Howdy, Chris here.
I just ran across an article on the Huffington Post website about the Boston Beer Company (the Sam Adams people) and their fight to remain designated as “craft beer.” While being able to call yourself a craft brewery is important in attracting beer enthusiasts, as is so often the case, the real issue [...]

Howdy, Chris here.
In Tokyo, the most famous craft beer pub is Popeye. Located about a minute walk from Ryogoku Station on the JR Sobu Line, Popeye was the first Baird Beer account outside of our home base at the Fishmarket Taproom in Numazu, back when Bryan was still brewing 30 liters at a time on [...]

This year I have begun writing a series of four articles on craft beer for a niche Japanese sake industry trade publication called Sake Bunka. The first article was published in the June issue.  I thought I would share the English versions with you here.  The first one is copied below (subsequent articles will focus on [...]