In Japan, Kirin Offers a Pair of Retro Recipes

November 18th, 2008 by Evan Rail | 5 Comments

In Japan, Kirin Offers a Pair of Retro Recipes

Next month, Japan’s Kirin brewery will offer a pair of retro brews to celebrate its 120th anniversary, serving up vintage-style cans packed with vintage recipes of the company’s original Lager and Pilsener beers.
The big difference between the old styles and today’s modern Kirin? According to an English-language post at Japan Marketing News, the modern version [...]


Kout in Domažlice

February 15th, 2008 by Evan Rail | 1 Comment

Kout in Domažlice

Of the many new brewpubs and breweries in the Czech lands, one of the most distinguished has to be Pivovar Kout na Šumavě, which returned to life by lurching off the operating table much like Frankenstein just as I was finishing Good Beer Guide Prague and the Czech Republic. Fortunately, I got the information in [...]