“It has been a steady growth,” says Two Fingers Australian Co-Founder Stefan Lovell of craft beer in Japan. Places like Two Fingers, a maybe fifteen-seat, nine-tap craft beer pub in the Ikebukuro neighborhood of Tokyo. “One of the strong things about Japan bar culture and craft beer culture is there are these little places and that’s where it shines, where the owners personality really comes out.”

“Craft beer is still very young here,” says Hamilton Shields, Mikkeller Tokyo’s manager and partner, who has been compiling his own Google Map of the best spots to drink craft beer in the city. Without a steady stream of homebrewers looking to open their own place or a demand for ingredients and equipment, craft beer in Japan has sort of slowly plodded along. In fact, while you can purchase the equipment, it’s technically still illegal to homebrew anything over 1% ABV. Well, this industry in Japan hasn’t reached the same heights as in America. But the best breweries in Tokyo? Or for that matter craft beer at all? When Hop Culture Founder Kenny Gould spent two weeks in Japan in 2019, he came back regaling the country’s whiskey producers.

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