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TDM 1874's British Head Brewer George Juniper started his craft beer brewing journey at Dark Star Brewing in England before comin...

This Nagano brewery started out as a public/private joint venture back in 1994. The first two decades brought uneven success. Ini...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a popular outdoor resort town with a glacier-fed river running through the center is home to...

Okayama Prefecture lies in a sleepy location in Western Japan blessed by great weather. This is perhaps the biggest reason the ar...

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

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

Tucked in a tiny corner of Shinjuku, about a seven-minute walk from the South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station (although technically s...

I have known about the Meguro Tavern for years, considering it one of Tokyo’s better and more authentic English pubs, particularl...

Ushitora is a great craft beer bar in one of Tokyo’s great drinking neighborhoods, Shimokitazawa. The area is equally accessible ...

This one was a squeaker. We have been waiting for years for the new Devil Craft Brewing to come on line, and after a few sputteri...

Kiuchi Shuzo, an Ibaraki sake brewer with nearly 200 years of history, has become well known as one of Japan’s better microbrewer...

One of the most beautiful and scenic coastlines in Japan is certainly the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. Naturally, it is...