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There are lots of places in Japan, especially Tokyo and Osaka, that have great craft beer -- food too, if you're into that. More opening all the time, so by the time you get here in September, there will be a whole slew of new ones. Check out...

For lots of information about Japanese craft beer and good craft beer pubs, check out japanbeertimes.com -- they also have an app (iPhone and Android) that lists over 300 pubs all around Japan that serve good beer, with maps, some reviews, and even some special offers.

Not exactly -- there is a vibrant homebrewing underground here in Japan, both among foreigners and Japanese. Yes, it's illegal to brew anything that's over 1% alcohol (not 2%), but as long as you don't call attention to yourself or try to sell it, no one will bother you. I was a homebrewer for...

Japan. Moved here from the States 30 years ago. But I no longer brew at home since I started by pro life two years ago. I know, Traitor!

My pleasure. :P

Glad you like the Suruga Bay Imperial IPA -- that's a fun one for us to brew. (I'm the lead brewer at Baird Brewing.) Suruga Bay uses lots of Columbus, Simcoe, Centennial and Amarillo hops, and is double dry hopped with all four of those -- at least one week in the first conditioning tank and...

The info I got from the office manager today is that the beers are imported by a company called Boutique Beverage Distributors in Melbourne. The latest shipment included the following. 633 ml bottles -- West Coast Wheat Wine -- Carpenter's Mikan Ale -- Dark Sky Imperial Stout -- Temple Garden...

Andrew, Congrats. Keep up the good work. I just had a quick look at the winners, and there are three Australian breweries that won. Category 14 Gluten Free Beer (10 Entries) Silver O'Brien Brown Ale O'Brien Brewing Bakery Hill, Australia Category 50: Other Belgian-Style Ale (35 Entries) Gold...

Doc -- and everyone -- thanks. Not my recipes, but I have done quite a few of my own that have been well received. Next World Beer Cup hopefully one of my own creations will get a prize. That's when I really have an excuse to trash my liver! That's one of the handicaps that overseas brewers...

Sorry for the blatant plug, but Baird Brewing, where I'm the lead brewer, took three gold medals in the 2010 World Beer Cup. It's the largest commercial beer competition in the world with over 3300 entries. Category 8: Specialty Beer (27 Entries) Country Girl Kabocha Ale Baird Brewing Co...

I only wish I had gotten my head stuck in a mash tun -- that might have actually been fun. Instead I was the lone brewer working today -- packaged our yearly wheat wine. 35 kegs (all filled one-by-one-by-hand) and 650+ bottles (633 ml) on our two-head filler, which is only one step up from a...

No stuck sparge today -- no damage at the brewery either, although our restaurant did suffer from four broken bottles of beer (out of several hundred that are stored there). I'll try to stop by more often now that I'm used to my new job and have a little time to relax most nights.

Sorry for digging up an old thread, but I've been busy the past few months -- 1 April I started a new job as lead brewer for Baird Brewing Co here in Japan. I'm down in Numazu, Shizuoka (just had a major 6.5 earthquake today) at our brewery, but we have two pub restaurants in Tokyo that might be...

Sorry I missed this topic when I was on vacation -- there are a lot of great IPAs in the States! Anyway, Steve provided a good list of places to try to find, and I'll add The Aldgate in Shibuya to the list -- for future reference. And NRB is definitely right about Baird -- great stuff! And in...

I was with you till I got to the hops. Hell, he wants something that's going to age well, right? Then don't wimp out on the hops -- use them all! Just dump all the hops in a bucket, mix them up, and then divide them into seven equal parts. Add at 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 and end of boil. By the...

Man, it sounds like you had a blast. Glad you got to Otaru -- great town and good beer. Next time you'll definitely have to plan a stop in Tokyo and Numazu -- Baird Beer is the best in Japan and Tokyo . . . well, Tokyo doesn't have the best beer, but it does have the best people. Steve and I...

Yeah, more pics! Especially some beer porn would make my day. :P

Mmmmm, Frankenbeer! :wacko: Yeah, stay away from CRAP! Drink real beer, even if it is industrial. As for Baird, great great stuff. If you make it to Beer Bear or Beer Belly, they will have at least some of the Baird beers.

I recently made a standard pale ale only using Saaz and it came out pretty good. At the same time, I made a Sterling pale ale as well, and I like that one better. What I'd recommend is bittering with Sterling (if you guys can get that) and maybe using Sterling at 20-30 minutes, and then finish...

Some of the homebrew shops I deal with regularly in the States are searching around for economical alternatives for overseas shipping. I'll pass on anything that they come up with.