Nomcraft Brewing brews Japanese Cold IPA with Busan’s Wildcat Brewing
Nomcraft Brewing in Aridagawa, Wakayama, has introduced a collaboration with Wildcat Brewing in Busan, South Korea. The beer is a Japanese Cold IPA brewed with rice malt and sake yeast, blending both breweries’ identities.
Hop BroI’ve got Nomcraft’s new collab on my mind today. Nomcraft Brewing in Wakayama brewed a Japanese Cold IPA with Wildcat Brewing from Busan, South Korea.
MugiWhat! Busan and Aridagawa are linking up through beer? And Cold IPA sounds like an IPA that escaped from a freezer!
Hop BroThat’s what makes it fun. Wildcat Brewing is known for hop-led IPAs and for bringing in Korean ingredients, so the fit with Nomcraft is really strong.
MugiWhat even is that? Does hop-led mean the hops are center stage doing choreography?
Hop BroHonestly, that vibe is close enough. Hop-forward means the aroma and flavor take the lead, not just the bitterness.
MugiNo way! And this one uses rice koji and sake yeast too, right? My tongue is about to hold a committee meeting!
Hop BroThat combo is the hook. Sake yeast aromatics plus the nuance from rice koji could make it crisp while still giving it a lot of character.
MugiWow, crisp but floral is such a cheat code! It sounds like something I could crush on a hot day and still keep sniffing between sips.
Hop BroAnd Nomcraft itself is great. It’s a renovated nursery brewery that launched in 2019, building hop-forward American styles with both drinkability and personality.
MugiThat rules. If they care about building community too, I can already picture a whole room raising glasses together!
Hop BroTheir post even closes with Busan × Aridagawa, and that really sells the mix of Japanese and Korean character. There’s still no beer name or release date, and I already want it.
MugiI’m already in full release-wait mode! The second the name drops, I want to chase it down and have that first glass with you.
Nomcraft Brewing has shared a collaboration with Wildcat Brewing in Busan, South Korea. The beer in question is a Japanese Cold IPA brewed with rice malt and sake yeast. In the post, Nomcraft describes Wildcat as a brewery that knows how to push hop-forward IPA and also incorporates Korean ingredients, framing the project around a crisp drinking profile and fresh hop aroma.
Nomcraft Brewing is based in Aridagawa, Wakayama, and began operating in 2019. The brewery works out of a renovated former nursery school and has built its reputation around hop-forward American styles with an emphasis on drinkability. That background makes this collab a natural fit: a clean, dry style built on a Japanese twist through ingredients tied to sake brewing.
The caption ends with “Busan × Aridagawa,” which neatly captures the cross-border idea behind the project. The post does not reveal a beer name or release date, but it clearly positions the brew as a collaborative piece that reflects both breweries’ character.
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Hop BroI’ve got Nomcraft’s new collab on my mind today. Nomcraft Brewing in Wakayama brewed a Japanese Cold IPA with Wildcat Brewing from Busan, South Korea.
MugiWhat! Busan and Aridagawa are linking up through beer? And Cold IPA sounds like an IPA that escaped from a freezer!
Hop BroThat’s what makes it fun. Wildcat Brewing is known for hop-led IPAs and for bringing in Korean ingredients, so the fit with Nomcraft is really strong.
MugiWhat even is that? Does hop-led mean the hops are center stage doing choreography?
Hop BroHonestly, that vibe is close enough. Hop-forward means the aroma and flavor take the lead, not just the bitterness.
MugiNo way! And this one uses rice koji and sake yeast too, right? My tongue is about to hold a committee meeting!
Hop BroThat combo is the hook. Sake yeast aromatics plus the nuance from rice koji could make it crisp while still giving it a lot of character.
MugiWow, crisp but floral is such a cheat code! It sounds like something I could crush on a hot day and still keep sniffing between sips.
Hop BroAnd Nomcraft itself is great. It’s a renovated nursery brewery that launched in 2019, building hop-forward American styles with both drinkability and personality.
MugiThat rules. If they care about building community too, I can already picture a whole room raising glasses together!
Hop BroTheir post even closes with Busan × Aridagawa, and that really sells the mix of Japanese and Korean character. There’s still no beer name or release date, and I already want it.
MugiI’m already in full release-wait mode! The second the name drops, I want to chase it down and have that first glass with you.
