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Sparkling Hop Liqueur?

August 21, 2007

Kirin Brewery announced today that they will releasing their third quasi-beer into the populy Japanese alcohol category known as “third-category.” The Japanese media came up with that name, officially they’re classified as “other miscellaneous alcohol” or “liquor.” Naturally they’re subject to lower taxes, are often made with soybeans but without malt. The first and second [...]

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Kirin Discovers Anti-Oxidizing Yeast

August 16, 2007

Kirin Brewery, along with the Keio University Institute of Advanced Biosciences have announced the discovery of new yeast strain found by analyzing the metabolic byproducts that brewer’s yeast synthesizes. What they found was that brewer’s yeast creates large quantities of “hydrogen sulfide when processing a tiny number of metabolites of the amino acid asparagine.” The [...]

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Beer Can Pouring Robots

June 7, 2007

What do you get for the beer lover who has everything? How about the new Asahi Robocco BeerBot, a beer pouring robot. It used to be available only in Japan, but now you can buy one anywhere in the world. For a mere $799 (plus $99 shipping) you can have one of your very own. [...]

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Beer Is Healthy Food

May 14, 2007

I’m not exactly sure who PS Prakasa Rao is. The best I can figure is he’s a scientist or doctor from India who frequently writes for his local newspaper. At any rate, he’s got an editorial piece titled “Beer Is Healthy Food” in today’s Central Chronicle from India. In today’s editorial, he goes against conventional [...]

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Hitachino a Hit

January 4, 2007

A food writer, Kim O’Donnel, with the Washington Post, surprised herself by discovering that beer and food do indeed work quite well together. In the article, she describes having a “palate-changing, food-beer pairing experience” at a Japanese restaurant in New York City when her waiter suggested trying a Hitachino Nest Beer with the meal. In [...]

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Turning Water into Happoshu

December 10, 2006

In Japan it will cost you two to three times as much as it does in the rest of the world if you’re keen to drink a beer. That’s because the Japanese government in their infinite wisdom (why is it governments are all so dogmatically stupid in creating laws without thinking them through?) placed an [...]

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Anheuser-Busch to Import Corona in China

December 5, 2006

Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona, will be partnering with Anheuser-Busch (who owns 50% of non-voting stock in Modelo) in China. As of next month, January 2007, A-B will import Grupo Modelo beers throughout China. Modelo also distributes Anheuser-Busch beers in Mexico and beginning shortly, will also bring Tsingtao to Mexico. Not surprisingly, A-B also [...]

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Tastes Great, Less Gesundheit

September 12, 2006

Add hay fever to the growing list of maladies that can be helped by the moderate drinking of beer. A new preliminary study released today by Tadao Enomoto at the Japanese Red Cross Society’s medical center in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture appears to show marked relief in alleviating sneezing and running noses for hay fever sufferers [...]

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Bomonti Beer Factory

August 26, 2006

There’s not a lot of beer coming from Turkey. Efes is probably the one most known to us westerners. The first brewery in Turkey was started in 1890 by two brothers from Switzerland, the Bomonti brothers. In 1902 they built a new facility in the southern part of Istanbul which still stands there today. It [...]

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Anhesuer-Busch Takes Over Marketing & Sales of Kirin

August 26, 2006

Anheuser-Busch and Japan’s Kirin Brewery annnounced today that their alliance will be enlarged to include marketing and sales of Kirin beers in the United States. Currently, A-B contract brews all Kirin beers for the domestic market at its Los Angeles brewery. That relationship began ten years ago and included distribution, as well, through A-B’s network [...]

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Grupo Modelo to Distribute Tsingtao in Mexico

August 22, 2006

Grupo Modelo, the Mexican brewer who is most famous for making Corona, announced late last week that by the end of the year they will distribute the Chinese beer Tsingtao exclusively throughout Mexico. Curiously, Anheuser-Busch, who owns half of Modelo (though I understand it’s non-voting stock) also has a 27% stake in the Tsingtao Brewery. [...]

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Sapporo to Buy Canadian Sleeman

August 12, 2006

Sleeman Breweries, of course, has had a for sale sign around it since May so this announcement came as no surprise. Only who had an element of surprise to it. Late Friday, the Japanese company Sapporo announced it has offered $17.50 a share in cash, which works out to $400 million (though some reports say [...]

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Foster’s Closing Ranks Again

August 8, 2006

Back in June, Foster’s announced it was pulling out of its last remaining brewery in China. Now they’re also leaving India and Vietnam. Reportedly, Foster’s wants to concentrate on their domestic beer market and on selling wine.   Vietnam The Vietnam operations are being sold to Asia Pacific Breweries. According to their press release, APB [...]

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Fal Allen’s Archipelago Brewery Opens

August 2, 2006

Last year, my friend Fal Allen left for Singapore to open an American-style craft brewery for Asia Pacific Breweries. Archipelago Brewery originally opened in 1931 but by 1941 was sold to Malayan Breweries (which today is Asia Pacific Breweries). Closed since then, it finally reopened July 24 with three craft beers created and brewed by [...]

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OB Blue

June 26, 2006

Oriental Brewery, more commonly known as simply “OB,” is the second largest brewery and sells the third most popular brand in South Korea and is probably the best known outside of Korea. Purchased by InBev in 2003, their OB Lager was renamed just OB. A re-tooled version of OB Beer, the original formulation created in [...]

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Foster’s Retreats from China

June 17, 2006

Foster’s has sold its last remaining Chinese brewery, in Shanghai, to the Japanese Suntory for an estimated $15 million. Like Lion Nathan a few years earlier, also abandoned the Chinese market, which is the second larget beer market in the world. According to the Sydney Morning Herald: ABN Amro analyst David Cooke said Foster’s and [...]

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