Kiuchi Brewing (makers of Hitachino) have a limited created called – “3 Days.” The beer is actually a result of the deadly earthquake that struck Japan on March 11th. When the earthquake hit, the brewery was mashing in. The power Continue Reading →
Right at the time Hitachino was mashing on March 11th, they there struck by a deadly earthquake. The power outage caused the mashing process to be shutdown. Over the course of the 3 days of the power Continue Reading →
Beer is the last thing Japan needs to be worrying about right now. However beer, like car manufacturing bears economic importance. Total shipments of beer in March 2011 fell 10.9%. Breweries like Asahi, Kirin, & Kiuchi (Hitachino) have had Continue Reading →
Kiuchi Brewing – best known for Hitachino line of beers suffered some damage in the recent Japan quake. Posted to their website since the quake –
A big earthquake happend around our brewery. It will take a long time todo our ordinary job including export to foreign countries.
We will do our best to reconstruct our brewery, so please wait for a while.
In leiu of brewing, Kiuchi Brewing is has suspended production of beer and is bottling water to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.
Posted to a BeerAdvocate forum today was a response from B. United, importers of Hitachino:
Friday, 6pm Porter Beer Bar taps a wooden cask of Hitachino Classic in a wooden cask. This IPA is brewed by Kiuchi Brewing in Ibaraki-ken Naka-gun, Japan
History:
In 1853 Koutami Kawamoto, who was a scientist, brewed the first Japanese beer. In 1862 the Continue Reading →
Here’s a new one from Hitachino, a part of Kiuchi Shuzou, LTD from Ibaraki-ken Naka-gun, Japan. The Kiuchi Brewery was established in 1823 by Kiuchi Gihei, the headman of Konosu village. His family was collecting rice from farmers as land Continue Reading →
