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Beaujolais Nouveau 2009

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Nov 22, 2009, 9:33 pm
Beaujolais Villages Nouveau 2009 I wasn’t intending to rush out and buy a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau this year, I was just going to buy it when the opportunity arose, but on the 19th the boss ...
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Chanmoris Winery, Katsunuma Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Nov 20, 2009, 10:21 pm
The next winery on our tour of Katsunuma wineries in Japan was directly across the road from Domaine Chateraise, the Chanmoris Winery owned by the rather long named company Koshu Budou ShuHonPo. Not ...
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Winter Beer in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Nov 14, 2009, 11:47 pm
Shiro Kirin - White Kirin Well it would appear to be Winter soon in Japan. I blogged a while ago about Autumn beers in Japan and how Japan and the Japanese people are very seasonal and like to celebr...
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Beer Vending Machines in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Nov 2, 2009, 11:06 pm
Most people probably know that Japan has lots of vending machines (according to wikipedia there is one for every 23 Japanese people (and there are a lot of Japanese people!). What some people might n...
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Fish Shaped Sake Bottle

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Nov 2, 2009, 9:00 pm
I’m always on the look out for fish shaped wine bottles (don’t know why but it seems to be a popular search on google for this site…) so I was very pleased to discover this gorgeous ...
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Sideways Movie – Japanese Version

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 31, 2009, 2:01 am
サイドウェイズ Sideways This weekend sees the release of the Japanese remake of the 2004 movie “Sideways“. I haven’t been to see it yet, but the other day when I went to...
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Sake from a Bamboo Jug

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 31, 2009, 12:38 am
If, like me, you think the only way to drink Sake is from a bamboo cup then you’d have been just as excited as I was the other Friday at a works drinks outing in a Bamboo themed izakaya when thi...
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Kirin Sales Down – Closing 2 Breweries

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 28, 2009, 12:31 am
The Daily Yomiuri has reported that Kirin Holdings (recently reported to be the largest brewery in Japan in terms of output) intends to close 2 breweries next year due to poor sales. Beer drinking in...
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The Asahi "Pepsi" Challenge

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 24, 2009, 11:24 pm
A couple of months ago I was the lucky recipient (along with 1.5 million other people in Japan) of this in the post… An Asahi Beer “Pepsi” Challenge Kit. Well, actually it’s a...
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A Drop Of The Red Stuff

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 24, 2009, 10:05 pm
Vampire Pinot Noir As an ex-dodgy-goth and a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I still like to dip in and out of the underworld every now and then, and discovered this winery the other day while s...
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Big Wine Bottles From Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 16, 2009, 11:29 pm
Previous Katsunuma post On our recent trip to Katsunuma, one of the main wine regions in Japan, I took along my new toy, a video camera and shot some random footage. This is my first video posting a...
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Twitter Making Wine for Charity

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 16, 2009, 3:53 am
This has been doing the rounds on Twitter (and various blogs) - I got it from Mashable.com so I thought I’d stick the video up here aswell. Basically, Biz Stone at Twitter (you can follow me ...
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Japan Beer Sales Down But Kirin On Top

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 14, 2009, 6:36 am
Kirin Lager Beer Beer sales in Japan have dropped this year apparently due to an unseasonably cool summer…um, was that the really hot, humid summer I just lived through? Unseasonably cool huh? ...
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Domaine Chateraise Winery in Katsunuma Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 11, 2009, 12:39 am
Previous Katsunuma Post Domaine Chateraise in Katsunuma, Japan The great thing about Katsunuma (one of the main winery areas in Japan) ... . (...) Read the rest of Domaine Chateraise Winery in Kats...
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Silver Palms Wine Bottle Wins Design Award

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 8, 2009, 8:18 pm
Silver Palms Cab Sauvignon Wine Bottle For reasons I’d rather not go into, I receive occasional emails from “Shelf ... . Goes to show, a lot of thought goes into the actual bottle of wi...
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Cycles Gladiator Wine Label Pornographic in Alabama

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 5, 2009, 8:37 pm
This passes for pornography in Alabama Was amused to see that the Cycles Gladiator Wine label has been banned in Alabama, USA for being “pornographic”! Mind you this was the country that...
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Autumn Beer in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Oct 2, 2009, 11:35 pm
Looks like Autumns arrived in Japan. How do I know? Well it’s not the sharp change in weather (it’s less humid but still in the high 20s), or the change in leaves (that hasn’t start...
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New Years Day For Sake Brewing in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Sep 30, 2009, 6:35 am
The end of September, beginning of October is when sake breweries in Japan harvest the new rice and brew the new sake and so it’s kind of the New Year for Sake. Because of this in 1978 October ...
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French Wine Exports Fall in 2009

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Sep 1, 2009, 9:36 pm
Unsurprisingly really with the current ongoing global economic crisis, French wine exports have fallen 25% in the first six months of 2009. Everybody’s cutting back it seems and luxuries like ex...
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Katsunuma Wineries in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 30, 2009, 1:46 am
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I had a short holiday in Katsunuma City in Yamanashi prefecture (about an hour or so from Tokyo). It’s known as the Town of Grape...
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Fish Shaped Wine Bottles

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 30, 2009, 1:30 am
I blogged a while ago about a fish shaped wine bottle I bought and to be honest I thought it was just a nice novelty and didn’t think much more of it. It turns out to be my most googled blog ent...
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Beaujolais Nouveau 2009 in Japan

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 30, 2009, 1:13 am
Due to the time differences Japan gets each years fresh batch of Beaujoulais Nouveau before any other country in the world. And so, beaujolais nouveau is a big thing here with people rushing to get ...
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Nonalcoholic Beer From Suntory

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 21, 2009, 8:10 pm
I read in Kyodo News yesterday that Suntory are planning a “nonalcoholic beerlike drink” (i.e. happoshu) to be released at the end of September to compete with Kirin’s Kirin Free an...
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Great Japan Beer Festival 2009 Pt 2

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 18, 2009, 2:21 am
Finally getting round to writing about the Great Japan Beer Festival 2009 at Osaka Kyocera Dome (usually home to the Orix Buffaloes baseball team, but that day was home to a lot of drunken Japanese...
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Kobe Wine Soap

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 6, 2009, 8:16 pm
I was reading a post at whywineblog.com about wine and skin care when I was reminded of an advert my wife found in her Japanese newspaper the other day. One of the big local winery’s Kobe Wine ...
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JAL Saves Fuel and CO2 with Plastic Wine Bottles

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Aug 6, 2009, 12:00 am
I read today in The Daily Yomiuri that JAL (Japanese Airlines) is replacing the glass wine bottles on their flights with lighter plastic ones. Apparently this will reduce the weight of the plane by ab...
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My New Decanter and the Sake Bottle

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Jul 24, 2009, 10:53 pm
I’ve been drinking wine for a few years now, but don’t have a decanter! Instead I’ve been using this great jar I bought a few years ago which is used for keeping sake cold. As you ma...
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Barokes canned wine - The Return

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Jul 14, 2009, 6:44 am
Not long ago I reviewed Barokes Canned Bubbly Red Wine and to be honest I really didn’t like it. But I felt, perhaps I was too harsh, and admittedly didn’t realise it was sparkling - ahem,...
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Sake Tour of Hyogo Part One

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Jul 10, 2009, 10:43 pm
In an hour or so, we’re about to go on a tour of the local area sake breweries. I live in Hyogo which has about 60% of the sake (nihonshu - Japanese rice wine) breweries in Japan. I thought I...
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Beerlike drinks in Japan hit new low price

Jim B. posted an article on MoIppai Blog - Wine, beer, and more - Jul 8, 2009, 11:18 pm
Japan has three main kinds of beers: Normal lagers (Kirin, Asahi, etc) Happoshu (Low Malt beers – less than 67% malt and cheaper than normal lager as tax is lower) Third Category Beer (These are �...
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I enjoy wine, beer, whiskey and Japanese wine (sake), and have a website to prove it :) http://www.moippai.com . I would like to invite anyone to join this site (for free of course) and add their own reviews or comments on wines, beers or other drinks.

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