A WILD PODCAST APPEARS!

Joe's been off the booze this week, but fortunately Rob's been drinking enough to send a medium-sized family of chimps on a dream holiday to Tenerife. A quickfire bombardment of questions ensues! 

We talk about bars in Kamakura and Nagoya, why there are no damn beer flights in bars in Japan, and then take a quick stab at explaining why beer festivals are bad.

What a thrill! In this delightful dialectic you've deigned to download, we play the famous Victorian parlour game "Guess the Beer Label", talk about bad bad beers, and in Clickbait Corner we try and desperately figure out if there is any possible way that macro beer isn't evil.

Well? This podcast isn't going to play itself, you know! (Unless you've got autoplay on. In which case, why are you reading the description and listening to the podcast at the same time? Everyone knows that's for nerds.)

Imagine, if you will. Squatting, Gollum-like, in the middle of a table. Each of your buttocks supported by bottles of Imperial Stout. Japanese families, students and children alike, all around you. What are you doing? Get off our table. We're trying to have a conversation. 

Headphones recommended for this one, to get the full BINAURAL EXPERIENCE.

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In this podcast we chat about the direction we'll be taking the podcast (ooh meta), coolships (which reminds me, go and play Return of the Obra Dinn), Rob buying colossal amounts of Baird Beer, and the latest round of "Which bars have announced their financial ruin via a Facebook post" (aka Reason #9857235 why Facebook is an endless misery hole). We also introduce an annoying new segment that's guaranteed to get your greasy little typing fingers all worked up.

In the latest edition of the hit series "Behind The Beer", we've got Molly Browning from Lallemand, a privately owned Canadian company that researches, develops, produces and markets yeasts.

Lallemand Inc can be found at:

http://brewing.lallemand.com/

The intro music is provided by The Worst Case Scenario with "The Beer Song". Find them at:

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As Joe is in the UK, it's up to Rob to fly solo and write the podcast, do the podcast, make the podcast, and edit the podcast. It's also sweltering hot here, which means we're going on a break - but we have plenty in store for you.

Four years? FOUR years? four YEARS?! FOUR YEARS?! 

Yes. From our humble beginnings of sitting on our sofas writing about beer we bought in the combini, we've come so far... here we are... erm... never mind.

In this podcast we look back on the first year of BeerTengoku. We discuss which beers we have (and haven't) drunk since reviewing, bars that have since closed down, and how casting a critical eye over what we drink affects how we drink it.

Well, am I, Sharon? Craft beer gets expensive when you put truffle oil in it. It also gets expensive when you have it in a bar in Golden Gai. Never fear, Asahi is here with a cheap can of piss they call Craft. 

Rob humblebrags. Joe goes on multiple sweary rambles. Let us know if you want Rob to grow a beard.

The whole of Japan has turned into a muggy swamp. Despite this, people still want to drink outside. We oblige. 

Rob's mind is addled by pain meds. Joe flagellates himself. Someone attempts an Australian accent.

We're b-b-b-b-back! Turns out sitting on a beanbag to record a podcast isn't the best idea.

In this long-awaited returning episode we delve into the legal grey areas of craft beer in Japan. Homebrewing and growlers, to be precise. Joe spends all his money at a festival. Rob sleeps in a field.