Just to bring everyone up to speed quick..I am studying abroad in Japan. (NOT READ OVER or EDITED for mistakes....I just write like i talk)
Sunday:
I was up at 9, and my friends call me. They are gonna climb mount fuji. I dont really want to cause its gonna rain..and its hard as hell. I try to make it to the bus on time but I dont so I hang out in Shinjiku for a little bit and then head back. There is a local american magazine in tokyo, and it said that there was a beer festival that day. I thought maybe it might be sold out but I would give it a try anyway. I take the hour commute there and find the place after some searching. Go up to the front desk and in the little english this girl knows says sold out. I keep on asking saying..its just 1 of me...please. Kept giving me the famous X that the japanese do with their hands and i went outside to think of what to do. I thought...maybe if i weight here long enough she will come get me and feel bad about it all. I know thats dumb but I like to dream a lot.
Well woudlnt u know it...after 15 mins of me waiting outside, looking in through the glass once and a while, she comes rushing out, with two guys, one worker, and the organizer of the event. They all usher me in, let me pay and I am not rocking the beer festival! This is the website http://www.craftbeerfestival.jp/ (you can translate it with google).
You get 8 tickets and a mug for like 25 bucks...not too bad. i wish i brought my camera but i totally forgot. I go around tasting some of the best beer i have had in my life. I tried 2 IPAs, 1 Weizen, 2 Stouts, an excellent wheat, a Japanese Sason, a bock, and one more that i ot from an extra ticket....dont even know what it was called..it was a german beer of some sort.
I met a lot of cool people including an American club for beer in japan. I kept talking to this guy so he invited me to the after party at a bar 20 mins away. I get there and it is amazing! Its like a pub in Japan...PACKED with all the head brewers of the microbrew in Japan. The beer is FREE. 5 things on tap (they have tons more...about 40 including some rogue from the US! but they only let 5 for the party) and then they were passing out bottles randomly of beer from Europe. There was one called moonraker I think....Wow was it amazing.
I talked to some Japanese guys, including one that takes a vacation to the US every year JUST for beer. He travels around and then ends it with the American Beer Festival. For some reason a lot of the Japanese brewers wanted to shake my hand and say hello. It was an amazing time..WHO can so no to free beer?
Good times..good times..
CLIFFS:
1. Mount Fuji trip fell through
2. Got into a sold out Beer Festival
3. had great beer
4. Went to after party and hung out with the microbrew community of Japan
5. Free beer
6. Free beer
7. Free beer...
Sunday:
I was up at 9, and my friends call me. They are gonna climb mount fuji. I dont really want to cause its gonna rain..and its hard as hell. I try to make it to the bus on time but I dont so I hang out in Shinjiku for a little bit and then head back. There is a local american magazine in tokyo, and it said that there was a beer festival that day. I thought maybe it might be sold out but I would give it a try anyway. I take the hour commute there and find the place after some searching. Go up to the front desk and in the little english this girl knows says sold out. I keep on asking saying..its just 1 of me...please. Kept giving me the famous X that the japanese do with their hands and i went outside to think of what to do. I thought...maybe if i weight here long enough she will come get me and feel bad about it all. I know thats dumb but I like to dream a lot.
Well woudlnt u know it...after 15 mins of me waiting outside, looking in through the glass once and a while, she comes rushing out, with two guys, one worker, and the organizer of the event. They all usher me in, let me pay and I am not rocking the beer festival! This is the website http://www.craftbeerfestival.jp/ (you can translate it with google).
You get 8 tickets and a mug for like 25 bucks...not too bad. i wish i brought my camera but i totally forgot. I go around tasting some of the best beer i have had in my life. I tried 2 IPAs, 1 Weizen, 2 Stouts, an excellent wheat, a Japanese Sason, a bock, and one more that i ot from an extra ticket....dont even know what it was called..it was a german beer of some sort.
I met a lot of cool people including an American club for beer in japan. I kept talking to this guy so he invited me to the after party at a bar 20 mins away. I get there and it is amazing! Its like a pub in Japan...PACKED with all the head brewers of the microbrew in Japan. The beer is FREE. 5 things on tap (they have tons more...about 40 including some rogue from the US! but they only let 5 for the party) and then they were passing out bottles randomly of beer from Europe. There was one called moonraker I think....Wow was it amazing.
I talked to some Japanese guys, including one that takes a vacation to the US every year JUST for beer. He travels around and then ends it with the American Beer Festival. For some reason a lot of the Japanese brewers wanted to shake my hand and say hello. It was an amazing time..WHO can so no to free beer?
Good times..good times..
CLIFFS:
1. Mount Fuji trip fell through
2. Got into a sold out Beer Festival
3. had great beer
4. Went to after party and hung out with the microbrew community of Japan
5. Free beer
6. Free beer
7. Free beer...
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