Last Saturday after visiting the
Tokugawa museum M and I moved on to the
Asahi Nagoya Brewery. The brewery is located near the JR
Chuo line near the Shin
Moriyama station which is a much more industrial area than I am accustomed to seeing in Nagoya. As soon as we exited the station I was happy to see a billboard with a walking route directing us to the brewery.
M and I were the only people in our tour which was conducted in English! The brewery itself didn't look too much different from the breweries that I have toured at home. The most interesting part was the area where they explained how all of the brewing bi-products are reused, for example the grains the remain after brewing are fed to livestock and plastic bottles are recycled to make the uniforms worn by the tour guides.
Not surprisingly the highlight of the tour was the free samples, we tasted the
Asahi Super Dry and the
Asahi Black. The taps in the tasting room included two spouts one for getting the beer into the glass and the other for topping it off with foam. There were signs (like the one above) throughout the room explaining how to recreate this pour at home.
M and I were the only people in our tour which was conducted in English! The brewery itself didn't look too much different from the breweries that I have toured at home. The most interesting part was the area where they explained how all of the brewing bi-products are reused, for example the grains the remain after brewing are fed to livestock and plastic bottles are recycled to make the uniforms worn by the tour guides.
Not surprisingly the highlight of the tour was the free samples, we tasted the Asahi Super Dry and the Asahi Black. The taps in the tasting room included two spouts one for getting the beer into the glass and the other for topping it off with foam. There were signs (like the one above) throughout the room explaining how to recreate this pour at home.
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