Munchies, go back and interview that Brimmer Beer Box guy. I want to know the story behind an American dude owning a Japanese shipping container brewery.

i love this reporter, glad she made it over to another vice channel. i was told she was leaving vice, good thing she didn't.

In this episode of _Al-Kee-Hol_, host Yuka Uchida explores the booming business of craft beer in Tokyo. Check out more episodes of _Al-Kee-Hol_ here: bit.ly/Al-Kee-Hol

I'm loving Yuka. Ballsy, fun and asks the right questions.

it smells like weed because weed and hops are closely related, they come from the same family canabaceae.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand I got a nother reason to travel to japan.

great episode, Yuka always bring her drinking A-game!

Hops and Marijuana are actually cousins/ relatively similar plants! It's funny how despite not having a psychoactive effect like bud, it still ended up being an integral part of the brewing process. Even Mother Nature knows you need to let loose every once in a while ;)

Japan's craft beer scene is continuing to get more awesome and this short documentary does it justice (even though it is from a few years back) - great journalist/host on this tour too!

"Smells like weed" 1:48....Ogi know's whats up

So awesome! I saw Green Flash, Avery, Lagunitas and Arrogant Bastard stickers. I wanna visit Japan so bad now. Cheers!

And another great and fun video and informative, thank you.

Love vice munchies, keep it coming.

Great video, more beer stuff!

I am enjoying this series

Nice report! Definitely gonna get me some of that beer! Yuka is so laid back and cool.

Really really enjoyed this

random white guy working at a pub in japan lol

This is why I'd love home, Love the episode Vice

Now i wanna try their craft beers!!! They look delicious :)

Wow I'm surprised that the watering hole bar had new glarus spotted cow. Strange how a beer only sold in Wisconsin makes its way to the other side of the world.

I love your videos!!! And you guys are awesome! I wish i could hang with ya'll. Passion for food and drink right here! Looool

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣loved the way it ended. Am going to okinawa in July hopefully. 😊🙏🙏🙏

Very fun to watch :D

love this video you have to make more like these but in different countries

This video put a smile on my face

I got thirsty as hell watching this shit!

Falling Rock, Dale's, Allagash, AHA, Sweetwater, Lagunitas, a bottle of Cantillon bio lambic, de raanke xx, Coronado, Portsmouth, Lucky Labrador, Laurelwood, West Flanders, NICE!

I miss this series... KZfaq always suggesting me once a year to watch this video😂

spotted cow baby!!! WI in the house!!!

9:47 I'm Drunk lol

More vids about beer... and spirits as well!

Their description of Real Ale isn't entirely true. Real ale is conditioned in the cask (keg/barrel), so all the carbonation is naturally occurring because of the continued fermentation in the final barrel. There is fizz, but it's not the same as modern standards. It isn't flat. It's soft and somewhat similar to the carbonation you get with a pint of Guinness. (I've been drunkenly present when a two year old cask of barleywine was tapped, and believe me it was as explosive as a bottle of champagne and quite fizzy.) Modern beer drinkers are accustomed to beer made with forced carbonation from pressurized CO2 dissolving in solution, like how they make soda and pop, which started happening after American Prohibition, due to unavailability and a change in taste to the cloyingly sweet side. Britons retained their taste for real ale well into the 1970's, but American pop culture gained a strong foothold in the 1980's with MTV, and British teens wanted to drink the popular beers of their idols, so commercial pale lager eventually almost killed the Real Ale culture of Britain, partially because Prohibition fucked up American beer culture so badly and American pop culture became so prevalent during that time.

love it!

Being from Oregon, it was pretty cool to see a Ninkasi sticker on the wall of the second place! We are the kings of micros!

If only it was affordable to visit Japan

That Brimmer Beer Box sure looks like a great hangout for a quick drink with friends after work.

cool video, im glad that a lot of people are going with local craft beers now but its usually a process- they'll move from established brands to "craft beers" which are still sometimes produced under the huge manufacturers, and then state brewerys, there is a crazy seasonal that comes out of missouri that is brewed with espresso and it is the only beer ive had that actually nails the flavor, a lot of times they'll be brewed with something but still taste like a regular stout but this really fuckin blew my mind.

It's loads of fun drinking in Tokyo, you meet tons of cool people!

Holy crap. I totally need to visit Japan now!

taking note for my trip in april :D

So I'm in Japan right now and I would love to know where these places are.

She starts knocking back those beers like they are shots lol.

The final bar of the night was the coolest!

I need beer now

Just might have to take a trip out there

the guy at 8:30 knows his stuff ! "guzzle guzzle" this video sent me to get a beer

"Im going to go fucking drunk"... I think you already got there

Ive never seen this episode of Portlandia before. Good find.

I would be super drunk at that point too lol =) But it would awesome to drink with Yuka, she seems super fun

I hope since 2014 craft beer has gotten more popular in Japan. Cheers to everyone and enjoy.

Is it just me or do I hear a bit of Australian in Yuka's accent?

How fun!!! :)

sooo muuuuch fooooam.

Finally Yuka gets some nice reports.

There are some really great Japanese whiskies out there, so it's no surprise that they have a thriving craft beer culture as well

Asks a question in english < gets a response in Japanese just to fuck with the editor and translator.

"I don't know how to comment on drinks" Inspirational quote from one of the friggin presenters

My girl went from drinking fermented Korean rice with human shit to legit beer. She's moving up in the world.

I REMEMBER WHEN THAT CHICK DRANK POO WINE.

i love beer!!!

Baird beer - #1 craft beer in Japan. REPRESENT, Chris

damn I miss Japan when I watch this.. such a nice people!

I'm in this! I sit down right as they are leaving the Watering Hole. I'm surprised that they didn't edit my old ass out

Makes sense he didn’t want to insult the hosts by saying he disliked the flavor of one of the beers lol

Good beer comes from all around the world and I think it is cool to see a variety of Japanese beer starting to make an appearance in supermarkets where I live, The Netherlands. I would be very interested to try more beer from Japan though, they seem to have some very nice stuff. This video makes me curious, that's for sure. My personal preference are Belgian beers, I can't quite figure out why other than that the taste often suits me. Anyway, the Japanese word for beer was derived from the Dutch word for beer, bier.

I really want to go to Japan now

His voice is soo deep!

All i wanna know is if you got up with a hangover after the sake video lol

THREE CHEERS FOR BEER! :D

I love the guy that didn't have the right answer to anything.

すばらしい！あなたは素晴らしいチャンネルやビデオを持っている！

these japan beers tastes great! ive only tastes some few, but it does not even compare to normal beers

I think he was getting pretty sauced around 3:30 lol. Yuka was completely schooling him on beers >< lol

I tried that Japanese stuff, I kinda liked it. But Czech and German beer is numero uno in my opinion.

Lucky hosts! If I were at that first half-finished microbrewery, I'd be off-my-ass drunk in no time and tangled up in the bare woodwork. Those mugs of craft beer - or _jibiru_, if you will - looked so delicious... Then the second one had so many draft choices...just heavenly. Major beer geek props to the Uchi Tora guy who wished he could guzzle a gallon of Session IPA. My sentiments exactly! I fully support the _gaijin_ behind the bar at Brimmer Beer Box and the idea of parachuting craft pubs made from shipping containers into locales starved for good beer. (Target the Middle East first; a few cold, delicious lagers ought to take 'jihad' off the minds of the rage-heads out there.) And the Japanese man who looks a little like ECW wrestler Yoshihiro Tajiri explaining good beer has officially edged out Tajiri, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, and George "Sulu" Takei as my favorite Japanese guy of all time. Damn, that show makes me thirsty for - you guessed it - BEER.

Doese anyone knows the address of the second place ?

Great video. Though Ji-Biiru is not really used anymore. Kurafuto Biiru is more widely used. EDIT: Ah glad that was brought up near the end.

gettin' drunk in the middle of the day, great

Hugeeeee crush on Yuka

whats the red ale at the end?

Fuck they get better beer than we here in Germany!!! I want smooth craft beer, too and not those mass produced stuff

Best. Munchies. EVER!! * *hic* *

that ferrari though at 4:17

How did that Watering Hole place have New Glarus Spotted Cow on tap? I can't even get it here in Michigan.

How does that one bar have Spotted Cow on tap? That stuff isn't suppose to leave Wisconsin!!

Yuka is the shit...seems like she'd be way fun to hang out with...

So nobody notices the ebay "wolves and moon" t-shirt she's wearing? LOL

Yuka seems like a cool person to hang out and down a couple o beers with

You can choose for one of the above gifts

i want a craft beer now. a nice ipa or dark brew. ice cold

Hop on board the craft beer train, Japan! It's a fun ride. Europeans don't like to admit it but American beer is where it's at.

Hops are related to the cannabis plant (weed) it's a cousin maybe that's why it smells that way lol

How do I get this job? Literally my dream, bar hopping through japan while day loading. I've done it for free, I'll certainly do it for pay.

BAMBERG BANNER FUCK YEAH.

non filtered beer is the best once tried u will never go back

I would like to see this show with a German master brewer seeing how the Japanese do it and give his/her views. Would it be possible to do stuff like this guys. I can assure you the interest would be high if you did such shows. An old skool English fisherman going to see how they do it in old skool Thailand for example. Would anyone else love to see those cultural dynamics on screen?

Which Session is the bartender speaking of specifically?

Japan is blowing up as far as beers and whisky's they are coming out with some amazing whisky's and beer. Sure the Germans mainstreamed and spread beer to the world but in this present day alot of countries have taken german techniques and advanced them...

man i'd be having to pee like every 30 minutes if i drank that much beer.. that last place seemed to have only dudes in there. that one guy was like "I'd like to have a baby.. (with you. right now)" lol