Microbrewing in Japan Tokyo Experiences First Taste of Japan Microbrew . This is a reasonable limit but it is still a challenge for a private individual. To qualify for a brewery license, you must provide the local tax office with a business plan demonstrating your ability to produce and distribute 60kl per year. Your local tax office will have many other requirements as well, like complete layout blueprints. If you are not Japanese or completely fluent, don t attempt this alone.
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These must be made with approximately half malt and half fruit or other adjuncts. Unfortunately, the finished product probably will not taste much like beer. But most experts will say the quality of an extract beer is inferior to an all malt beer. There is also a tax difference between beer and low malt happo-shu. The tax is 222yen per liter for regular beer and 152yen for happo-shu.