2nd Collaboration beer with LIQUORS HASEGAWA.

　Cherry blossoms haven't fully blossomed yet in Kisarazu.....
  The weather has been unstable.

   We have lots of new beers coming out this month.

  The first one is the second collaboration beer with LIQUORS HASEGAWA in Tokyo station.

They specialize in Single malt whisky.
This beer is based on the flavor component of 80's Islay Whisky.
We paired 3 herbs with Peated malt to make an 8% Golden Strong Ale.

　It is a beer, but got its inspiration from Islay malt, especially that produced in the 80's.
 If you are interested, Please try it! 
　
　LIQUORS HASEGAWA　
　　https://www.liquors-hasegawa.com/SHOP/152890.html

   The beer is in stores now.
   We hope we will be able to go to Scotland someday.
   The label is cute with the Islay stamp.

　And Spring has come to our bottle shop too.

　

　

　♪ MOTUEKA PALE ALE … It is a 5 ABV Belgian pale ale with MOTUEKA hop from New Zealand.  You can drink it easily with muscat flavor of hops.

　♪ Le Orage … It is a Belgian Brown, which means "Lightning " in French.
　In Japan, March and April has a lot of rain, lightning, and windy days. 
 We imagine a brown color with the bitterness of hops against a dark sky with lightning in Spring.

   ♪ Cuvée de Printemps … It is a Belgian Golden Ale for Spring. Hops and yeast create a very fruity aroma. We used Saphire hops, the same as last year.

　In total, we have 8 kinds of beer.
   Have a nice weekend!

　

　

We will OPEN on Monday too.

The weather changes a lot recently.

We brewed the first batch of this year today.

We  will open our bottle shop until Monday this week.

The time is 12:00-19:00 as usual.

On Sunday, We will make MISO at car space of the brewery with customers.

So please be careful when parking.

The picture is hops for today's batch.
The hops are aged for a year. So the color turns sepia green by oxidation.
But smells good.

The Winter is a season for wild brews for us.
We are exited about it.
Have a nice weekend!

A Happy New Year!

　Happy new year to all!
　
　We wish your 2019 will become a great year.
　And We hope our beer will be so too.

  Cheers!

　

　　

Holiday beers and Schedules of the holiday.

Thank you for visiting the Japanize event in Kagawa.

The Christmas holidays are coming soon.

We released 2 kinds of Christmas beer and Imperial Stout!

≪ New beers and schedule for holiday ≫

　♪ MALTINA　Yuzu and vanilla  SOLD OUT

　♪ MODERNE　Brown sugar and Yuzu  SOLD OUT

    Both use local grown Yuzu citrus and Brown sugar from Amami Island.

 These beers pair nicely with Christmas and New year's meals.

 We brewed in December 2017, and aged for a year.

 You will catch hints of yuzu and vanilla. The mouthfeel is rich with the sweetness of the grains.　　

  ♪ Imperial Stout … This beer also aged for a year.

Our Imperial Stout is fermented by Belgian yeast.

It is very fruity like raisins and more balanced than last years batch.

 Enjoy with dark chocolate or baked goods.

　

　In total,  10  8 kinds of beer on the shelf.
The beers look like a family.

   The green days are open
   12：00~19：00.

   Enjoy your holidays!

　

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!

Looking back on this summer.

This summer was a little tough for us.
Some brewing tools broke and unexpected troubles happened.

  The biggest trouble was we couldn't buy bottles to fill the beer.
  Our bottle maker went completely out of stock.
  So we had to wait for the bottles to be produced for a month.

  We had beers we should bottling then, so we bought bottles that are a different shape from another supplier.

  Our beer filler was broken at the same time and we bought new one but the model changed and it is really hard to use...

  Many problems happened this summer.
 But now everything is alright.

 Now our bottle beers look different like the picture below.

 The bottle shape is different, but the amount is the same 330ml as before.
 We will use this temporary bottle for another month.
Sorry for any trouble this causes. Cheers!

We closed our bottle shop today.

We closed our bottle shop because of the typhoon today.
Sorry for inconvenience.

Ume beer. 9th June will be closed.

The rainy season has set in.

Hydrangeas in my yard are getting more beautiful in the rain.

  I love those colors.

 We couldn't harvest enough cherries and loquats for beer this season.
 The fruits got scratched so we couldn't use it.
 Instead, we picked a few for desserts.
 The freshness and sunlight gives a perfect taste.

We harvested a lot of Japanese apricots / ume this year.

It grows well every year. We usually use it for ume-boshi, a kind of pickles.

But we used them for the beer too.

We have two kinds of ume trees. A small ume tree and big ume tree. 

We used small ume for the beer because we prefer the smell of it.

Its taste will become sour by the acidity of ume.  We hope it will be nice.

　We will release Summer Porter from this week.

  There are 5 kinds of beer on the shelf.

　

  It is a low carbonated Belgian porter. It's roasty but not bitter and

 good for a hot and humid day.

Blueberry and Raspberry will be in season soon.

Check the local farmer's market if you visit Chiba.

Enjoy your weekend!

　

　≪ Infomation ≫

　We will close our bottle shop on 9th June.
Sorry for the inconvenience.　

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!!

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!　
　
　
　

Schedule of Golden Week.

　I could see the rice fields had irrigated for rice planting.
  And some fields are planted already.

    Big holidays called Golden Week will start from this weekend.
  It will be nice weather.

   We will announce schedule of holidays.
 OPEN hours is 12:00 ~ 19:00.

　　APR   27（fri）　　　　OPEN　
　　　　   28（sat）　　　　OPEN　　
　　　　   29（sun）　　　　OPEN
　　　　  30  (mon）　　　　OPEN

　　MAY　1（tue）　　　　CLOSED
　　　　   2（wed）　　　　CLOSED

　　　  　3日（thu）　　　　OPEN
　　　　  4日（fri）　　　　OPEN
　　　　  5日（sat）　　　　OPEN
　　　　  6日（sun）　　　　OPEN
　　
　　　Same as calendar.
　　　And we will closed our bottle shop MAY 12 and 13
        for Ji-Beer fes Kyoto 2018.

          We will release some new beer used local fruits.　
        These are good for holiday and early summer.

          Please visit Chiba to see the flowers and nice rural scenery.
　　　 Enjoy your holidays♪　　　　

Thank you !!

We don't have much stock of beer and only two kinds of beer in the shop now.
Sorry for we haven't updated our blog too.
BLONDE is ready to sell and there are 3 kinds of beer in the shop now.

　

We finished brewing of our wild beer by the end of March.
We brewed 3 times in this season.
The beer is fermented with wild yeast caught from the air.
And it will ferment for a long time.
We hope it will be a good one.

We spend our time brewing our regular line and bottling.
We try to make our beer better every time. Nothing can be the same.

 And we will attend " Ji-Beer (Craft beer) Fes Kyoto 2018" for the first time in two years.
We missed a chance to attend it last year and we are looking forward to visiting Kyoto.　
　　
 One more news,
 Our limited license of Happo shu (Malt beverage license) is upgraded to a permanent license.
　　
　It had been passed for 3 years from when we got a limited license in 2015.
　We appreciate everyone who supports us.
 We hope we could be a brewery that supplies good beers now and in the future.
　　
   We will release a new beer called MOTUEKA PALE ALE from this weekend.
 It is using hop from New Zealand called Motueka. It has a white grape aroma, easy drink Belgian Pale Ale.

  Have a nice weekend!

　　

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!

New Batch of Brett - TABLE BEER.

 We forgot there is a national holiday this week.
 It is nice weather for a picnic!

 We would like to inform you of the day that we will close our brewery
 on March 11th for attending to event held in Tsukuba City.
 Please join the event "Sunday marche of YUHARAPPA". 

And, We released two new beers!

　♪ Brett - TABLE BEER #19 …

       We are using a new wild yeast with this beer. We cropped the yeast from flowers and airs around our yard. It includes just a few percent of our previous our wild yeast.
The aroma has the unique characteristic of flower pollen.It has a light mouthfeel.  

　　

　And another new one is 

　
　♪ Brett - TABLE BEER #15

       This #15 is secondary - fermented with our previous wild yeast.
 It was long bottle conditioned for over 8 months.
It is getting a more complex barnyard feel, and tastes sour.

 Please enjoy the flavour of yeast.
 Hace a nice weekend!  

　　

Schedules of HOLIDAYS and New Beers !

We had released two kind of Holiday beer brewed with Yuzu last year.
This year, we release Imperial Stout instead of them.

This year's Imperial stout was fermented with Belgian Yeast.
And We had tried to make it really really dark one.
Brewed on December 2016. Almost past 1 year.

The roastiness and bitterness of hops gets mild by long conditioned.
And aroma gets fruity like dried fruits or brandy cake.
You can enjoy it with room temperature and serve on brandy glass.


　♪ EXTRA … Malts, Hops, Yeasts.
                      All ingredients has more character than BLONDE.
                     Slight hoppy Belgian Ale. (6.5%)


　♪ MALTINA … Malty Belgian Brown.
　　　　　　　　 We used brown sugar from Amami-Island this year.
                         Rich and mild mouth feel and aroma. (7%)
　　　　　　　　
　 Bière de Garde、BLONDE、Wheat - WILD
  ( Bottle conditioned with our Kisarazu Wild yeast.) etc..

  6 kind of beers in total.

　

We will OPEN our bottle shop
until Dec 31st 2017.
Open from Jan 5th 2018.
Buissiness hour is 12：00-19：00 .

Have a happy holidays !

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! 

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!

Announcement of Day Closed

　This morning, Big red roses broom in my garden.
They looks like say Look at me!

 Japanese Plum and Cherry are getting grown.
 The harvest day will soon.

 Sometime we wish like we got more time for gardening!
 We are enjoying for everything about our garden.
Just feeding chickens or watching vegetables get growing.
It makes us ease and happy.

 ≪ Announcement ≫

We will close our bottle shop on
3rd (sat) and 24th (sat) June. 

　

　We will Open every Friday to Sunday
12:00-19:00 expect days above in June.

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 !
　
　　　　　　♪　　　　♪　　　　♪　　　♪

     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!

Our First SOUR BEERs !! and Schedules for holidays.

　
   Golden week will be sunny days
   and we hope everybody enjoying your holiday.

   We will open our bottle shop as below..
　　
　　　4/29（sat）　OPEN　　
　　　4/30（sun）  OPEN
　　　5/ 1（mon）　　CLOSED
　　　5/ 2  (tue）　　CLOSED
　　　5/ 3（wed）　OPEN
　　　5/ 4（thu）  OPEN
　　　5/ 5（fri）  OPEN
　　　5/ 6（sat）  OPEN
　　　5/ 7（sun）  OPEN

　　 OPEN hour is from 12:00 to 19:00.
　　
      and, we will announce new beer.
   We release some our first sour beers!

 There  are many ways to brew sour beers.
 The way we make them is to ferment with wild yeasts we harvested from
 our garden. flowers, honey air...etc.
 They produce not only acidity but complex aroma and our own unique taste.
 We let them ferment in stainless kegs for 6 months to over 1 year, then
 bottle-condition them for 3~6 months.

  We release 4 sour beer fermented our wild yeast.
　　
　♪ BLONDE Sour … Base beer is our flagship products "BLOND".  Secondery fermented with our wild yeast caught from air ( under the fruits tree in our garden. and we caught from some place and mixed them. ). 5%　

　♪ La Joya … 6% Sour Red Ale.  law carbonated. Fermented with our wild yeast picked from grapes grown naturally in our garden. La Joya means suggest " Juel ".
　　　　
　♪ Le Petit Bonheur … Sourness and malty beer. this is also fermented with grape yeast. little happiness is the name. law carbonated. 7%.

　♪ Osmanthus - 2015 - … We picked Osmanthus flowers from our garden and used them at boil. and fermented wild yeast more than a year. A lot of flavor, character and mouthfeel. 7%.

　Frankly, I wasn't good at sour beers when I start drink beers.
 But after travels Belgium, now I love it most !

  Please try.
 and We made cardboard box for ship.
 Simple wrap for gift available too!

　  Have a nice holidays!!