craft beer japan

RACES Sea to Summit The last two events of the year’s popular outdoor series take place in Miyagi and Nagano. Experience au...

In nearly every brewery taproom you’ll find T-shirts, caps and other merchandise. The beer comes first, but the branded merch...

Hibiya Oktoberfest When: July 8-18Where: Hibiya Park, TokyoWeb: oktober-fest.jp  Numazu Fishmarket 22nd Anniversary Ba...

While I am a proud perennial cider drinker, I will concede that autumn is certainly the season when cider’s magic is best experie...

Chris Poel is the former lead brewer at Baird Brewing. He recently branched out on his own to open Shiokaze BrewLab and the S...

Shinya Suzuki is a brewmaster in Yokohama with a sharp sense of dedication. On his brewery’s website, there is the stated goal of...

Umenishiki is an old-line sake brewery founded in the 5th year of the Meiji Period (1872). They received their license to brew be...

The most exciting (and controversial) style this past year in the beer world has been the NE IPA. Standing for either the Northea...

When Gareth Burns, a 32-year-old from Philadelphia, decided to start a brewery up in Tohoku, the most northern region of Honshu, ...

Ian Miller came to Japan to snowboard when he was 19.  “I was really into snowboarding and met so many Japanese people ba...

Soon after Baird Beer was founded, it rapidly established a reputation as one of the best microbreweries in Japan. Not only was t...

Many of our readers already know that Vancouver, Canada, is a great urban base for outdoor activities. This beautiful city is sur...