Novel Craft adds homemade burgers and By The Glass pours
Novel Craft, a beer pub in Setagaya, opened at 17:00 with homemade-bun burgers, By The Glass pours, and dessert. The line-up included a raspberry wild ale and a saison on draft-by-the-glass, plus a broad tap list mixing guest beers, collaborations, and house brews.
Hop BroNovel Craft in Chitose-Karasuyama really nails the 5 p.m. beer-pub setup. House-made bun burgers, By The Glass pours, and dessert all lined up.
MugiWait, house-made bun burgers too? That’s not just beer food, that’s my whole dinner plan hijacked!
Hop BroExactly, and Novel Craft has two burgers, regular and cheese, mostly on Fridays through Sundays, plus pastry chef Mayu’s rare cheesecake dessert waiting at the end.
MugiWhoa, but what is By The Glass supposed to mean? Isn’t all beer already... in a glass?
Hop BroThat’s the fun part. It lets you follow a bottle opening in glass pours, and this time they had Pen Druid’s raspberry Wild Ale Spontaneous Cherrys and Another Moon’s Saison Earthly Pleasures as two featured pours.
MugiWild Ale and Saison sound like fermentation wizardry. What do those actually taste like?
Hop BroWild Ale tends to bring acidity and layered fermentation character, while Saison usually drinks crisp and dry. So the theme here is really tartness and dry finish.
MugiOkay, I get it now! Bite the burger, wash it down with raspberry tartness, then finish with cheesecake... that’s the infinite combo right there!
Hop BroAnd the taps are stacked too: Kemkur’s Coolship Pils, Belwoods’ Come What May Dry-Hopped, Ruse Brewing’s Glass Shadows IPA, falo × karakuri’s SAGE, Cave D'occi × Novel Craft’s Reflection, plus Novel Craft Brewing’s own Over Dub, BPM 80, and Down Tempo in one guest-and-house lineup.
MugiThat’s the kind of list where tasting flights become a life choice! It’s basically the perfect weekend excuse.
Hop BroThat’s Novel Craft’s real strength: it works whether food leads or beer leads. I’d start with Glass Shadows IPA and then drift over to Spontaneous Cherrys halfway through.
MugiI’m going cheese burger with Earthly Pleasures, then cheesecake after. At this point, all I’ve got left is I need a drink.
At Novel Craft in Minamikarasuyama, Setagaya, the 17:00 opening on this day centered on homemade-bun burgers, By The Glass pours, and dessert. The burger menu was limited to a normal burger and a cheeseburger, with burgers served on Fridays through Sundays for the time being. Pastry staff Mayu's rare cheesecake added a clear dessert option to the beer-and-food flow.
The By The Glass line-up had two pours: Pen Druid's Spontaneous Cherrys, a raspberry wild ale at 7.5% ABV, and Another Moon's Earthly Pleasures, a 5.2% saison. Both lean toward acidity, dryness, and layered fermentation character rather than sweetness, so they suit drinkers who want a slower, more contemplative glass.
The tap list broadened the range: Kemkur's Coolship Pils, Belwoods' Come What May Dry-Hopped, Ruse Brewing's Glass Shadows IPA, falo × karakuri's SAGE, Cave D'occi × Novel Craft's Reflection, and Novel Craft Brewing's own Over Dub, BPM 80, and Down Tempo. The mix of guest pours, collaborations, and house beer makes Novel Craft feel like a place to build an evening around both food and beer.
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Hop BroNovel Craft in Chitose-Karasuyama really nails the 5 p.m. beer-pub setup. House-made bun burgers, By The Glass pours, and dessert all lined up.
MugiWait, house-made bun burgers too? That’s not just beer food, that’s my whole dinner plan hijacked!
Hop BroExactly, and Novel Craft has two burgers, regular and cheese, mostly on Fridays through Sundays, plus pastry chef Mayu’s rare cheesecake dessert waiting at the end.
MugiWhoa, but what is By The Glass supposed to mean? Isn’t all beer already... in a glass?
Hop BroThat’s the fun part. It lets you follow a bottle opening in glass pours, and this time they had Pen Druid’s raspberry Wild Ale Spontaneous Cherrys and Another Moon’s Saison Earthly Pleasures as two featured pours.
MugiWild Ale and Saison sound like fermentation wizardry. What do those actually taste like?
Hop BroWild Ale tends to bring acidity and layered fermentation character, while Saison usually drinks crisp and dry. So the theme here is really tartness and dry finish.
MugiOkay, I get it now! Bite the burger, wash it down with raspberry tartness, then finish with cheesecake... that’s the infinite combo right there!
Hop BroAnd the taps are stacked too: Kemkur’s Coolship Pils, Belwoods’ Come What May Dry-Hopped, Ruse Brewing’s Glass Shadows IPA, falo × karakuri’s SAGE, Cave D'occi × Novel Craft’s Reflection, plus Novel Craft Brewing’s own Over Dub, BPM 80, and Down Tempo in one guest-and-house lineup.
MugiThat’s the kind of list where tasting flights become a life choice! It’s basically the perfect weekend excuse.
Hop BroThat’s Novel Craft’s real strength: it works whether food leads or beer leads. I’d start with Glass Shadows IPA and then drift over to Spontaneous Cherrys halfway through.
MugiI’m going cheese burger with Earthly Pleasures, then cheesecake after. At this point, all I’ve got left is I need a drink.
