There are two breweries on Ishigaki Island and they are so far apart in quality. The first one I went to was Ishigakijima Beer Studio Against the Grain, situated very near my hotel. They are based on US styles with a lot of fruit beers. Basically they are bloody awful, well, the golden ale and pale ale I tried were! They tasted very chemically and were not at all true to style.
The other brewery is Ishigakijuma Beer and they are German based. I found an outlet in a shopping mall that served a draught tasting set for 1,200 yen. One was a Weizen style, the other was a lager and the third was a dunkel! They were much better with no funky off flavours! I will take a taxi up to the brewery pub before I leave!
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