Beer Bar Festa Shimokitazawa taps Matsue Beer Hearn's 'Midoriyui Beer Stout' on April 30
On April 30, Beer Bar Festa (Festa) in Shimokitazawa tapped Matsue Beer Hearn's new 'Midoriyui Beer Stout'. Along with a substantial tap list that includes rotating domestic and overseas drafts, it is being promoted as a place where you can also enjoy darts and food.
Hop BroAt Beer Bar Festa in Shimokitazawa, Matsue Beer Hearn's Midoriyui Beer Stout was tapped on April 30. It's a dark beer, but it has a milky, mild sweetness and restrained bitterness.
MugiHuh, a dark beer that's sweet!? And it even has that chocolate-and-coffee vibe - that's incredibly interesting!
Hop BroExactly. That's what's interesting about it: alongside the stout-like roasted aroma, there's a gentle richness. Since the bitterness is restrained, it's an easy entry point even for dark-beer beginners.
MugiRoasted, as in a toasted sort of flavor? But an easy-drinking dark beer like that is hard for me to picture!
Hop BroYeah, it's the savory aroma of roasted malt. Festa has a wide selection of both domestic and imported beers, and because the rotating taps are so well stocked, you can compare everything from light to fuller-bodied beers.
MugiThat sounds fun! In the domestic lineup, something like Shiga Kogen's fresh-hop-style 'Fresh Hop Grisette' makes me want to drink it because it feels so springlike!
Hop BroAnd the domestic options also include Setouchi's 'Cherry & Strawberry' and Forest's 'Campfire Dunkel', so the mood swings are wide. Overseas, they have everything from IPA and hazy to weizen, and the breadth of styles is impressive.
MugiWait, cherry, strawberry, and double hazy!? My brain is already in a total flavor traffic jam!
Hop BroAnd Festa is on the fifth floor near Shimokitazawa Station, opens at 6 p.m., and last call on weekdays is 1 a.m., so it's easy to stop by after work. It even has all-you-can-throw darts, so the nice thing is that it doesn't end with just drinking.
MugiBeer, food, darts, and then one more drink at the end... that's a stay-awhile rabbit hole!
Hop BroExactly. Starting with the new Midoriyui Beer Stout and slowly working through different taps for the night sounds perfect, right? It's the kind of place where you mean to stop in for a single after-work drink and end up staying longer.
MugiYeah, I've decided! Tonight I want to start with a dark-beer tasting lineup in Shimokitazawa!
Near Shimokitazawa Station, beer pub "Beer Bar Festa (Festa) Shimokitazawa" sent in its tap update for April 30. The newly tapped beer is Matsue Beer Hearn's 'Midoriyui Beer Stout'. It is a dark beer with a milky, mild sweetness and restrained bitterness. It reportedly has depth reminiscent of chocolate and coffee.
On this day, Festa opens at 6 p.m. and last order on weekdays is 1 a.m. The timing makes it easy to stop by at leisure after work, and the setup makes it easy to pair food with draft beer as the core. Since you can enjoy craft beer and darts at the same time inside the shop, it is better suited to lingering while comparing several glasses than to just having one drink and heading home.
Tap List for the Day
Domestic
- Open Air "Good Times"
- Shiga Kogen "Fresh Hop Grisette"
- Setouchi "Cherry & Strawberry"
- Forest "Campfire Dunkel"
- Heartland
Imported
- Hetty Alice "Island Time IPA"
- Threes "Fool's Errand"
- BrewDog "Double Hazy Jane"
- Burnt Mill "Crimson Highway"
- Threes "Between the Lines"
- Silver City "Hefeweizen"
Among the domestic beers are a fresh-hop-style grisette and fruit-forward selections like Cherry & Strawberry, while the imported taps span a wide range of styles from IPA and hazy to weizen. Together with the new dark-beer tap, the lineup lets you choose according to your mood, from something crisp to something fuller-bodied.
Festa is a beer pub on the fifth floor in Shimokitazawa, and one of its features is that it also offers food designed to pair with beer. With all-you-can-throw darts and announcements of in-house events, it offers a "stay awhile" kind of enjoyment that goes beyond just drinking. It is a good fit for a night when you want to take it slow while working your way through a tap list that shows a different face with every glass.
Information may be inaccurate. Please refer to the venue’s official channels for the latest details.
Hop BroAt Beer Bar Festa in Shimokitazawa, Matsue Beer Hearn's Midoriyui Beer Stout was tapped on April 30. It's a dark beer, but it has a milky, mild sweetness and restrained bitterness.
MugiHuh, a dark beer that's sweet!? And it even has that chocolate-and-coffee vibe - that's incredibly interesting!
Hop BroExactly. That's what's interesting about it: alongside the stout-like roasted aroma, there's a gentle richness. Since the bitterness is restrained, it's an easy entry point even for dark-beer beginners.
MugiRoasted, as in a toasted sort of flavor? But an easy-drinking dark beer like that is hard for me to picture!
Hop BroYeah, it's the savory aroma of roasted malt. Festa has a wide selection of both domestic and imported beers, and because the rotating taps are so well stocked, you can compare everything from light to fuller-bodied beers.
MugiThat sounds fun! In the domestic lineup, something like Shiga Kogen's fresh-hop-style 'Fresh Hop Grisette' makes me want to drink it because it feels so springlike!
Hop BroAnd the domestic options also include Setouchi's 'Cherry & Strawberry' and Forest's 'Campfire Dunkel', so the mood swings are wide. Overseas, they have everything from IPA and hazy to weizen, and the breadth of styles is impressive.
MugiWait, cherry, strawberry, and double hazy!? My brain is already in a total flavor traffic jam!
Hop BroAnd Festa is on the fifth floor near Shimokitazawa Station, opens at 6 p.m., and last call on weekdays is 1 a.m., so it's easy to stop by after work. It even has all-you-can-throw darts, so the nice thing is that it doesn't end with just drinking.
MugiBeer, food, darts, and then one more drink at the end... that's a stay-awhile rabbit hole!
Hop BroExactly. Starting with the new Midoriyui Beer Stout and slowly working through different taps for the night sounds perfect, right? It's the kind of place where you mean to stop in for a single after-work drink and end up staying longer.
MugiYeah, I've decided! Tonight I want to start with a dark-beer tasting lineup in Shimokitazawa!
