Minami Shinshu Beer
- Address
- Miyada Village, Nagano, 4752-31
- Area
- Nagano Miyada Village
What kind of brewery is Minami Shinshu Beer?
Hop BroMinami Shinshu Beer was founded in 1996 and is Nagano Prefecture's first craft beer maker. It has nearly 30 years of history.
MugiThe first one! A pioneer. What kind of company started it?
Hop BroIts parent company is Honbo Shuzo, a distillery founded in 1872 and a long-established maker of shochu and whisky. That brewing and distilling DNA is in the beer too.
MugiA whisky company making beer? That's an interesting combination.
Hop BroAnd the brewery is located on the grounds of the Mars Komagatake Distillery. At 800 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Central Alps. They also do fermentation using whisky barrels, so the strength of being co-located with a distillery really shows.
MugiFermentation in whisky barrels!? That's something a regular brewery definitely can't do. What does the brand name 'Ogna' mean?
Hop Bro'Ogna' is a coined word made by rearranging the letters of 'NAGANO'. Their standard Golden Ale has a bright, refreshing muscat-like citrus aroma, Amber Ale has a great balance of caramel malt toastiness and hop bitterness, and Dunkel Weizen is a wheat dark beer with a rich banana aroma.
MugiA dark beer with banana aroma sounds intriguing...! Do they have fruit-based ones too?
Hop BroApple Hop uses apples from Minami Shinshu, and Blueberry Hop is a fruit happoshu made with blueberries from Oshika Village. The brewing water is meltwater from the Central Alps that has slowly seeped underground over many years and contains natural minerals.
MugiYou can drink it at the distillery shop, right? Beer and whisky hopping, amazing! I want to go!
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