Far Yeast Brewing and AAR Japan start COVID-19 support campaign, 「Cheers to Support」June 1st start

Far Yeast Brewing (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President: Shiro Yamada) and international NGO, Association for Aid and Relief (AAR) Japan (Head office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President: Yukie Osa) will start a COVID-19 support campaign, “Cheers to Support,” starting June 1st. Far Yeast Brewing and AAR Japan will begin selling two kinds of packages including craft beers, PPE, hand sanitizer, and a limited edition commemorative wooden coaster on Far Yeast Brewing’s online store (https://faryeast.stores.jp). Far Yeast Brewing will donate part of the proceeds to AAR Japan for COVID-19 emergency responses such as assisting people in developing countries to prevent the infection and supporting disability welfare facilities in Japan. 

“Cheers to Support”was named with a wish for people to “cheer”up each other to overcome the COVID-19 crisis by purchasing beer and have “Cheers!”time.


Far Yeast Brewing has carried out the campaign, “Clap for Carers” since April 21st, which delivers free lunch to medical workers who engage in health care at the frontline to fight against COVID-19. Lots of craft beer fans purchased the “Clap for Carers” beer set, and sent gratitude towards them with lunch boxes. As of May 27th, more than 840 free lunch boxes were delivered to medical workers of Keio University Hospital, and the campaign will continue until the end of May. 

Although the rate of COVID-19 infections in Japan is currently in decline, it’s difficult to predict  how the outbreak will progress around the world. To contribute further toward COVID-19 relief, from June 1st 2020 Far Yeast Brewing is starting a new joint project with an International NGO, AAR Japan, to assist vulnerable populations such as refugees and persons with disabilities (PWDs). The assistance will be delivered to refugee camps abroad and disability welfare facilities in Japan. 

Far Yeast Brewing’s craft beers have been enjoyed widely around the world. We are excited to ask all beer fans to work together to overcome this crisis. Part of the sales of “Cheers to Support”products are donated to AAR Japan to assist the lives of refugees and PWDs.

For “Clap for Carers,” customers can support Japanese healthcare workers while enjoying craft beer packages. “Cheers to Support,” empowers customers to choose to whom they want to give their support in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis by purchasing one of two packages:

「Cheers to Support 」URL: https://faryeast.com/cheers-to-support/

 

■Cheers to Support Refugees

Refugee camps are often overcrowded and suffer from poor hygiene condition. If one person becomes infected, it could cause a rapid epidemic in the area. AAR Japan has been implementing hygiene education in a refugee camp in Bangladesh where a lot of people fled from Myanmar and also in Pakistan as its health care system is not strong. Part of the sales of “Cheers to Support Refugees”will directly go to mitigate the outbreak for such high-risk groups.

 

<Cheers to Support Refugees>

Items in the package

– 6 bottles of craft beers including 「馨和 KAGUA」brewed in overseas

– AAR Japan official goods, bath soap

– Limited commemorative wooden coaster

Price : JPY 5,500 tax and shipping fee included

For more information and to choose either of  the “Cheers to Support”packages after June 1st, visit our online store (https://faryeast.stores.jp/)

■Cheers to Support PWDs

In spite of the significant needs of sanitary goods such as masks, sanitizers and gloves in home nursing services and welfare facilities for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Japan, it may often be overlooked. To provide necessary protective equipment to these places and people in need, following package is arranged. Part of the proceeds from “Cheers to Support PWDs,” will go directly to supporting PWDs in Japan.

<Cheers to Support PWDs>

Items in the package

– 6 bottles and cans of craft beers including 「FAR YEAST」brewed in domestic

– AAR Japan official goods, bath soap

– Limited commemorative wooden coaster

Price : JPY 5,500 tax and shipping fee included

For more information and to choose either of  the “Cheers to Support”packages after June 1st, visit our online store (https://faryeast.stores.jp/)

 

About Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan)

AAR Japan is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with no political, ideological or religious affiliation established in 1979. Since then, its mission has evolved into providing assistance to the most vulnerable people in the world. AAR Japan now operates mine action and assistance for PWDs as well as people affected by disaster and conflict mainly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. 

For the emergency response to relief COVID-19 outbreak, AAR Japan has been providing personal protective equipment such as masks and sanitizers to disability welfare facilities in Japan. Hygiene education has been implemented in countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan.

https://www.aarjapan.gr.jp/ 

 

About Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

“Democratizing beer” – Developed under the mission to “ re-establish the diversity and abundance of true beer culture, which has sadly been hidden by relentless over-commercialisation.” To achieve this goal, we enlist our Japanese flavored beer brand “Kagua,” Tokyo themed brand “Far Yeast,” and Innovative beer brand “Off Trail” to spread our distinctive beers to the world.

 

Company Profile

Company name         Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

Founded                     September 7, 2011

Capital        64,975 thousand yen

Head office address       2-6-8 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 5th floor

Representative Director   Shiro Yamada

Business                       Craft beer brewing, distribution sales. Restaurant management.

URL                                   https://faryeast.com

 

<Contact Information>

For Press

Far Yeast Brewing Company

Attn. : Oshiro, Sasaki
Mail:pr@faryeast.com
TEL:03-6849-2812

For Liquor store, Restaurants

Mail:sales@fareast.com
TEL:050-3135-3926

Off Trail Launches 5th limited release project, “Saigon Fervor”: passion fruit barrel-aged sour beer.

Off Trail #5: Limited edition barrel-aged sour beer with passion fruit, “Saigon Fervor,” is now on sale. The “Off Trail” brand focuses on innovation and continuing to challenge conventional beer brewing methods. This blend takes “Saigon Passion,” a beer made in collaboration with “Heart of Darkness” brewery in Ho Chi Mihn, Vietnam, to a whole new level by using different yeast, primary fermentation in wood rather than stainless steel, and extended barrel aging time.

While brewing “Saigon Passion,” we syphoned off some of the wort to be fermented on Brettanomyces Claussenii in old Sake barrels. By allowing primary fermentation to occur in this environment, we hoped to start a co-fermentation with our inoculating yeast (Brett. C.) and other wild yeasts and bacteria living in the barrels’ wood. After primary fermentation had calmed down, we added additional passion fruit juice from Vietnam and aged the beer for 6 months to allow Brettanomyces to slowly ferment the remaining complex sugars in the beer.

This process and yeast combination culminated in a fruit-forward, refreshing passion fruit sour beer with complex aromatics and tannins derived from oak barrels and wild yeast. Compare “Saigon Passion” and “Saigon Fervor” side-by-side to truly appreciate the strong effects of these subtle differences in process.

Name: Saigon Fervor

Release Date: Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Price: Open Price

Ingredients: Malted Barley made in Germany, Sugar, Wheat, Passion Fruit, Hops.

ABV: 5.4%

Style: Barrel-Aged Sour Ale

Product Type:Happoshu

Brewery: Far Yeast Brewing Genryu Brewery 

(Kosuge village, Yamanashi Prefecture)   

Format: 330ml Bottle, 750ml Bottle, 10L SUS keg

 

To purchase, please go to the URL below.

https://faryeast.stores.jp/items/5ec73b6355fa037996db45f3

Far Yeast Brewing to start supporting healthcare workers fighting the new coronavirus by donating special lunch boxes.

You can participate in this project by purchasing Far Yeast beers.

Far Yeast Brewing (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President: Shiro Yamada) started free delivery of bento boxes to Keio University Hospital, Shinjuku, Tokyo beginning Tuesday, April 21st to support frontline medical workers in the fight against COVID-19.
Clap for Carers 医療従事者サポートプロジェクト

While the new coronavirus continues spreading across the nation, frontline healthcare workers have been facing constant battles, treating patients day and night.

We would like to thank all the health care professionals who are engaged in medical care to protect the lives of new coronavirus patients in environments with severe infection risks. We at Far Yeast Brewing are committed to doing what we can to support them in this difficult task. 

Our company-owned bar “Far Yeast Tokyo Craft Beer & Bao” in Shibuya is currently closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The facility and kitchen staff have shifted daily operations to making nutritionally balanced, delicious lunch and delivering it directly to medical staff.

We started offering lunch boxes to Keio University Hospital on Tuesday, April 21st. The background history of this project is that one of Far Yeast Brewing’s executive staffs graduated from Keio University, and we, as Far Yeast brewing, used to participate in their alumni event “Keio Union Mitakai Convention” in the past. So we had a connection with Keio University, and this time, we proposed this donating bento box project to a pediatrician doctor at Keio University Hospital. The pediatric team kindly enough accepted this project, and we started providing lunchboxes to them.

At the same time, we launched a support project for healthcare workers. We titled it as “Clap for Carers,” and we are seeking supporters who can support the bento donation activities for healthcare workers.  We released product bundling called “Clap for Carers Support,” which is a set of craft beers and branded glassware, and we pledge using a part of sales for supporting this donation activity. We hope that this circle of support for healthcare professionals will spread and grow. And people will strengthen solidarity to overcome this crisis as soon as possible.

Clap for Cares – Healthcare professionals support project. 

You can support healthcare professionals by purchasing “Clap for Cares Support Set”. 

We will use a part of the sales of this set for funding the support activities to deliver the lunch box to the healthcare professionals.

 

「Clap for Carers – 医療従事者サポートプロジェクト」サイト: https://faryeast.com/clapforcarers/ 

【Clap for Carers】support set 

The Set includes

Craft Beers (7 bottles and 3 cand beer)

Original glassware and coaster

・Price :7,000 JPY(tax incl.)【Free shipping cost】

・Available at Far Yeast Brewing official online store

 

Clap for Carers is a recurring gesture of appreciation and respect for the workers of the health care industry during the global pandemic of COVID-19, and this movement is spreading all over the world. Through this lunch box donation activity, we hope we can facilitate support from the people to the health care staff. 

 

About Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

“Democratizing beer” – Developed under the mission to “ re-establish the diversity and abundance of true beer culture, which has sadly been hidden by relentless over-commercialisation.” To achieve this goal, we enlist our Japanese flavored beer brand “Kagua,” Tokyo themed brand “Far Yeast,” and Innovative beer brand “Off Trail” to spread our distinctive beers to the world.

 

Company Profile

Company name         Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

Founded                     September 7, 2011

Capital        64,975 thousand yen

Head office address       2-6-8 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 5th floor

Representative Director   Shiro Yamada

Business                       Craft beer brewing, distribution sales. Restaurant management.

URL                                   https://faryeast.com

Craft gin made of craft beer! The first collaboration between Far Yeast Brewing and Kitaya. “KAGUA GIN” launches in mid-May. 

Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President: Shiro Yamada), delivering various unique Japanese craft beers to beer fans around the world, and Kitaya Co., Ltd. (Head office: Yame, Fukuoka, President: Kotaro Kinoshita), a long-established Japanese Shochu distillery and Sake brewing company, will release the collaboration product “Kagua gin” in the middle of April. “Kagua gin” is made by distilling Far Yeast brewing’s signature product Kagua Saison.

Far Yeast Brewing and Kitaya export beer to over 20 countries and sake and spirits to 18 countries respectively. Despite our differences in product and process, we at Far Yeast Brewing and Kitaya share the same importer to the United States (Wine of Japan Import Inc.). It was through this relationship that we introduced the idea of a cross-industry collaboration

The concept behind KAGUA, one of our core brands at Far Yeast, is Japanese Fragranced ale. Kagua beers are brewed with herbs and fruits of Japanese origin such as Sansho pepper and Yuzu citrus. Kagua gin is distilled from Kagua Saison, boasting the most potent scent of Yuzu in the Kagua series. After distillation into high-quality spirits, Kagua gin is finished with a healthy dose of botanicals. This craft gin combines a fresh yuzu citrus scent and juniper berry flavor, with a rich flavor of hops and esters derived from Kagua Saison. Kagua gin is recommended for both craft beer fans and craft gin fans.

We continue on our mission to create unique Japanese themed beers to spread new distinctive beers to the world.

 

【Product specs】

Name:KAGUA GIN

Release Date:Mid April 2020

Price: Recommended retail price in Japan JPY 4,500 

Ingredients: Beer, Juniper berry, Yuzu.

ABV: 45%

Style: Gin

Product Type:Spirits

Product origin:374 Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan 

Kitaya Co., Ltd.

Format:500ml Bottle

 

About KAGUA

“KAGUA”, meaning “Waga-Kaoru,” can be translated as Japanese fragrant beer. Kagua uses unique ingredients such as Sansho pepper and Yuzu. The beers are full-bodied with smooth carbonation from secondary fermentation in the bottle. The Kagua lineup has built its reputation as a high-quality, creative beer among beer fans worldwide since its launch.

In addition to Saison, Kagua has two other flagship products: Blanc and Rouge. Blanc is a strong wheat ale with a gorgeous ester and citrus aroma. Rouge is a strong ale spiced with sansho pepper and offers a savory malt aroma. Each of these unique beers offer a complex and flavorful experience not dissimilar to wine.  You can find Kagua at Michelin starred restaurants and luxury hotels and restaurants overseas.

https://faryeast.com/kagua/

 

About Kitaya Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1820, Kitaya celebrates their 200th anniversary this year, 2020. 

Since the company’s inception, they have followed their family constitution, that “the owner has to make the sake,” and their corporate philosophy, “spreading joy to people through sake.” Their premium sake product, “Daiginjo Gokujo Kitaya,” earned the world’s best champion Sake award at the 2013 International Wine Challenge in London.

Kitaya also produces distilled liquor and in 1973, having the ambition to spread Kyushu’s authentic shochu to the world, Kitaya pioneered the first vacuum distillation method in the shochu industry. Distilling at a lower temperature allowed them to preserve the fragrance of moromi, otherwise destroyed by heat, and cemented their position as the leading player in the Japanese shochu boom. This vacuum distillation technology is also used for Kagua gin. 

https://www.kitaya.co.jp/

About Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

“Democratizing beer” – Developed under the mission to, “ re-establish the diversity and abundance of true beer culture, which has sadly been hidden by relentless over-commercialisation.”

To achieve this goal, we enlist our Japanese flavored beer brand “Kagua,” Tokyo themed brand “Far Yeast,” and Innovative beer brand “Off Trail” to spread our distinctive beers to the world.

https://faryeast.com/ 

 

Company Profile

Company name       Far Yeast Brewing Co., Ltd.

Head office address     2-6-8 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 5th floor

Brewery address       4341 Kosuge-mura, Kitatsuru-gun, Yamanashi 

Representative Director Shiro Yamada

Founded                     September 7, 2011

Capital 64,975 thousand Japanese yen

Business                     Craft beer brewing, distribution sales. Restaurant management.

URL                              https://faryeast.com

 

Japan-Korea collaboration, Far Yeast Brewing teams up with Gorilla Brewing. Perfect for the spring season! A refreshing flavor of “Laurel leaves.” “GREATEST NEIGHBOUR” hits the market on March 27!

A new limited collaboration beer with Gorilla Brewing from Busan, Korea, “GREATEST NEIGHBOUR,” will be released on March 27th, 2020. 

Despite the difficult diplomatic relationship between Japan and South Korea, we decided to collaborate through beer with the common goal of growing the industry and exciting beer fans. 

“GREATEST NEIGHBOUR” was brewed with laurel leaves, the material that makes up the laurel wreath, a symbol of victory and glory for the Olympic games. This collaboration beer is meant to symbolize passing the baton from the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games to the Tokyo Olympics. As the base recipe of this beer comes from our Tokyo White, a Wheat Saison, the bottle’s label features a unique white gorilla wearing a laurel wreath. Please grab it when you find it at a store near you and enjoy the refreshing flavor of this laurel saison.

Gorilla Brewing, an up-and-coming craft brewery established in Busan, South Korea in 2015, exports their award winning, high-quality beers to 12 countries around the globe. A rising star at the Asia Beer Championship in 2019, their tasty beers are well worth keeping an eye out for.

https://gorillabrewingcompany.com/

Product specs

Name:GREATEST NEIGHBOUR

Release Date:Friday, March 27th, 2020

Price:Open Price

Ingredients: Malted Barley, Malted Wheat, Raw Wheat, Hops, Laurel, Sugar

ABV:5.0%

IBU:18

Style: Saison

Product Type:Beer

Brewery:Far Yeast Brewing Genryu Brewery (Kosuge village, Yamanashi Prefecture)   

Format:330ml Bottle