The new release unveiled by Flora Fermentation (Shiga) on its official blog is less a mere new product than a beer that defines the brewery's core.

According to the article, the brewery produced more than 50 limited beers in the roughly year and a half since the plant began operating. While continuing to experiment, it also came to feel the "ephemerality" of limited brewing and strongly recognized the need for a regular beer that could "always express who we are." The fact that breweries they admire have an "absolute regular" of their own also helped push this development forward.

As the result of those discussions, the style they arrived at after debate among three members was lager. The name is simply FLORA LAGER. It is positioned as Flora's flagship.

On the recipe side, they visited Rahr's malting facility in Canada and the U.S., a malt maker tied to head brewer Kai's home country of Canada. For hops, they used U.S.-grown Comet and Green Bullet from Clayton Hops, the New Zealand hop farm where member Onishi used to work. The intended beer profile was "a clean, herbal premium lager with a strong malt character," and the story carries through the ingredient choices as well.

Just as the official site proclaims, "a brewery that makes the best beer woven from agriculture and fermentation," the brewery has emphasized connections to ingredients and their places of origin. Turning this into a regular beer can also be seen as bringing that philosophy into a form you can drink every day.

The article closes with "We hope to drink and grow this FLORA LAGER together with everyone," and how it develops in future batches will be another point to watch. Flora, which has amazed drinkers with its limited releases, now faces the question of how it will build trust through a regular beer. It looks like a release worth following closely for beer fans.

Source: https://florafermentation.blog/2026/02/11/flora-lager/
Brewery: https://florafermentation.blog/