Event Japanize and new beers.

 The rain in the midnight brought a very cold morning.
 We started a fire in our new stove.

  Tomorrow, we will attend the event "Japanize" in Takamatsu city, Kagawa.
 There are many attractive shops and it is held in a beautiful place.
 Let's get the beer!

  The bottle shop in Kisarazu will be open this week as usual.
  We have some new beers.
  The new batch of Brett - TABLE BEER #23, Bière de Garde, Giono.
  In total 7 kinds of beers.

  Happy Thanks Giving!

Kawamura Memorial DIC museum of Art

　We really appreciate everyone who went to the KADARUBE Craft beer festival.
   The event was postponed because of a typhoon but we were glad to hear that it was well attended.

　We will be at another event in November.
 The details are coming soon!

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   We went to Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art last week.
This is a great museum in Chiba pref., so I want come here over and over again.

There are few customers and it is peacefully silent.
Some swans and ducks were in the pond just like a fairy tail.
There is also a park where you can see some big art works too.

This museum was opened in 1990.
The presidents of this ink company collected the works of great artists of the 20th century, including Picasso, Monet, Rembrandt and American artists in recent years.

We love to see the works of Picasso, Pissaro or Renoir.
And we loved a new room displaying only 2 works of Cy Twombly called "Twombly room".

Our favorite is the "Rothko room" where you can see seven works of Mark Rothko.

We felt the power and enjoyment of the arts.

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We visited a peanut shop called "Masuda" after the museum.
Yotsukaido city is famous for peanuts and it is harvest season.
You can see the peanuts drying on road. 

There are so many places we want to visit in this area.

We will visit them next time.

≪ Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art ≫

　Address : Sakato 631 Sakura City, CHIBA
　Business Hour : 9：30-17：00
　Closed: Monday（Open on holiday and close on next day of the holiday）

New beers.

 We open our bottle shop as always, 12:00~19:00,Fri/Sat/Sun.

 Our previous camera was broken, so we bought new one, strted using today.

 We have 4 kinds of beer this week. Blonde and Wheat are back on the shelf!

 We also have new beers for this season.

 ♪ Summer Orange and Ginger … We used local summer orange and Ginger to brew this wheat beer. We also used some local unmalted wheat, so beer is cloudy.

For summer orange we try to buy from the same person every year. we asked her let oranges on the tree as long as possible. we used whole oranges, meaning not only peel, but juice and white pith. This beer has citrusy (zesty) aroma, a touch of sourness, dry-ginger taste, of course Belgian yeast notes...and so on.

 We made this beautiful label !!

 The label was based on a top of the mountain in Kimitsu-city and our customer, who likes to go there by bike. Kaii Higashiyama got his inspiration for his "Afterglow" from the same mountain. Summer Orange tree is imaginary. This picture is not only about beautiful mountains but the friendship between our customer and his bicycle.

 The other new beer is

 ♪ Le Orage… The name means "Lightning" in French. This Belgian brown ale has firm maltiness, but a little bit more bitter than usual belgian brown ale to make it dry enough for the warm weather.

 We will attend Sangyo-sai in Anegasaki,Ichihara on 20th.

 Our bottle shop will be open as usual, too.

 Enjoy your weekend !

 We cleaned and repainted our signboard.
 It's much better now!!

Back from Kyoto

 We passed many mountains and rivers, and we came back to Kisarazu from Kyoto last night.

  We traveled for 4 days. It has been longer than we expected because we visited some people on the road.

   It rained a lot during Kyoto craft beer festa, unfortunately .
 However, The event was crowded all day long.

 We thank everyone involved in the event.

 We had many people come to our place and said "we heard about Songbird from......" We are very grateful that we felt supported even in Kyoto.

 We did some chores today....
 We found some of our vegetables in the garden were eaten by bugs, wondering if we re-plant some or not. we will go back to be normal little by little.

Craft Beer Festa Kyoto 2018

　We will travel to the west after work today.
   We will close our bottle shop May 12 and 13 to attend an event Craft Beer Festa Kyoto  2018.　

   The Organizer updated the Map of fest. Please have a look at it ! (Japanese)

　 It has been 2 years since we attended this event last time.
   We are a little nervous about such a big event, but we hope we will enjoy it. 　
　
   Our booth is near the park.
   Please come out to the event!　
　
　
　

At Yuharappa.

We had a nice marche called "Sunday marche of Yuharappa"  in Tsukuba.
Thank you very much for attending event.

Nice Italian cuisine by Osteria Luce, Fresh strawberrys, Italian breads which fermented with yeasts in the are,,, We had enjoy for good foods and nice location.

 The day was 11th March, so we had collected donations to The Great East Japan Earthquake.
  We donated the fund 13550yen to Ashinga ORG for children who lost or missing their parent by tsunami.
 More than 2000 children (under 18 years old ) are standing in this difficult situations by earthquake.
 Thank you for your corporations.

It still rain outside.
We will open national holiday of 21st March too.
Have a nice weekend and holiday!

Event in March.

　It is warm and nice weather in Kisarazu.
   Good for picnic but hard to breath by hay fever.
   We wonder why there is pollen so much in Kisarazu??
 
   We have two informs about event in march.
　

3rd March　KURURI OTONA NO ASOBI BA　Open 16:00~

　　
          This is a live session of Chop-stick Piano and Original instrument by two American artists.
You must say What is Chop-stick Piano?? Original instrument??
It is a free style music like noise. (And The artists are based on Jazz.)
Beautiful sounds and easy, much of fun music.
Please enjoy new music and beer!!

  Live starts at 19:00~
 And 4th March will held Fresh Sake Festival.
 You can enjoy 5 sake brewery in Kururi town too!

 And one more thing,
　　

Sun 11st March 　Sunday marche of Yuharappa

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　　　Place : 2-10-9 Matsushiro, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki

Time : 11:00~15:00

This is a small marche organized by la stalla which is Italian Restaurant and their Friends.
Luckily, Italian restaurant in Tokyo called Osteria Luce invited us.
Tsukuba is gourmet city because some good companies based in Tsukuba, like Italian Bio wine importer, Organic cheese importer, and many restaurant and shops are opens in this city. 
You will have a lot of good food and drinks at this event.
 ( Our bottle shop will be closed on the day.）

 Have a nice weekend and be careful for pollen!

Hirosaki, Kadarube Craftbeer Fes

We had attended to Kadarube Craftbeer Fes 2017 in Hirosaki,

 Aomori last weekend.

It was a nice day for beer.

 

For us it was a first visit to Aomori.

This was the entrance of the festival.

It was a very nice place !

We were open 12:00. Until 1:00, The Festival was full.

There were four breweries, serving 21 kinds of beers.
We met a men who drank all of it.

Some local restaurants served foods.
We had been interested in Sushi restaurant.
It was very nice sushi since Hirosaki is near the ocean.


We usually serve light beers at events,　but we served some beers more than 7% alcohol.

It's good for us to feel the city of Hirosaki and
serve beers directly to customers.

Thank for  everyone who came to the event.
Also Thank for who organised the event ,
especially Yanagita-shoten,degusta!

Kadarube Crafteer Fes 2017

Chestnuts, Osmanthus Flowers, Red Spider Lily...

Fall gets deeper while we think about enjoyment this season.

( We had enjoyed the new harvested rice! )

And the air gets cooler in our town.

September 30th and October 1st, we will close our bottle shop for

Kadarube Craftbeer Fes 2017 which held in Hirosaki City, Aomori.

We just sent our beers to this event last year.

We are looking forward to serving our beers this year.

And we will bring some appetizers too!

     Meet us at Kadarube! 

Beer Garden at Fromage SEN.

A perfect sunny day of Otaki.

We are going to have a beer garden event here!

Fromage SEN is small creamery shop only one day open a month.

Old Japanese house is the shop and beer garden stood by it.

We had 3 Tap beer and 3 kinds bottle beer for to go.

We need procedure for selling bottle beer outside of brewery.

But it was worth for driving customers.   

There were nice food too.

Onigiri shop made with local ISUMI rice, nori (dryed seaweed), salt.

Shop called "Kattan"!

　
 It was really really delicious!
 We tried almost flavor.

 Favorite was "wild rice" and
"Ume".
　

 And Yakitori from "ASAGAO".

It was also goood...
charcoal grilled chicken yakitori are perfect match with beer! 

There is pasture behind the creamery and cows were eating grass.
The barn was clean and no bad smells. Cows looks relaxing.

SEN making cheese with their milk.
She doesn't control milk density in all season.
It's because her cheese taste plain and natural.

Performance by calligrapher Baba and singer song writer Kana Matsumoto started in sunset. Beautiful Bamboo lanterns was created for today.

   Many people visited to small town for good cheese.
   We had so much fun.
　Thank you very much for visiting this event!　

Local creamery "SEN" and invitation for beer event.

There is a nice local creamery called "Fromage Sen" in Otaki Town.
The small creamery is running by a female cheese maker.
Only one day open every month.
She make some cheeses most of fresh type and those are soft mouth feel, mild sourness, well balanced and natural.

The picture is cheeses bought last autumn.
"Take-sumi" Her flagship one. Seasonal fresh cheese which maple leaf on top.
And "black pepper".  

Rest "Take-sumi"few more week in refrigerator.

Cheese get wrinkles for loosing its moisture.

We got chance to attend her lecture about story of her creamery and cheese making couple month ago.

We really impressed about her passion for cheese and

 story of woman open creamery by herself.

Now we became good friend, She always powerful and give us many energy.

We are going to held event at her creamery.

Yakitori ,Onigiri shop are also attend!

< Beer Garden in Old Japanese House ＞

August 6th SUN　11:00～20:30

We will closed our Bottle Shop on Aug 6th. 

You can shop for cheese and bottle beer.

Please join!

Fruit trees in the farm

 Thank you for coming to Tap Takeover at Beer Pub Ishii last Saturday.

We had many customers despite it was terrible weather.
And we are enjoying to find someone's post about the event in SNS too.
We really thank to Beer Pub Ishii, Liqours NODAYA and all.

  Rain had stopped in this morning.
  We have to do laundry !
　
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     We get up earlier than before since we had Chickens to my home.
     And we get more time for to do my farm.
　　
     Some photos of trees in the farm.　　
　

      A Japanese plum.
      Flower blossomed so earlier than usual. But its bears some plum.
     The amount was not enough for beer but could make Umeboshi ( Japanese pickles ).
　　
　　　

　My neighbor's tree of loquat.

   Loquat is a fruits juicy and sweet, native to China.
　It gonna be good harvest !

 

It's Cherry. Grown well. 

We couldn't harvest any fruits last year we don't know the reasons.

So we hope we'll get good harvest for beer.

Mosquito seasons will come soon...

Why they are exist ? 

 mmmm.. 

≪ Information ≫

21st May on Saturday, 

We will attend a Local Festival of Anegasaki

with Furukawa Shoten. 

Please visit!

Tap Takeover at Beer Pub Ishii 2nd !!

Thank you for visiting our brewery while Golden Week.

It was nice weather and tanned little bit.

It's beer season!!

This Saturday, we will attend to 

Songbird Taptakeover at Beer Pub Ishii.

It's second takeover of our beer. We really apriciate it.
And our bottle shop will be Open 12pm to 19pm too.

　SONGBIRD TAP TAKEOVER at Beer Pub Ishii

Date : 13th May（sat）

　　Place : Beer Pub Ishii　　Yanaka 3-19-5 Taito-ku, Tokyo　　

We will bring some new beer with brettanomyces.
Brewer will be pub too.
See you on Saturday!! 

Spring!

Getting warmer day by day. Spring is almost there ! 

We will OPEN till Monday 19th March  12:00~19:00.

This weekend, Special event is holding at Beer Bar MARUMARU Okachimachi.

7 kind of SONGBIRD on Tap !

A Original beer for MARUMARU " WHITTHÉ " Green tea wheat, 

MOTUEKA PALE ALE, Cuveè de Primtemps ...

Brewer will visits bar on Sunday afternoon.

Please Join us!

New label beer on picture is "Moderne" which is our Belgium Tripel.

Drawn a fantasy city of 1930's that Belgium Tripel was brewed first time.  

Smooth mouth feel and rich aroma like Orange Curacao.

Please Try it too!

Tap Takeover!

 Thank you for attending to Tap takeover event at Beer Bar MARUMARU in Mishima last weekend.

  We brought 5 beers including a Original Beer for Beer Bar MARUMARU called "WITTHE" which was  brewed with Green Tea made in Shizuoka and Raw Wheat made in Chiba.

     

And one more special event will hold tomorrow.

Tap Takeover of Brasserie fantome and SONGBIRD

 at Hemel in Dogen-zaka, Shibuya.

Kegs of Fantome are very rare. We are looking forward it.
5 beers each both brewery will on tap.
 Songbird's Brewer will be there too!! See you then!

Panganaito

Lovery sunny Sunday, we went out for Otaki herb garden for bakery festival PANGANAITO.

Popular bakery in Boso area got together, also stores like handmade tableware,  book store,,,every store was decorated cute.

Small shopping street appeared in a huge greenhouse. 

It was like a scene of picture book.

We helped selling beer for Chosei-ya 

( is a great bottle shop in Chonan-machi ).

　This sign board is we got from rock bar SONGBIRD, Used ran in Tsudanuma.

A cute kitty visited us.

Do you want a beer?

Our neighbors were "Kurasho" which is a fusion japanese restaurant and 

"merle" which is a french restaurant.

Kurasho made foods to pair with each kind of our beers.

　 "hakko clacker" was my favorite!
 (hakko means fermented)

Soy-sauce flavour was good with our hoppy wheat, Houblanc.

We loved merle's display! 

and their "meat croquette" is their specialite.

Their original homemade dressing, mustard, mixed spice are displayed too.

Everyone looked enjoying eating breads,

taking walk around, shopping in ease atmosphere. 

 we sold out our beer!

Thank you for visiting our booth.

We will attend more events in February,

announce it in the next post.