Sakamichi Nights

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew (and sometimes guests) pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we drank some of the Oni Koen Kölsch that we made with together with our friends at Devil Craft, and talked about a few of the language challenges that we've faced since opening our own business. Thank you to everyone who asked...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew (and sometimes guests) pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we picked up the gauntlet that had been thrown down by Casey from the Beanpod and tried some Beery. To wash away the taste we also cracked a can of 1921 Post-Prohibition Pilsner from Russell Brewing - an excellent clean and cri...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. We're back! After a two week break episode 30 of Sakamichi Nights is here. This week we sipped sensibly on a can of Heir Apparent from Lickinghole Creek and talked adjuncts. We also answered some questions from listeners. Thank you to everyone who got in touch...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we went back to the great state of Ohio to share another can of beer from Jackie O's - Razz Wheat - and discussed one of Dan's favourite tv shows. This was also a bumper week for listener questions so we also did our best to answer some of them! Than...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we crushed a can of Citra Slam, and after that we drank it too. It's a single hop West Coast IPA from Revision Brewing of Sparks Nevada . Single hop IPAs are sometimes viewed as being a bit thin or uninteresting but recently we've had a number of rea...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. In May 2007 Brian Oestrike, brother of Jackie O's Brewery owner Art Oestrike, set out to climb Mt. Everest in honor of their mother. The successful expedition led to the delicious beer that we tried this week - Chomolungma, which fittingly means Goddess M...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we enjoyed a can of Sour IPA, a sour IPA from New Belgium . Despite what the name might have you think, New Belgium are located in Colorado. In the episode we get in to the reasons behind the name and how New Belgium try to promote environmental awar...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we were joined by two new members of the Sakamichiverse - John Jarlsberg and Linden Limburger. Together we shared a can of Hoya Boya, a hazy IPA from Black Tide Brewing . It's a light, tropical, and slightly funky beer, so you might be surprised by t...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week's beer was a can of the excellent Terry Porter from Gilgamesh Brewing in Portland, Oregon. This beer was first made in 2016 as a seasonal winter brew and a collaboration between Gilgamesh and the Portland Trail Blazer’s legendary point guard Terry Po...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we crushed a can of Jungle Boogie - a blood orange sour by Funk Estate from New Zealand. We haven't been able to have enough New Zealand beer in our fridges, so when this one popped up on an importers list we jumped at the chance. We also dug in a li...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we cracked a can of Days Over, a delicious unfiltered lager from Black Tide Brewing . Black Tide have established themselves as a real favourite in our taproom, with customers often coming in specifically for any new beers that we stock from them. Da...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week Sakamichi Nights is coming to you 100% vaccinated! We celebrated by cracking a can of Serious Leisure , a guava, lime, and hibiscus sour from Fair State Co-Op in Minneapolis. The wheel of pairings came up on video game again this week and led Matthew...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we dipped in to TDM 1874's IPA #16 . George at TDM changes the hop bill every time he makes this beer. Version 16 has Magnum, Sabro, Idaho 7, Cryo Citra, and Mackinac. That's a lot of interesting hops! We also talked a bit about how breweries (and ho...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we tried two different beers from Y-Market Brewing in Nagoya - Ekuanot Hazy Pale and Y-Market Pilsner . Both are clean, simple, easy drinking, and excellent examples of their type. We have the hazy pale on tap and the pilsner in cans, so also talked...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we again tried some of the delicious Golden Kiwi - a modern IPA that we made together with our good friends at NomCraft . This beer is finally available on tap, now that the state of emergency has been lifted, so we were also joined by two good frien...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we drank a bottle of delicious Freiheit Premium Bock from Numazu Craft in Numazu . We also welcomed a new sponsor - Danke, Nationalmannschaft. Traditional Bock beers are malty, slightly sweet, and typically quite strong, and this Freiheit certainly l...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we drank a can of Zoigl-Weiss, a deliciously light and refreshing German style wheat ale from Zoiglhaus Brewing in Portland, Oregon. A Zoiglhaus is a traditional German style of brewing that dates from the middle ages. Local citizens share a communal...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we shared a can of Pink Drink, a raspberry sour from Crucible Brewing in Washington State, USA. Pink Drink is a kettle soured beer, so we dove into some of the different processes that breweries can use to make sours and discussed some of the other r...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we tried some Tall and Kinki, an excellent hazy IPA made in collaboration by NomCraft , from Wakayama, and Tall Boys Brewing , from Nagoya. Spoiler alert, it's great! We've got a few different bottles of Tall Boys beer available in our TWO FRIDGES, s...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we tried some of the excellent Riders On The Storm IPA , a collaboration between Karl Strauss and Beachwood Brewing - two excellent Californian breweries together at last! We've been lucky to do collaborations with lots of great breweries here in Jap...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. Due to the current State of Emergency we are operating for take out only, so this week we tried a beer from one of our TWO FRIDGES ! Dank and Sticky is a dank and sticky west coast IPA from The Hop Concept , a brewery in San Marcos, California. We also talked...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we got to try some of the beer we made together with our friends at NomCraft - the Golden Kiwi. We were joined in the taproom by our own Golden Kiwi local pervert Daniel H, a friend of Sakamichi and frequent provider of weird cans of beer.  The...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we were joined by Mac from Maction Planet and Kampai Planet to try some of the excellent Philharmony , a Belgian Wit with Tachibana from Nara Brewing . Nara always include really cool postcards with the kegs of beer they send us, so we talked a bit a...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. This week we tried some of the tartly excellent In the Limelight, a fruited Gose from ShioKaze Brewlab in Chiba . As this was the second week in a row that we were drinking this style, we thought we'd go into a bit of detail about its background and unique cha...

Sakamichi Brewing is located in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Each episode Daniel and Matthew pick a beer or two from the menu and talk about it a bit. In this week's very special episode we travelled all the way to Wakayama to try some of the delicious D.N.A. orange gose with tea from NomCraft Brewing . Joining us to discuss the beer were NomCraft brewmasters Ben and Adam. We also found the time to talk abou...