Ishikawa Brewery Co.Ltd. Touring the Premises/Sake Cellar・Beer・Restaurant

History of Beer Brewing

After the Meiji Restoration, beer began to be brewed in the foreigners' colonies in Yokohama and Hokkaido. In the 1880's or 1890's, beer making started in many places in Japan.
Ishikawa Brewery (presently Ishikawa Brewery Co., Ltd.) began making beer in February ,1888, and in June of the same year, they started selling their beer to customers in neighboring districts, Tokyo and Yokohama by the designation of "Nihon-Bakushu" ("JAPAN BEER" on the English label). A German-style brewing method was employed, and 54,000 liters of lager beer were made per year. However, because crown caps were not used for bottling and the bottles were easy to break, and because of other negative factors, the brewing equipment was sold in 1890.

In 1998, we revived the beer brewery for the first time in 111 years. The revived name is "Tama no Megumi". (tama means this area‘Tama’, megumi means blessing) To brew draft beer, the most important factor is the quality of water. We pump up mineral water from underground on our site. When we brew our beer and our sake, we use this mineral water. From 2015, we released a new line of beer called‘TOKYO BLUES‘. This line is brewed in a traditional way, but we included new tastes.