This year The Carpenter came through with some good mikans, and the boys at Baird succeeded in turning them into some good beer. This one doesn't have as heavy of a mikan taste as I remember in the past, but it is still really good.
If you can imagine a warm spring day (I know it's hard after the winter we have been though) , this is the perfect beer to sit and sip on the front porch as you watch the world pass you by. And of course, you won't mind a bit.
This is also the beer that you reach for when wedding planning with dual MacBooks. Whatever works for you.
If you find yourself in Numazu (as I will this weekend) it's not uncommon to look up and see The Carpenter: the man responsible for the mikans, the rustic wooden decor of all three taprooms, and the coolest guy in the room. No, "The Carpenter's Mikan Ale" isn't just a clever name. The Carpenter is real. And if you are lucky enough (and are a certified Grade A badass- like yours truly) you can get a picture of him as he sips his beer and gazes over the harbor into the Numazu night.
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Where could a girl like me buy this beer?
You could try and see what they have there. If you don't like the English shop, then click on the link for Japanese and go to the Japanese shop. We would be happy -- very happy -- to send beers out to you.
www.bairdbeer.com and go to the Eshop!
Crap, my link didn't come through for some reason. Here it is again:
http://bairdbeer.com/en/shop/
The Baird beer e-shop
Takes a Welsh country boy to show a Kentuckian how it's done.
(>_^)
Better still than ordering the beer online, why not make it down to Numazu Taproom and sample the stuff from the source?
Or check out the Nakameguro or Harajuku Taprooms, if you are in or near Tokyo.
Hope you like the beer, Jen.
DH, all the best with the wedding plans, dude.
Was great to meet up this last weekend. You are one special dude, and I don't mean that in the sense that you like cheese.
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