Inaka update and Links!

Come on, if you've get served three-foot long cow intestines, what would you do?

Since no one (read: my boss) accepted my decree that Monday would be pushed back to Wednesday, here I sit at school today. It's been a good one so far. I'm a bit hungry, since I don't have any food left from the Inaka Weekend, and not much money. At the yakiniku dinner we got hit for a bill with 7 course meals, and 73 nama-chus. Ouch. That one hurt.

But, it was really fun.

I was super excited to find out yesterday that one of my good friends from Tokyo hooked me up with a bottle of Ise Kadoya's Imperial IPA. Yes, I am lucky, and my friends ROCK.

In Taguchi last weekend we went on a kickin' tour of the Houraisen Factory, and it was a blast. We got a behind the scenes tour, where we wore the sterile whites and all. I highly recommend taking it, if you find yourself in the inaka of Aichi. I guess you can just take my word for it.



Now, on to some news!!

It looks like Kuntory is dead. That's a real bummer, I was looking forward to seeing what they could do. Ok, not really--I just wanted the name to be Kuntory. You can read that article, but it's filled with numbers and big words and doesn't talk that much about cold beer. Kinda like a math book.

Regardless of what you think about the whale debate, these fools on the Sea Shepard are CRAZY.

Another study says that beer is healthy for you, and this time it deals with bone health. This doesn't mean that much to me, I'm still looking for the study that says 10 beers every Friday is good for you. We might be waiting a bit for that one.

The new Heinz Dip and Squeeze is quite possibly the biggest breakthrough in Ketchup in years. (Yes, that means that there haven't been many breakthroughs in the past 50 years. Seriously, if the biggest breakthrough was making a bottle that sits upside down...come on.)

Stay tuned as I am going to post the new "I am a Craft Brewer" video, this time done by homebrewers in Poland. When is the Japan one coming?