
New Years Greetings - KBC in 2024
KBC closed 2023 with a message from co-founder Ben . The intent being to reflect on everything that was. With the rollover to a new calendar, KB...
Read moreThe last time we did a proper “year in review” post was back in 2019. At that time, we were looking to plan better ahead and mature more as an orga...
Read more2023 has been an eventful one for KBC. One of them was the need to deal with a dilemma as to whether we could keep up one of our environmental comm...
Read moreAs we posted back in May, I have decided to leave Kyoto Brewing Co. this year. While it is hard to believe, it was my final day at the company this...
Read moreA few months ago, a post was uploaded onto our blog announcing that our head brewer and co-founder, Chris Hainge, was going to be leaving KBC at th...
Read moreA few months back, we shared a little about Higashiru, our Locality Series release created to help create some awareness, and to support the Ohigas...
Read moreOne of the questions we get asked most often is why we decided to start up a brewery in Kyoto. While we now have plenty of people working at Kyoto...
Read moreThis is our 4th and final blog in the series marking out the craft beer industry's challenges in Japan, what we believe needs to happen for the sma...
Read more2 weeks ago, we shared the second blog in our series outlining Japan’s challenges in getting the general public aware of craft beer, and ensuri...
Read moreIt is with a heavy heart that we share today an announcement from our head brewer, Chris Hainge, sharing that he has decided that he will...
Read moreRecently we wrote the first in a series of blogs about the dilemma we feel craft beer in Japan is facing, and what we are planning to do about it.(...
Read moreWhen we started our brewery, it felt like craft beer was on an upward trajectory worldwide, and it was hard to imagine anything but a bright future...
Read moreWhen we started our brewery, almost no one in Japan knew what a growler was, never mind where to get one. A handful of places had picked up about ...
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