We have been struggling to sell beer in our home prefecture of Shizuoka for 10 years now.  Until recently, we could count on one hand the number of establishments retailing Baird Beer within the prefecture.  Fortunately, this barren terrain has become more verdant of late, with a host of  restaurants newly retailing Baird Beer in our home city of Numazu (thanks in large part to the tireless proselytizing work of our friends at Serizawa Saketen), the opening of former Taproom Tencho Yokota-san’s Baird Beer retailing pub, Beer Yokota, in Shizuoka city, and the very recent debut opening of the  Baird Beer specialty pub in Hamamatsu called  Beer House Tir nan-Og.

Beer House Tir nan-Og is of special significance to us because it is the labor love of our great friend, and Baird Brewing investing owner-partner, Yoshiko Oishi and her husband Hiro.

Daughter Sachiko helping out pouring Baird Beer pints

Yoshiko and Hiro lived in Numazu at the time that Sayuri and I opened the Fishmarket Taproom.  They had been recently smitten with the Belgian beer bug and were introduced to our Belgian-beer retailing Taproom (our brewing license was yet to be granted and we were selling an array of bottled Belgian and American beers) by, once again, the good folks at Serizawa Saketen.  Well, it is no exaggeration to say that we immediately hit it off and Yoshiko and Hiro became ardent Taproom patrons, close friends of our family and passionate Baird Beer enthusiasts.  This passion become so heated that they lost all sense of reason and actually invested hard-earned funds into Baird Brewing Company at the time of our building of the Nakameguro Taproom.

This, of course, is not the end of the story, but just the beginning.  Their passion for good beer and fresh food and meaningful human camaraderie so engulfed them that they used Hiro’s retirement pension bonus to build a gorgeous Baird Beer pub in their hometown of Hamamatsu called Beer House Tir nan-Og.

The Carpenter & Sayuri Celebrate Tir nan-Og's Opening

Built by our Taproom carpenter (and friend and fellow Baird Brewing owner-partner), Nagakura-san, Beer House Tir nan-Og enjoys a fantastically warm and intimately un-hewn environment, much like the personality of Yoshiko-san who runs the pub with her trademark gregarious personality and generosity of spirit.  The fifteen taps of Baird Beer serve as mere lubricant to the conviviality that you will always find in abundance here.

Beer House Tir nan-Og is located in a very stylishly quaint section of Hamamastu that is only a several minute walk from JR Hamamatsu station.  The business hours are from 6:00 pm on weekdays and 3:00 pm on Saturday, Sunday and National Holidays.  It is closed on Tuesdays.  There is as of yet no website but you can give them a call at:  053-450-6006.

Note: You can find a map to the pub here (please copy and paste into your browser): http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101863005841847280713.0004883e2adb8b1e25c11&z=17

Please pay Yoshiko and Hiro a warm visit sometime in the near term.

Cheers!  Bryan

Blissfully Contented Patrons