Last one of the year and a few things since I last blogged. All tried, all good, some great. And then there was this. Found it, loved it, have some stashed. Might even tie with Polar Vortex as my favourite of their beers this year…
And, as promised, craft beer post number 2 playing catch-up on the last couple of months. Some stuff I liked included: You might remember me asking about the availability of Japanese craft beers in Ireland after my trip there. Very few it seems apart from this lovely which you can get in Yamamori… Celtic Warrior is new and they were kind enough to drop me in some. Nice and well worth your time… Same goes for O’Hara’s sending me this – I liked it so much I went out and bought some more… And then there’s these 3 babies – […]
Because, perversely, when your work week changes and you now have Monday and Tuesday off you should have tons of time to write things on the internet, but you find yourself fixing the taps, cleaning the windows and reading more books instead. Apologies. With the exception of the posts about Japan and Korea and the one about the Craft Beer Festival I haven’t written one about just actual beers I’ve been drinking since July! Seems I have over 30 beers to post so one here and another in a few days. Stuff I have tried that you might like as […]
Then it was the last part of our trip, a few days in the capital of Korea (they don’t call it South Korea over there, understandably…) First was the local (to our hotel, anyway) branch of Craftworks Taphouse. See here bars and restaurants under office blocks, bus stations and the like tend to be grimy, ugly, scary experiences but not so in Japan and Korea. They’re a chain, very nice food, very solid range of their own beers and guest ones from other breweries too… We ended up over in Itaewon one night and had two vastly differing experiences. I’d […]
The third city on our trip through Japan was a little craft beer and a little genuinely bizarre surprises… The one place that seemed to be recommended (Hiroshima is a relatively small city) was Rakubeer. Upmarket looking, very clean lines inside and very nice beers (that American Wheat IPA from Johana Beer was a doozy). Again, worth spending a few hours in. Then that lead to the most surreal of all beer experiences on the trip… I saw this poster in the toilet: Yah hah. An Oktoberfest in the blazing sunshine in the middle of Hiroshima just opposite the A-Bomb Dome… Imagine […]
Right so. I can safely say I wasn’t expecting to write a series of posts on craft beer pubs and bars in Japan and Korea when I left to go there on holidays. However, needs must and when one wants a few beers in said cities the first thing you do (well, I did!) was to Google the local locations to see what came up. These posts are designed to help you the same way the posts I came across helped me; hope they’re useful. Tokyo To be honest we had very little time to experiment here. Night 1 was […]