Trunk x Shiga Kogen or We can talk about the coffee scene in Japan as well.

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Message willisread beers 7331 º places 126 º 10:31 Wed 7/29/2015 A couple of friends started Trunk coffee around the same time that Y. Market started (a little over year ago) and both companies have been pretty awesome for Nagoya to be honest. Trunk did a limited beer with Y. Market for their 1 years anniversary a few months back and is now doing what looks like 10 limited Shiga Kogen beers brewed with single origin coffees from Trunk. If any of you are in Nagoya this is probably a pretty special event to attend. Shiga has said the beers won’t be made available outside of this event, so it’s worth mentioning I guess. Link is here: http://slowbrewing.blog104.fc2.com/ Obviously being a huge Trunk and Shiga Kogen fan I’d love to be able to go, but it’s not gonna happen unfortunately. Is anybody planning to go? Did you know about this already? I guess I should preface this by saying I’m pretty deep in the Japan specialty coffee scene. I was pretty close to opening a shop a few years back with my wife, but alas life happens. Anyway, Trunk is awesome. Any other coffee related topics might fit under this as well... Do any of you drink coffee? Are you as picky about coffee as you are about beer? I’m pretty serious about my coffee to be honest and won’t drink anything from Kaldi or Starbucks...in Tokyo it’s gotta be Onibus, Switch or Amemeria for regular coffee and Bearpond or Little Nap for espresso. Fuglen and most recently Blue Bottle for import shit roasted here. Lot’s of good coffee recently and some parallels to the craft beer scene in a lot of ways.
Message beercation beers 2 º places 4 º 11:14 Wed 7/29/2015 Lots of Beer Geeks love coffee, would you happen to know if the Barrel Aged Beans Craze has hit Japan yet?
Message KyotoLefty P beers 15092 º places 1059 º 13:25 Wed 7/29/2015 These cannot be rated, right? Just beans added to kegs, it seems... Looks fun, tho, esp. The other beers, as I don’t really care about coffee.
Message TimE P beers 8459 º places 409 º 21:00 Wed 7/29/2015 Originally posted by beercation Lots of Beer Geeks love coffee, would you happen to know if the Barrel Aged Beans Craze has hit Japan yet? Not happened yet and doubt it will happen in the near future, given the lack of barrels in general. I’ve had these coffees, from Modern Times anyways, and glad I tried it once, but found I would just prefer good coffee instead of BA coffee. A bit gimmicky IMO, but I understand why they are doing it. I won’t be purchasing any BA coffee beans in the near future. As Kyoto mentioned, if these are beans added to the keg, they are not rateable on RB, though I am sure the beers will be interesting. I bought some Trunk coffee at the Snow Monkey Live. It was decent, but very pricey. I wish Trunk the best and hopefully more coffee stouts in Japan as that is lacking, and I do like my coffee stouts. Tim

Message KansaiBeerLvrs beers 8477 º places 567 º 22:30 Wed 7/29/2015 Sounds like a fun event and the non-rateable thing means if I went I could just focus on enjoying the beer rather than analyzing it ;) Alas right now I am in full on gearing up for Europe mode and still kicking around different itineraries. You make plans then find out somewhere is closed or make an appointment to meet someone which makes you go back to the drawing board. Should be fun, I heard about a craft beer garden in Paris going down on the weekend I am there thrown by Les Trois 8 which seems fun. London should be fairly nuts. I just need to make sure I don’t overdo it from the get go but when you’re surrounded by tons of good new beers you may never see again it’s tough to restrain yourself!
Message TimE P beers 8459 º places 409 º 22:35 Wed 7/29/2015 I was just at Les Trois 8 in May. Couldn’t stay long, but definetely a good place to go for rare French beers, of which the quality is a bit up and down. Still if I remember they had about 10-12 taps that were mainly/only focused on French beers. A beer garden would seem even better - the bar is nothing too special.
Message left_bank beers 106 º places 107 º 23:25 Wed 7/29/2015 Originally posted by KansaiBeerLvrs Sounds like a fun event and the non-rateable thing means if I went I could just focus on enjoying the beer rather than analyzing it ;) Alas right now I am in full on gearing up for Europe mode and still kicking around different itineraries. You make plans then find out somewhere is closed or make an appointment to meet someone which makes you go back to the drawing board. Should be fun, I heard about a craft beer garden in Paris going down on the weekend I am there thrown by Les Trois 8 which seems fun. London should be fairly nuts. I just need to make sure I don’t overdo it from the get go but when you’re surrounded by tons of good new beers you may never see again it’s tough to restrain yourself! Paris in August?You really need to check what is open and closed for everything that you are doing before finalizing a plan!
Message KansaiBeerLvrs beers 8477 º places 567 º 23:56 Wed 7/29/2015 Yep, most bars/breweries seem to be open and pumping out suds for the summer. I chose Paris due to a cheap flight via Vietnam. A weekend of museums + beer exploration then on to London for the GBBF. Les Trois 8 will be closed as the staff will be running the biergarten at the Marche de Ouen Flea Market with DJs and stuff. But they’ll reopen by the time I come back for my last night in Europe before flying home. I am staying near Supercoin so plan to hit there for French beers and also visit Goutte d’Or and Deck & Donahue. But good idea I should recheck everyones FB page to see if they’re open. Nothing worse than heading out of your way only to find somewhere closed.

Message KansaiBeerLvrs beers 8477 º places 567 º 00:14 Thu 7/30/2015 Checking I discovered Supercoin kick the kegs event before closing from the 9th to the 18th. https://www.facebook.com/events/393867564147250/ So cheers for the reminder left_bank.
Message TimE P beers 8459 º places 409 º 01:54 Thu 7/30/2015 Originally posted by willisread A couple of friends started Trunk coffee around the same time that Y. Market started (a little over year ago) and both companies have been pretty awesome for Nagoya to be honest. Trunk did a limited beer with Y. Market for their 1 years anniversary a few months back and is now doing what looks like 10 limited Shiga Kogen beers brewed with single origin coffees from Trunk. If any of you are in Nagoya this is probably a pretty special event to attend. Shiga has said the beers won’t be made available outside of this event, so it’s worth mentioning I guess. Link is here: http://slowbrewing.blog104.fc2.com/ Obviously being a huge Trunk and Shiga Kogen fan I’d love to be able to go, but it’s not gonna happen unfortunately. Is anybody planning to go? Did you know about this already? I guess I should preface this by saying I’m pretty deep in the Japan specialty coffee scene. I was pretty close to opening a shop a few years back with my wife, but alas life happens. Anyway, Trunk is awesome. Any other coffee related topics might fit under this as well... Do any of you drink coffee? Are you as picky about coffee as you are about beer? I’m pretty serious about my coffee to be honest and won’t drink anything from Kaldi or Starbucks...in Tokyo it’s gotta be Onibus, Switch or Amemeria for regular coffee and Bearpond or Little Nap for espresso. Fuglen and most recently Blue Bottle for import shit roasted here. Lot’s of good coffee recently and some parallels to the craft beer scene in a lot of ways. Just to get back on topic with coffee. My thoughts are Onibus, Switch or Amemeria - I don’t know any of these, but will check them out Bearpond - too much attitude, like their shit don’t stink. My wife and I tried a few different drinks, but thought they were just Ok, including the espresso. I don’t think I would go back. Little Nap - Hands down one of my favorite and what I generally recommend to people. Its a bit slow and small, but if you can relax and just enjoy things, its worth the wait. Fuglen - I’ve been meaning to go to. They seem to do well with beer too. I would recommend Balloon D’ Essai - not far from Bearpond. Despite the fact they focus on cute lattes. The lattes themselves are killer and having these lattes after just having a latte at Bearpond, it was clear which is the real winner in Shimokitazawa. https://coffeedrinkersmakebetterlovers.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/tokyo-coffee-trail-15-ballon-dessai-latte-art/ Toriba in ginza - coffee is not bad, but a bit over rated, however the 100 yen samplers at the shop are basically a small coffee of freshly roasted, high quality beans=winning. Sarutahiko in Ebisu - Top notch for pretty much everything. I don’t like drink at the shop though as it is way too small. Still it is where I probably buy my beans the most often. For Chain coffee place, I would go with Streamers though they only have 3 or 4 locations. Their ice cafe latte is killer. Tim
Message willisread beers 7331 º places 126 º 06:43 Thu 7/30/2015 Originally posted by KyotoLefty These cannot be rated, right? Just beans added to kegs, it seems... Looks fun, tho, esp. The other beers, as I don’t really care about coffee. Ah you know I didn’t even realize that. They definitely just added beans to the beers I’m sure. Pardon my ignorance, but would this be any different than for example the shoubu miyama blonde? Aren’t they just technically adding shoubu to the miyama blonde tanks? Maybe not, I’m not sure really.