Walking in to El Borracho on a Monday evening around 8:30, I was surprised to find it quite busy. Located in the popular new Coredo building complex in Shin-Nihonbashi, it’s an upscale Mexican restaurant serving traditional dishes. Lively groups of business people made up the majority of the crowd, but there were a few couples…

Although cities like San Diego, CA and Asheville, NC grab headlines as meccas of America’s ongoing craft beer movement, the Pacific Northwest is actually one of America’s most established strongholds of delicious, hand-crafted beer. According to statistics from the Brewers Association, in many parts of this corner of America, more people drink craft beer than…

On Friday, May 22, the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo held an event to announce that Swedish craft brewers will be throwing their collective hats into somewhat crowded Japanese craft beer market. Ambassador Magnus Robach opened the event with a warm welcome to the guests and led the group in a toast to the tasting session…

Kisarazu, Chiba More and more often we get to welcome a new brewery to the scene. Kyohei and Monami Nakajima recently received their brewing license and started brewing at Brewery Songbird, which they describe as a “nanobrewery”. They currently plan to focus on Belgian and other European styles, and will sell in both kegs and…

On March 19th the Belgian Embassy had its yearly press conference to announce the agenda for the 6th annual Belgian Beer Weekend 2015. Kicking off in Nagoya on April 23, the festival will tour seven cities in Japan ending in Tokyo in September. In addition to Nagoya and Tokyo, the festival will be stopping at…