Archive record · Brewery
Yokohama Brewery
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Founded
- 1999
- Archive ID
- TB-ZNZKK809
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Summary
One of the oldest operating craft breweries in the exact city where Japanese commercial brewing originally began.
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Tally’s Take
Brewing in the exact city where Japanese commercial beer started. Continuity like that is worth more than most breweries' entire origin story.
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Beers
Yokohama Bay Bitter
Year-RoundEnglish Bitter
Commercial brewing in Japan began in Yokohama in 1869, when the treaty port was the country's opening to the West. An English bitter brewed there is a direct nod to that.
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