Enjoy is a place that I have walked past a few times but had never entered till this visit. I’d always been intrigued by some of the things on their taplist, (which they post outside, an excellent idea, I think!), and the look of some of the bottles in their fridge. This time I was…
The second place we went to in Hamura was Beer Bar Wildz. I really want to say Wildz by name and Wildz by nature but given that we went in shortly after opening, I can’t say if that is in any way accurate. Wildz seems to have recently celebrated their 13th anniversary, which is really…
Ladybirds is a bottle shop and bar located in Tsukiji. I was slightly intimidated before I went there as they seemed to have a lot of house rules on their Instagram. I’d recommend that you check them before you go. But I shouldn’t have worried as it was a very nice and relaxing place to…
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,…
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…
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 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 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…
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…