Summer has officially started here in Japan so you’ll see a lot of beer gardens and stand-up beer stalls springing up around Osaka. I love the beer stalls, which can be found in station areas like the Hankyu Department Store area.
It has almost nothing to do with Osaka but what the heck, vote for your favourite beer (or happoshu) in the comments. 
I’ll start things off.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Ian Cheung // Jun 5, 2007 at 12:57 pm
My favourite beer is Suntory Premium Malts and when I can’t afford that I like Asahi Kubinama happoshu
2 Janne // Jun 6, 2007 at 10:40 am
Clear favourite is Ebisu Black. It’s clearly in the same league as European black beers. Asahi black draught beer is not bad at all either (our nearby Kushikatsuya has it). For pale beers, Sapporo is very good, but often a bit hard to find.
I’ve long been doing a post comparing dark beers I can find here; at some point I may even get off my butt and finish it
3 Papigiulio // Jun 6, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Asahi hands down!! But I also like Saporro. Don’t like DRAFT one tho, that beer is blegh!!!
I’m sad to say I didn’t try many beers in Japan. In fact that will be one of my missions when I return :S
4 Peet // Jun 6, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Well I like Lager beer the best, and although there are some very nice Japanese Largers out there, you can’t go past the standard Kirin Lager. Although I really dont like the other Kirin beers so much.
My favourite brewery would have to be Sapporo.
Does anyone know of a good Japanese wheat beer (like Hoegaarden)?
5 Dave L. // Jun 18, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I really do like regular Suntory Malt’s. Smooth…goes down well with anything. Dig it.
6 MF // Oct 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Beers you can find anywhere :
1. Yebisu Black
2. Suntory Black
3. Yebisu
Beers you can find in some supermarkets :
1. Ginga Kogen (a pretty good wheat beer)
2. Yona Yona
3. Tokyo Black
Really good Japanese Craft beers you will have to hunt down (I will just list the names of the brewers)
1. Baird
2. Minoh Beer
3. Hitachino Nest
4. Fujizakura
5. Nagahama
6. Iwate Kura
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