a small brewpub about 10 minutes walk from Inadazutsumi station, just over the Tama river in Kawasaki. It’s probably not an area…
Today we have a moderately new brewery in Kawasaki, not too far from Mizonokuchi station but actually closer to Takatsu. (I was going to say newly opened, but they were celebrating their first anniversary when we visited… Clearly I don’t get to new places as quickly as I used to). I’d heard mixed things about…
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…
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…
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. EDIT: It’s brewing now, see the update paragraph at the bottom), 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…