Great article from The New York Times about good beer and good food in New York. I think you Tokyoites can identify a lot with what it has to say, check it out. Also they give a shout out to "Hardcore IPA--from a brewer in Scotland." Geez, Brewdog cant get a name drop?????
While you are in a reading mood, you might want to check this article out, and decide which 5 beers you would like to be with on a deserted island. And no Chuwy, by "beers" we mean beers, not Welsh girls.
My top 5:
1. KY Ale
2. Stone IPA
3. Bell's Oberon
4. Baird's Angry Boy Brown Ale
5. Gotemba Kogen Weizenbock
Now, I didn't say that those are my favorite beers in the world, but the 5 I would like to be marooned with on an island. What say you?
8 comments:
No more Takayama Beer on your TOP 5???
DH: You obvioulsy haven't met many Welsh girls. You are still alive, for one thing.
Top 5 off the top of my head...
Augustiner Helles, served from oak barrels.
Schneider weiss.
Either Titan IPA, Big Eye IPA, Greenflash imperial IPA or a nicely dry hopped Ozenoyukidoke IPA for the hop fix.
A dark full bodied beer to slow down with and enjoy the sunsex-I mean sets... ...Rogue imperial Shakespeare stout or Stone double bastard.
Plus of course, Bud light (the reasoning being I need something with which to punish those desert island girls, if they do something naughty that isn't 'naughty but nice'). A few bud lights and they'll be begging me to take them back into my desert island harem.
Then, knowing my luck, the morning will come and I'll wake up with a dreadful hangover and wondering why I have half a dozen female monkeys, laying all about me - the one in the corner, sleeping on top of a crushed can of Bud Light.
Takayama beer? Is that Hidetakayama? Don't like their weissen. Too sour. The karumina is good, though.
Miyuki...Hida Takayama is on my list of top 5 brewers in Japan---but not to take on the deserted island!
Chuwy--you should write a book! Can we get a deal to travel around Japan--writing about breweries and our adventures?
DH: Yes, why not and h*ll yeah.
A coffee table book (with pixelated sections, so the young ones can read about great beer and experience drunken adventures without seeing men's dingdongs).
But who will publish a 5 foot book that comes wiht 4 legs and coasters?
Or have I got the whole concept of a coffee table book wrong, again?
Hmmm...
1) Any random highly quality German Hellas
2) Tree Hop Head IPA (you'll have to look that up if you don't say "eh" at the end of a sentence)
3)Baird Yuzu or Mikan Ale. Honestly this would be a great break from other beers.
4) Alesmith Speedway Stout
5) Vyganto's only beer - kinda like a very hoppy dopplebock. Don't bother to look up on Internet.
1. Double Bastard - deeelicous and cos I'm one myself
2. Nice hoppy pils - german or victory prima pils. For those hot summer days
3. Rochefort 10 - For when I just want to concentrate on a beer and enjoy the myraid challenges it presents
4. Any Imperial Stout - The bigger the better. Excess is not a bad word for this style. Love the Yeti
5. Shiga Kogen House IPA - cos I can't seem to get my hands on it recently
Jonno at work (doing nothing)
For me,
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale -- the first craft beer I ever enjoyed, and I still enjoy it.
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA -- a freakin' fantastic beer.
Stone Arrogant Bastard -- luckily, no one in my family in the States likes it, so they leave it all for me (although they keep trying to like it, they take a sip or two and then give me the rest of their glass).
Bell's Two-Hearted -- lovely beer, fresh in Michigan, great great great!
Baird Shizuoka Summer Mikan Ale -- this year's version especially is wonderful.
Honorable Mention: Baird Rainy Season Black Ale or Popeye IBA.
Notice there are a lot of hops there -- hops are important on a desert island for warding off heat stroke and fluid loss!
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