Want a Beer Tap Update on 5/23: 6 Beers Including Ushitora, Be easy, and Karuizawa Q
The beer pub Want a Beer in Motoimaizumi, Utsunomiya City, will be open on May 23 from 12:00 to 23:00. Six beers from Ushitora Brewery, Be easy Brewing, Karuizawa Q, and Romantic Village x Want a Beer will be on tap, making it a lineup you can enjoy from daytime drinking onward.
Hop BroToday, the hot item is the 5/23 tap update at Want a Beer, Utsunomiya’s beer pub. It opens at noon, so you can start drinking early, which is the best part.
MugiWhat! From noon!? Open until 23:00 too? That’s basically a full-day happiness course. I could just camp out there eating snacks and drinking forever!
Hop BroAnd the six taps are a great lineup. First up is Ushitora Brewery’s IPA, "Adult Canned Beer, barrel ver.," which is a West Coast style IPA focused on crispness.
MugiWest Coast... what is that, the taste of the sea? I get what they mean by drinking cleanly and sharply, but the jargon suddenly started surfing!
Hop BroRoughly speaking, it’s an IPA with assertive bitterness and hop aroma that finishes clean. By contrast, Tohoku 6 Hop is Be easy Brewing’s Hazy IPA, with the juiciness of New Zealand hops and a soft mouthfeel as its strengths.
MugiWhoa! A juicy Hazy sounds almost like it has fruit juice in it, so easy to drink. Hops really can show so many different sides!
Hop BroThat’s what makes it interesting. Karuizawa Q’s Michisugara Irish Red layers biscuit-like aroma with caramel and dried-fruit notes, so even at the same place the scenery changes completely.
MugiBiscuit!? A toasty red beer sounds snack-like, but it’s still firmly beer. And the name is so poetic too.
Hop BroAnd Want a Beer’s 5th-anniversary originals are strong too. Fresh!!! is a Fruits Sour Ale made with hand-squeezed juice from five kinds of citrus, while SPECIALS is a Belgian White with amanatsu, kiyomi orange, hassaku, mandarin orange, lemon peel, and coriander.
MugiWhat is that, it’s basically a citrus festival! And if they’ve got corn pizza plus spring rolls with hairy crab and asparagus, then I’m going now and going all out from the first beer to the second!
Tap List for 5/23
The beer pub Want a Beer in Motoimaizumi, Utsunomiya City, will be open on May 23 from 12:00 to 23:00, with last orders at 22:00. Reservations are accepted via the LINE link in the profile, and the shop notes that replies to Instagram DMs may be delayed. Since it opens early in the day, it is an easy place to stop by when you want to take your time with food and drinks.
Spotlight on 6 Taps
- Adult Canned Beer, barrel ver. / Ushitora Brewery: A golden West Coast style IPA. Malt character is restrained, making this an American IPA that drinks cleanly and sharply.
- Tohoku 6 Hop / Be easy Brewing: A Hazy IPA made generously with New Zealand hops. Fruity, juicy, and marked by a soft mouthfeel.
- Michisugara / Karuizawa Q: An Irish Red with toasty biscuit-like aroma layered with caramel and dried-fruit notes.
- Fresh!!! / Romantic Village x Want a Beer: Want a Beer’s 5th-anniversary original Fruits Sour Ale. Five kinds of citrus are hand-squeezed, bringing fruit-derived aroma and acidity to the forefront.
- SPECIALS / Romantic Village x Want a Beer: Another 5th-anniversary original, this Belgian White blends in coriander with the peels of amanatsu, kiyomi orange, hassaku, mandarin orange, and lemon.
- Tomarigi / Karuizawa Q: A Kölsch style loved in Cologne. A light, refreshing finish with gentle malt notes plus herbal and lemon-like aromas.
The food lineup also looks great with beer, including spaghetti with Hokkaido clams, carpaccio of bonito and smoked mackerel, spring rolls with hairy crab and asparagus, corn pizza, and spaghetti with squid and bottarga. The beer styles are broad as well, so the lineup offers plenty of range in a single visit, from citrusy sourness to hop-driven juiciness to light, lager-like drinkability. It is the kind of place where you would want to match the tap list with the food at this relaxed Motoimaizumi beer pub.
Information may be inaccurate. Please refer to the venue’s official channels for the latest details.
Hop BroToday, the hot item is the 5/23 tap update at Want a Beer, Utsunomiya’s beer pub. It opens at noon, so you can start drinking early, which is the best part.
MugiWhat! From noon!? Open until 23:00 too? That’s basically a full-day happiness course. I could just camp out there eating snacks and drinking forever!
Hop BroAnd the six taps are a great lineup. First up is Ushitora Brewery’s IPA, "Adult Canned Beer, barrel ver.," which is a West Coast style IPA focused on crispness.
MugiWest Coast... what is that, the taste of the sea? I get what they mean by drinking cleanly and sharply, but the jargon suddenly started surfing!
Hop BroRoughly speaking, it’s an IPA with assertive bitterness and hop aroma that finishes clean. By contrast, Tohoku 6 Hop is Be easy Brewing’s Hazy IPA, with the juiciness of New Zealand hops and a soft mouthfeel as its strengths.
MugiWhoa! A juicy Hazy sounds almost like it has fruit juice in it, so easy to drink. Hops really can show so many different sides!
Hop BroThat’s what makes it interesting. Karuizawa Q’s Michisugara Irish Red layers biscuit-like aroma with caramel and dried-fruit notes, so even at the same place the scenery changes completely.
MugiBiscuit!? A toasty red beer sounds snack-like, but it’s still firmly beer. And the name is so poetic too.
Hop BroAnd Want a Beer’s 5th-anniversary originals are strong too. Fresh!!! is a Fruits Sour Ale made with hand-squeezed juice from five kinds of citrus, while SPECIALS is a Belgian White with amanatsu, kiyomi orange, hassaku, mandarin orange, lemon peel, and coriander.
MugiWhat is that, it’s basically a citrus festival! And if they’ve got corn pizza plus spring rolls with hairy crab and asparagus, then I’m going now and going all out from the first beer to the second!
