Japan

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Welcome to the first drop of "Six Pack," our new escapism series spotlighting six beer- and travel-related stories (and sometimes other things) from around this lovely planet of ours. This

In Draft No. 4, his collection of essays concerning the craft of writing, nonfiction mastermind John McPhee writes the following regarding the process of selection every writer faces in a

"An ash I know there stands, Yggdrasil is its name, a tall tree, showered with shining loam. From there come the dews that drop in the valleys." - Völuspá, from

There's no particular reason why 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" sounds so right over beers at Tap x Tap. It's just one of those countless Tokyo things that doesn't make

One road lead to the east, this largely deserted boulevard streaking from Sakai's lucrative trading port on Osaka Bay, and another to the west, a skip from Sakaihigashi Station, and

Held on October 19 in Singapore, the inaugural Asia Beer Championship invited commercial breweries from 48 countries across Asia to participate. A panel of regional judges determined the gold, silver,

On his first day at a new job he wore a jacket bearing the insignia of his former employer, Oracle. The new gig at a rival tech company was so

It's fair to say that a disproportionate amount of Japan's craft beer is shit. There, I said it. Every trusted beer enthusiast with whom I’ve discussed Japan’s craft has said

There’s a riveting story behind how in six short months the original Mikkeller Tokyo bar came to be ØL Tokyo, forcing the Mikkeller brand in Tokyo to become, much like

Things were different at Liquor Shop Hiranoya before Akira Hirano took over. “We used to be a normal, ordinary liquor shop. We would mainly sell sake and shochu, snacks, chips—nothing