» japan http://175proof.com Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:06:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 All Natural Blue Coloured Beer http://175proof.com/beer-commercials/all-natural-blue-coloured-beer/ http://175proof.com/beer-commercials/all-natural-blue-coloured-beer/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:47:16 +0000 admin http://175proof.com/?p=555 Was alerted to this, courtesy of  my mate Jeremy Seow. I’d try it, only cos its made form all natural ingredients, including the blue colouring. The guy in the video makes me want to drink blue beer.

Okhotsk Blue Draft: The Japanese Beer made from melting Icebergs

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And Blue seaweed, for coloring of course.  Looks refreshing, at least that’s what I thought after watching the video. Now I also know that Chinese yams contain ingredients good for foaming beer.

The Hokkaido Abashiri Microbrewery also makes normal coloured beers, for those of you not keen on drinking beer that looks like cookie monster. And here’s what I could decipher frpom the brewery homepage:

The image of the empty sea of Okhotsk ice “Okhotsk blue” light仕上GEMASHITA to tap fresh water used to taste better with the ice in the Sea of Okhotsk仕込concept.
東京農業大学生物産業学部による技術指導のもと開発され、今までにない澄んだ鮮やかなオホーツクブルーの海ときめ細かい泡立ちにより泡は、ほんのりブルーで海に浮かぶ流氷をイメージさせます。 Technology was developed under the guidance of Tokyo University of Agriculture Faculty of Biological industries, fine chemicals and the foam of the sea of Okhotsk and vivid blue in the past is not clear, let the image of the ice floating in the sea faintly blue.

グラスに注ぐとそこには、ロマンあふれる冬のオホーツク海が広がります。 Pour into a glass and it will expand the Sea of Okhotsk in winter full of romance.
地元の素材にこだわる当社の工場長の思いが作り上げた自慢の一品です。 The dish is made to feel proud of our plant manager to stick with local ingredients.

DRAFT ice privacy Birth

流氷DRAFTを醸造するにあたり、海面に浮かぶ流氷を泡で表現しようと考えました。 DRAFT ice as you brew, and thought to express in a bubble floating on the sea ice.

そこで泡立ちをよくするために模索していたところ、東京農業大学の永島教授から、ナガイモを使用することを提案されました。 I was looking to improve their bubbling So Nagashima professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture, has been proposed to use the Chinese yam. ナガイモには、泡立ちを良くする成分が含んでいることは、永島教授の研究においても実証されています。 The Chinese yam, which contains the ingredients that make up a good foam is also demonstrated in the study of Professor Nagashima.

また、オホーツクブルーにもこだわり、最古の植物といわれるスピルリナ(多くの成分を含有し、健康食品として服用されている)を使用し、幾度となく試行錯誤を繰り返し、クリアーで鮮やかな海の色を再現することに成功しました。 Also, stick to the blue of Okhotsk, spirulina is said that the oldest plants (containing the component of that is taken as a health food), and can often by trial and error and with the vivid colors of the sea in clear to reproduce successfully.

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