Visiting Iwanai - the Birthplace of Japanese Beer
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I spent several nights at the Iwanai Kogen Hotel, which is walking distance from both a ski resort, and the Iwanai Kogen Brewery. You can find it on Tripadviser, Booking.com, Agoda, etc. etc. Here's a google link: goo.gl/maps/SR...
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Thanks for sharing, lots of informative infomation on a cute little town!
Glad you found it informative!
What an intriguing little town! And a variety of wild hops!? That’s fascinating! Thank you for another great little adventure!
Thanks for watching! I've seen wild hops out in the mountains of Iwate as well!
Love your story telling, Quinlan! Thanks for yet another informative video.
Thank you sooo much!! I really appreciate that!!
Not a beer fan myself, but would definitely visit for the local sights and history.
I'm all for the sleepy towns! lol
Thanks for taking us along!
Thanks for coming!
Danke!
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that!
Cool little town, I really like the design of the brewery building, it fits so nicely into that snowy landscape (as an aside your red coat looked great against that backdrop too!) The shop was so cute too. It's so fun to see these little places, off the beaten track so to speak and yet so full of history. Thanks as always for taking us along and sharing these places with us.
I'm so glad that you found it interesting! Thanks!!
Thanks for the interesting video.
Thanks for watching!
Visited the Sapporo brewery when I was up there for the Winter Festival some years back. Pretty interesting.
Yeah- the brewery is a pretty nice building!
I love your new city trip related videos! Keep up the good work. 😊
Thanks! I intend to film around Morioka soon!
Hokkaido and Tohoku (well back to Dewa and Mutsu) have so much history, but you need to scratch below the surface to find... but Iwanai Musts Bay and thevwest coast off Hirosaki are ancient ports... my time exploring there road signs were in Russian, Chinese and Japanese around southern Hokkaido.
Very interesting video thanks Quinlan. I do enjoy your informative videos and learning about Japan history.
Thanks for watching!
This beer history is SO interesting and quirky for the country and area. Thanks so much!
Glad you liked it!
Oh man, I've really gotta start planning my trips outside Morioka :) so much to explore!
Lots of stuff in the areas around Morioka, definitely!
Someday i will travel to Hokkaido and visit that place! I've only been to Tokyo but there are so many so many places to visit!
The list really is endless, yeah?
How cool! I love learning bits of history like this. Thank you for sharing Quinlan!
Thanks for watching!
Butterbur is good for headaches ! :).
White Willow Bark is best, but Butterbur works as well, but not on everyone sad to say.
Great story asbout the wild hops, Quinlan! That really got my attention!
Fantastic video Quinlan, loved the story of the history of beer in Japan. Thank you for showing these interesting areas and looking forward to seeing where you’re going next
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a great spot.
Q dawg boozing it up 🎉
I'm cutting down, honest!
You're a real good story teller. I love listening to you and the area you live in def lands on my Japan travel map
Very interesting! I've been really enjoying videos about the smaller towns in Japan, so thank you for that! I've only been to Japan once, and only Tokyo, so I'm hoping my next trip will include some smaller towns and definitely a few breweries!
Breweries are popping up all over the place in Japan now, it's great!
Love your videos man!
Always puts me in such a nice and relaxed mood. Perfect for chilling to after having a tough day at work.
Cheers!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate that!
Nothing is above Pabst Blue ribbon.
Surely you jest. That's basically 発泡酒.
What an interesting and lovely place! That handmade bag store looks fantastic!
So glad you liked it! Thanks!
Uhh yeah beer 😁
Iwanai is such a perfect location for a day trip from Niseko. Thanks for the information.
Yes! Exactly! I want to go back and hike there next time!
Nice fun little adventure!
Thanks for making such good and fun informative videos!
Thanks for watching!
:O I often wondered how the beer came to Japan but never read it up, so that's a mistery solved lol. I'm really suprised that hops would just grow wildly in japan i wonder if some visitors had previously just lost some seeds or what XD anyway,...here is yet another place I wanna visit..damn it lol.
also: i'm going through your vids way too fast at this rate I'll be out of content before i finish ironing lol in a way it's a good sign that you have less time for videos overall as it means you're buzy and income is well and steady ;) good good. But it is somewhat bitter sweet 🥲 (but don't you dare stressing out about it :o you take all the time you need and all that)
I'm over in the States for a month, and it's killing me that I can't hike any mountains in Japan this season or make any videos. Ah well.
Japan's craft beer quality is on par with anywhere now, in my humble opinion - being from Wisconsin and having lived in the Pacific Northwest for years. Getting your hands on local beer is the issue though as distribution appears to be a problem, so often one has to go to an area to be able to drink the bounty. Ibaraki alone has dozens of craft breweries now, but very few are available even in Tokyo. Not a bad thing perhaps.
Well hello fellow Wisconsinite!
Agreed regarding Japan's craft beer. There's a lot of great stuff!
Thank you 😊
So, would it be a small, but refreshing, town in the inaka?
Yeah, definitely! Some great outdoor activities around there!
I loved this video. Thanks for sharing.
So glad that you enjoyed it!
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Looks promising. When we were in your neck of the woods in Iwate in December I enjoyed a couple bottles of your recommended Baeren Brewery which were quite tasty. For me the real value proposition is sake. So following Japanese tradition I suggest a first round of 生ビール followed by the appropriate amount of 日本酒. 🍻
If you get a chance, Akabu is some of the best sake from around here!
@@GoNorthJapan Haha. You suggested that to us. The only time we saw it was in Morioka Station. We didn't have enough time to purchase and send back to Tokyo as we needed to catch a train and had more traveling to do. I didn't want to lug it around. We had some nice local flights in our stay at Hanamaki Onsen and Hiraizumi. The one bottle I grabbed before we got a bus to the onsen was Hamachidori Tokubetsu Junmai which was a real mild, pleasant sake. Akabu is actually available not too far from me in San Francisco but it's expensive. It will be mine eventually as both my wife and I love visiting Japan's Far North.
Quite an intriguing story about a town with little known history.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a former beer drinker (boo to gluten allergies!), love these videos. Are there any comparable breweries in Japan similar to Wisconsin's beloved New Glarus?
Definitely! But I'm not sure which one it would be.. hm...
And sorry to hear about the gluten allergy..!
Sake is gluten free last time I checked. 🍶
Oh man, I've been all over Japan just to visit breweries and now you're giving me another one to visit? I'm sorry I missed the local Morioka beer when I was there. I heard good things about Baeren after I got back to the US.
Baeren is a German-style, which is fine. I'm more excited about Black Tide in Kessennuma, and even Tono Brewing is pretty great, actually!
@@GoNorthJapan Oh yeah. I had a nice 4 hour talk with James when I visited Black Tide. They make good stuff! And the seafood in Kesennuma was spectacular!
So you been in my town wow and I also got told that Iwanai was the first palce where Asparagus was cultivated. come for a climb next time
Definitely want to go back and hike!!
There is also a ainu road that had disappeared because of lack of maintenance. Currently trying to find people who want to revive those forgotten passes. Come on in to our climbing gym and have a chat ✌️ your always welcome