Whilst this was not my favourite Japanese beer to start with, this is pretty much the most popular beer in Japan so I decided to look at it again and changed my mind. I reckon Sapporo is a decent beer, this is now my favourite Japanese beer. Not that I purchase much beer, but if I do I am generally in the international section of the bottleshop either looking at European beer or the Japanese options. This is worth looking into on a hot summer afternoon when I have friends around, a pretty popular choice.

Brewed by Seibei Nakagawa, he was originally trained in Germany after leaving Japan at age 17 becoming Japan’s first brewmaster. The brewery is in the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido, the largest city on Hokkaido. The city of Sapporo is in the south west of Hokkaido, the most northern of the main islands. The city of Sapporo was somewhat famous for hosting the 1972 winter Olympics, the first nation in Asia to host an Olympic games, it would be fair to say Sapporo beer would have been the beer of the Olympic games.