Limited Release of Sankt Gallen Barley Wine & Wheat Wine
SanktGallen is going to release el Diablo - Barley Wine and Un angel - Wheat Wine in November.
・Barley wine is a style of strong ale of 8-12% ABV, first brewed in England in the 1870s. Use of the word wine is due to its alcoholic strength similar to a wine.
・Wheat wine is a variation on the barley wine style, which uses a large quantity of wheat instead of barley. It is a relatively recent American craft beer style that was first brewed in the 1980s.
Characteristics of them: wine-like alcoholic strength, very rich ,complex and strongly malty aroma and flavor, strong fruitiness and sweetness, full-bodied and chewy mouthfeel.
Which come from much larger amount of barley/wheat and hops they use. They also take longer time to brew, usually a year or more.
el Diablo is brewed with massive amount of hops to balance with malt flavor; which causes.strong hoppiness and bitterness. In contrast, Un angel is brewed with wheat and relatively smaller amount of hops; which results ...
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SanktGallen is the first “Ji-Beer” (local beer) brewery in Japan, located at Atsugi, Kanagawa. All beer is brewed by passionate and skilled president, Nobuhisa Iwamoto.
They named the brewery after Abbey of St. Gall, as the origin of brewing beer. It is a monastery in Switzerland and the first brewery in all of recorded history.
SanktGallen started their history as brewpub in 1993 at San Francisco, CA, since Japan’s strict tax laws didn’t allow microbreweries. At that time, in Japan, breweries could not get a license without producing at least 2 million litres (528,000 gal) per year. They also imported own-brewed beer and brewed low-alcohol beer in yum cha & ji-beer restaurant at Roppongi, Tokyo.
TIME, Newsweek and other US media reported this action and the tough situation of microbrewing in Japan became widely known not only in the US but also in Japan.
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Products are on store at below bottle shops.
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