In Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, which was a trading hub with the Netherlands in the early Edo period, beer that is believed to have been brewed for the first time in Japan about 400 years ago has been recreated.
According to Hirado City, in the account books of the Hirado Dutch Trading Post, which was a trading base in East Asia in the early Edo period, there is a record that brown sugar was imported in 1636 and used for brewing beer. It is said to be the oldest record of beer brewing in Japan.
The museum has been working with a brewery in Tokushima Prefecture since last year to reproduce beer based on this record, and this time it has been completed.
The beer is based on the recipe of the beer that the Netherlands exported to the Orient, and in addition to using brown sugar as an ingredient in the same way as at the time, beer was stored in oak barrels, so oak barrels were used. Chips are added as flavoring.
Yoshiharu Okayama, director of the Hirado Dutch Trading Post, said, "I believe that beer at that time was used as a tool for international exchange. I hope that this reproduced beer will also become a tool for interaction between citizens and tourists. I was talking.
Beer can be purchased not only at the museum, but also at direct sales stores for local products in Hirado City and on the Internet.