The Brew Site
Here’s a beer festival worth checking out: the Fuji to Hood fest celebrates Oregon and Japanese collaborations and returns to Portland on Saturday, July 16. It takes place at Culmination Brewing and will be primarily outdoors, with 18 beer collaborations and one each cider and distiller collaboration. General admission is … Continue reading
During this year’s Oregon Brewers Festival, the International Tent welcomed six craft brewers from Japan for the first time, each bringing two of their beers to pour at the festival (except Iwate Kura Beer which only brought one). And on Thursday, the 28th during the OBF, Belmont Station hosted a meet-and-greet event with the … Continue reading
One of the goals of this Beer Advent Calendar is to offer up a variety of holiday beers from around the globe, and Japan is one of the countries that has been fairly under-represented in this regard, partially because Christmas in Japan is fairly different than here in the Western … Continue reading
A few months ago I received a review copy of a book that is not entirely about beer (but does include a good chapter on it): Drinking Japan (Amazon link). Since then I’ve been (slowly) making my way through it and overall I am very impressed with it. As the … Continue reading