Uncommon, Distinctive Japanese Beers? (merged threads)
Sep 12, 23, 8:11 pm
#62
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I had the chance to try some of the offerings from Baird Beer last summer, a couple of which I enjoyed including a mikan ale.
They are available in a few taprooms around Japan
They are available in a few taprooms around Japan
Taprooms are now in Osaka, Shizuoka, Hakuba, the main brewery in Izu, and three around Tokyo.
Sep 20, 23, 3:37 pm
#63
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You should check me out.
Anyway to convert to English via Google URL?
Went to a bunch of bars but Watering Hole was awesome and had AWESOME gyoza: https://goo.gl/maps/LdPTNrohyNK3TDdU6
Went to a bunch of bars but Watering Hole was awesome and had AWESOME gyoza: https://goo.gl/maps/LdPTNrohyNK3TDdU6
I tend to go there on Sundays, since Popeye is not open, and I probably spent the earlier portion of the day photographing cosplayers {low-angle} in Akihabara. 
It is actually quite close to the Shinjuku-Sanchome station on the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin and Marunouchi lines [Exit E8], so if you do not have a J.R. pass, instead opting for a Tokyo Metro Open Ticket, you can get there.
Chuwy is very much alive and well and comments on beer all the time on Facebook.
There is a lot of good info via Rob Bright's Beer Tengoku https://beertengoku.com/
There is a lot of good info via Rob Bright's Beer Tengoku https://beertengoku.com/
Psst, bunky, if you had clicked through to my bookmark page, you would have glimpsed BeerTengoku on it. I have made several replies to its posts. I have a 10-beer frequent drinker card from Baird Brwy. If you dig deeply enough on-line (which, if you haven't bothered to actually click on the link to my bookmark page, you won't locate), you might find the photographs I took of its first anniversary in Naka-Meguro in May 2009 (My first jaunt there with a camera.).
Sep 20, 23, 8:05 pm
#64
Join Date: Jul 2010
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I forgot, I did a couple of good beer places in Osaka:
- Yellow Ape (which has a DIY pouring config): https://maps.app.goo.gl/N7wU9xSC5u4tZ8vk8 (was in a business area but close to the Conrad Osaka)
- Beer Belly Tosabori: https://maps.app.goo.gl/N7wU9xSC5u4tZ8vk8 (also close to the Conrad Osaka - part of the Minoh Brewery I believe) - they also had pretty cheap pours of whisky
- WCB Dark Lab: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BcNVQpXNhgbYASQZ7 (which was across the street from the small Yakitori: 焼鳥 サイヒ
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/wcb_shinsaibashi/ - they had some awesome beers and I wish we could have drank there longer
- West Coast Brewing has a few different locations in Osaka: https://www.westcoastbrewing.jp/
