date:Sep 24, 2012
heir International Craft Beer Conference, attending their first upscale food and beer event, Le Beau Mariage (inspired by the Brewers Associations SAVOR) and visited dozens of small breweries and craft beer pubs and restaurants in the Tokyo, Yokohama, Wakayama, Kyoto and Osaka areas.
I had visited Japan in the early 1990s,when Japan was in the early stages of their homebrewing, craft beer awareness. The laws were evolving at the time to permit the opening of small breweries. There was an effort