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The beverage giant recently released this canned brew in direct response to consumer surveys asking the Japanese public to name its most desired qualities in a beer…

Japan
(Asahi • beer • drinks • Japanese beer • review • taste test)

Just looking at these beautiful edamame and beer candles will make you hungry and thirsty!

Kay
Apr 1, 2016

Who doesn’t love beer and edamame? But you can’t eat or drink these … because they’re candles!

Japan
(beer • candles • crafts • cute • edamame • Kameyama • offerings)

Party on the Seibu line! Rent a train car for your alumni buddies—beer included

Evie Nyan
Mar 29, 2016

All aboard the party train!

Japan
(beer • party • seibu • train)

Cherry blossom beer is coming back to Japan this spring!

Casey Baseel
Feb 19, 2016

Microbrew arrives in time for sakura-viewing parties.

Japan
(alcohol • beer • cherry blossoms • drinks • sakura)

Get Asahi Super Dry beer in a spring sakura package for a limited time!

Kay
Feb 6, 2016

It’s still in the middle of winter in Japan, but beer bottles and cans from Asahi are already dressing up for sakura-filled spring!

Japan
(Asahi Super Dry • beer • cherry blossom • sakura • spring)

Fish on new Yebisu “happy” beer cans changes colour when chilled

Oona McGee
Dec 23, 2015

In Japan, even beer cans have cute details.

Japan
(beer • Ebisu • new year • New Year's Day • osechi • seven lucky gods • Yebisu)

Move over pumpkin, it’s time for some frothy apple cinnamon goodness … in a bottle!

Kay
Nov 17, 2015

It was only a short while ago that we were being inundated with all manner of pumpkin flavored foods and drinks in honor of Halloween. But now that October 31—and all the wild partying surrounding it—has come and gone, people in Japan seem eager to rush into Holiday Season mode, with Christmas displays and illuminations already popping up across town.

Alcoholic beverages are no exception to the trend, and today we thought we’d share with you a beer with a distinctly Christmassy flavor that sounds absolutely delightful. It’s the Apple Cinnamon Ale from Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen, and, for a limited time, the drink even comes in a special bottle with a beautiful Christmas label!

Japan
(apple cinnamon • beer • Christmas • cinnamon • Japanese beer • Sankt Gallen • seasonal drinks)

Living in Japan: 10 “normal” things you won’t find here

Amy Chavez
Nov 11, 2015

Living abroad is fun and exciting; hardly a day goes by when something doesn’t surprise, humor, or baffle you. Living in another country also gives you a chance to understand your own native nation and evaluate the good and the bad from an outsider’s perspective.

So today we want to share with you some things that we miss from our own countries—that is to say mainly the US and UK—that we never realized we’d miss! Because, you know, they just seemed so normal, we thought Japan would have them too.

USA
(beer • expats • life in japan • lists)

Introducing eight nuggets of life wisdom to up your random trivia game

Krista Rogers
Sep 29, 2015

You know that one person who could definitely win Jeopardy because he/she just seems to know everything? RocketNews24 is happy (and a bit smug) to announce that today we’re going to be that person and share with you some tokens of life wisdom that were originally offered up on the Japanese internet. Want to find out the luckiest day of the year, an early warning sign for cancer, and a subconscious way to boost productivity at work? Let us enlighten you!

Global, Internet, Japan
(advice • beer • cancer • life hacks)

Catbus from Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro found in Finland!

Oona McGee
Sep 23, 2015

Out of all the things we wish would spring to life from Studio Ghibli’s animated films, the catbus from My Neighbor Totoro would have to be at the top of the list. Who wouldn’t want to ride an enormous, fluffy, bright orange cat over hills and through forests on their daily commute?

As with all great things, if it can’t exist in real life, it can at least exist in the imagination. And there’s one imaginative lad who’s found a way to bring the catbus to life in the cutest way possible. All it takes is two ingredients: a fluffy, compliant cat and some Finnish beer.

Europe, Internet, Japan
(beer • Catbus • cats • cosplay • cute • Finland • Ghibli • memes • My Neighbor Totoro)

Exclusive Amazon beer coming to Lawson convenience stores in limited quantities

Cara Clegg
Sep 22, 2015

You can get practically anything via online retail giant Amazon, and there are even some products that you can only get via the website. Ordinarily one such product is a special beer from popular Japanese craft brewery Yoho Brewing, but beer drinkers will soon be able to pick up a can at their local Lawson convenience store. You’ll have to hurry, though, because the number available is limited, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Japan
(alcohol • Amazon • beer • brewery • convenience stores • Lawson)

Sea Squirt Ale: Beer made from marine invertebrates hits the market in Japan

Oona McGee
Sep 9, 2015

The latest craft beer to hit the market in Japan is so unusual that its release has been limited to 3,000 bottles. Called Hoya Ale, the beer itself sounds innocent enough, but when you find out that Hoya is an edible marine animal commonly known as the sea squirt, you might actually need some liquid courage before guzzling it down.

Japan
(ale • beer • Minami Sanriku • sea pineapple • seafood)

Exquisitely blown Japanese beer glasses create serene landscapes while you drink

KK Miller
Aug 7, 2015

Everyone knows that the best way to drink beer is either from a bottle or poured into a glass, yet more often than not you will find beer packaged in a can at the store. Cans make economic sense since they are cheap, can be crushed down to save space and they float in water if you happen to drop them while you are out having fun. However, all beer drinkers know that drinking from the can tastes horrible compared to drinking from the glass.

There are plenty of beer glasses to choose from, but a beautiful glass strangely makes the beer taste even better, and one Japanese crystal company has some of the greatest glasses for your summer drinking. Fired by the Joetsu Crystal Glass Company, the Tsukiyono Kobo line features fantastic glasses that cast your beer drinking in a much more beautiful light.

Japan
(beer • glass • nature • pretty • Tsukiyono Kobo)

We scarf down all-you-can-eat fried chicken at a Tokyo pub

Mike
Jul 13, 2015

Let it never again be said that America is the only country that has an unhealthy relationship with fried foods.

While you may not find such cynically, blatantly unhealthy fare as fried butter and fried Oreos here in Japan, you will find that many square meals consumed in Japan are going to come with some kind of fried food. A lot of times the default is karaage, a dish that is basically the Japanese analogue to American fried chicken, and an item that Japanophiles the world over desperately, vainly argue is somehow healthier than American fried chicken by virtue of its, uh… Japanese-ness or something?

The truth is, karaage is every bit as unhealthy as fried chicken from anywhere else and the Japanese are just as prone to gorging on it to the point of discomfort. Don’t believe us? Exhibit A: This all-you-can-eat fried chicken restaurant we went to for, uh… “research purposes.”

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • beer • food • fried chicken • karaage • restaurants • Tokyo)

Kirin Beer to begin service delivering kegs directly to your door, kegstands discouraged

Mike
May 29, 2015

Kirin Beer, the Kirin Beverage Company subsidiary unsurprisingly in charge of manufacturing and selling the company’s signature lines of beer, announced yesterday that it will begin offering a service starting from August that will see a beer server and kegs delivered to individual households in the Tokyo area on demand.

Japan
(beer • cool • drinking • drinks • Kirin)

New Sizzler will first remove your beer cap…and then become the cap!

Master Blaster
Mar 21, 2015

Here’s a situation that I’m sure all of our readers can relate to. You’ve just finished a hard day’s work and sit down for a nice cold bottle of beer. You pop off the cap to release its sweet aroma.

However, just then you realize it’s actually 5:00am and you’ve completely lost track of the time and day. This happened because you’re a part of an elite team of scientists investigating a UFO crash deep in Antarctica where the sun never sets.

With only 90 minutes until the alien autopsy there’s no way you can properly enjoy the beer, but you can’t close the metal cap properly anymore without the drink losing precious carbonation. What a waste!

I believe it’s exactly these kinds of mishaps that the makers of the New Sizzler had in mind when they developed a bottle opener that’s also a bottle closer.