Romantic Village Craft Brewery

Romantic Village Craft Brewery (ろまんちっく村クラフトブルワリー) is the craft brewery of Michi-no-Eki Utsunomiya Romantic Village in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. According to its official page, it has continued brewing beer using malt produced in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, since opening in 1996. The brewery promotes local agriculture and local consumption, uses two-row barley (beer barley) malt from Utsunomiya, and aims to be a brewery rooted in Tochigi. Its regular beers are planned for fermentation and maturation of 45 to 65 days, and bottled regular beer is given a best-before period of 40 days from bottling. Brewery tours are possible from mid-January to around the end of June.

According to the official brewery page, Romantic Village Craft Brewery has continued brewing beer using malt produced in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, since it opened in 1996. The page states that Tochigi Prefecture has been a leading beer-barley producing area in Japan since the Taisho era, and that the brewery promotes local agriculture and local consumption, using two-row barley (beer barley) malt from Utsunomiya, Tochigi. It aims to be a brewery rooted in Tochigi and to build the brand of 'Mugi-dokoro Tochigi' (Tochigi, the barley region) through barley cultivation, malting, agricultural experiences, and beer events. The page also describes production: regular beers are planned for fermentation and maturation of 45 to 65 days, and bottled regular beer has a best-before period of 40 days from bottling. Brewery tours are possible from mid-January to around the end of June.

A brewery rooted in Tochigi that promotes local agriculture and local consumption, brewing with Utsunomiya-grown two-row barley malt.

• Regular beers

  Planned for fermentation and maturation of 45 to 65 days; bottled regular beer has a best-before period of 40 days from bottling.

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