Japan Beer Times: Japan’s First Bilingual Craft Beer Magazine
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From JapanTimes:
Ry Beville’s love of craft beer has developed into an occupation in which he publishes Japan’s only bilingual craft beer magazine.
With the quarterly Japan Beer Times launched in 2010, Beville, 37, from Richmond, Virginia, says he wants to help spread the microbrewing culture in Japan, where craft beer is still not widely recognized by consumers, especially in the Kanto region.
"I want more and more people to get to know about craft beer, and develop the craft beer culture in Japan," said the Yokohama resident.
A major problem in the craft beer industry in Japan, he points out, is that in order to get a beer brewing license, you have to brew at least 60 kiloliters of beer annually. "The bar is set so high that it’s difficult to develop the brewing industry. If the tax department changes the home brewing laws and also allowed small-scale brewing, it will create a lot of jobs and a lot of tax revenue," he says.
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