{"id":26544,"date":"2012-08-07T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=26544"},"modified":"2016-12-05T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:25:46","slug":"tanabata-beer-festa-toyama-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/07\/tanabata-beer-festa-toyama-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Make It Myself!: &#8220;Tanabata Beer Festa Toyama 2012&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot-ishikawa.jp\/f-lang\/english\/index.html\">Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ishikawajet.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/07\/master-cooking-in-japan-with-the-ishikawa-kitchen\/\">The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.<em> A writer and web administrator for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajkanazawa.com\/\"><strong>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa &amp; Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a><em>, ze also writes <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.wordpress.com\/\">I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>,<em> a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/2012\/03\/18\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/rice-cooker-chronicles\/\"><strong>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to <strong>jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/img_2258.jpg?w=490&amp;h=653\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"653\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerfesta-toyama.jp\/\">Tanabata Beer Festa Toyama<\/a>, held the first full weekend of July each year in Toyama City, Toyama, is one of Hokuriku\u2019s only beer festivals. I hopped the train south with a couple of our friends for an afternoon of craft beer. I hadn\u2019t been to a beer festival since I left Michigan three years ago, so I was beyond thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>What does one drink when confronted with 20 breweries\u2019 worth of Japan\u2019s finest craft beer? Make a game plan. When I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganbrewersguild.org\/\">Michigan Brewers\u2019 Guild Summer Beer Festival<\/a>, I decided to only drink cherry beers, as those are much harder to get on draft than stouts. This time, after three years of living deprived of regular access to stouts, I circled 5 stouts I\u2019d like to try, got a pizza for lunch, and set to work drinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/illmakeitmyself.net\/2012\/08\/06\/tanabata-beer-festa-toyama-2012\/\"><em>Click HERE for more.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa &amp; Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,368,6],"tags":[445,475,734,732,733,1397,191,736,735,730,731],"class_list":["post-26544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-traveltourism","category-writers","tag-beer","tag-craft-beer","tag-event","tag-festival","tag-hokuriku","tag-ill-make-it-myself","tag-japan","tag-local-breweries","tag-real-beer","tag-tanabata-beer-festa-toyama-2012","tag-toyama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6U8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40655,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26544\/revisions\/40655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}