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From: Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: Beer, as in Japanese craft beer
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:22:16 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 3, 12:52=A0am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 2, 1:49?pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > > Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Now that I have your attention.. :-)
> > > > Any recommendations? I've been sampling various craft beers from
> > > > mostly central Japan and Hokkaido (for a while now), but would love=
 to
> > > > try something new.
>
> > > Coralhaus, out of Yokohama makes a nice "dark" beer, as well as some
> > > other decent ones.
> > Will keep an eye out.
> > > Oh, and have you seen this?
>
> > >http://beerme.com/index.php
> > I hadn't. Usually use this onehttp://www.beertaster.org
> > Thinking of going to the Great Japan Beer Festival on June 5-6th up in
> > Tokyo at Ebisu Garden Hall. If I can get away with it I'll turn it
> > into a business trip. Its always best to drink on a tax deductible
> > basis.
>
> Last trip to Tokyo (a couple years ago) I was actually impressed by the
> quality of pizza (we had the Margarite) at the Ebisu Garden Hall. A nice
> match for the beer :-)

Most of the brewed-on-the-premises-brewpubs seem to have pretty decent
food. Not gourmet blah blah but good beer food. Usually (ie in the
course of tax deductible activities) I go to Nagahama (Shiga),
MinamiShinshuu (Nagano), Hakodate (Hokkaido) and Baird's (Shizuoka).
Trying to extend the range a bit at the mo.