Don’t stop at rice lagers like Sapporo. Pour one of our favorite Japanese brews into your pint glass and thank us later.

If you've ever tasted Japanese beer, you know it brings a certain pleasure to the palate. Whether you like it, love it, or are not quite sure, it's definitely memorable. Mainstream brewers such as ...

You might call Red Gillen the Oregon ambassador for Japan’s craft beer movement. After spending years living in Japan, he moved back to the U.S. and in 2008 started a website, oshuushu.com, as a way ...

I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Japan twice in the recent past, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite places in the ...

It started with a blog. Before there was Umami Mart, the carefully curated Japanese housewares store in downtown Oakland, there was Umami Mart the blog-- a space for two old friends to talk about food ...

Japanese-influenced American brewpubs are not common. In fact, there may be just one in the United States. It’s in downtown Buffalo. Sato Brewpub opened this fall at the corner of Pearl and Swan ...

A Japanese brewery that canceled the release of its newest beer because of a spelling mistake on the cans has decided to sell it anyway after drinkers offered to take the beers for free. Sapporo ...