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Full Sail Imperial Stout (Brewmaster Reserve 2008)

No long-winded, rambling, way off the beaten track, "WTF are you yammering about ECB?" beer review this time.

Sorry. This beer did nothing for me.

Bakusyu Club Popeye (Tokyo, Japan)

I had a full week to do basically a two day job at the Yokosuka Naval Base. Rather than fly home early, I decided to make the most of the opportunity, and took some time off to check out Tokyo. Of course, like any other world-class city, you can't say you've "done" a city in a mere two days. But I saw a lot, and had a freakin' blast!

T.Y. Harbor Brewing Co. (Tokyo, Japan)

Cum on feel Tennoz!

(Sorry. I've always hated Quiet Riot too. But the dumb pun was too hard to pass up!)

Kirin-City (Tokyo, Japan)

Saturday, I spent the day wandering around the Tokyo neighborhoods of Shinjuku and Shibuya. I made the mistake of getting hungry at the exact same time as seemingly half of Tokyo went to Lunch, and every single place worth a crap was packed with queues. Finally, I bumped into this place, and sat down at the bar.

Baird Imperial Belgian Red Ale

Besides Stouts, I've noticed that Japanese craft beer geeks like three other things: big-ass hop monsters, large amounts of booze, and Belgian beers of all colors, shapes, and forms. But this is one of the very few handful of domestically produced beers that I've run across that fit the latter two out of three.

Shimaguni Stout

I have to admit, this beer surprised me.

But not in a good way.

How so?

Daidai Dark Wheat Ale

Interesting.

I didn't immediately pick up on this being a fruit beer -- not until I looked it up amongst the various Baird Beer Blogs. Until I ran across a Baird Beer blog entry discussing this beer, I simply assumed that this was just a darker-than-average Wheat Beer, with a funky/fruity/estery yeast strain.

Teikoku IPA

Packing in a ton of hops into a beer isn't hard. Getting them all on the page, to somehow make something of a melodious harmony? Not so simple.

Here, I think Bryan Baird worked around this problem by applying Occam's Razor: the simplest solution to a problem is often the most correct. In this case, want a big hoppy citrus-heavy beer? Use a ton of citrusy hops!

Wheat King Ale

It was rather warm and humid today (Sunday), while I walked around and checked out the various swap meet/flea market bizarres setup to coincide with the Golden Week holiday weekend. Picked up a nice Suntory Märzen Beer glass for ¥100, for example -- and I'm test driving it with this American Wheat Beer.

Pacific Porter

Oddly enough, the Kurofune Porter is not described as a Baltic Porter -- and yet certainly drinks like one. Conversely, this one is said to be -- in no uncertain terms -- a Baltic Porter, and yet drinks much smoother and "friendlier". Be that the "smoothness and balance", or what-have-you, but I enjoyed this one much more than the mainstream Baird Porter.