A businessman in Tochigi Prefecture is showing how anyone can enter the microbrewery market and make a wide variety of flavored beers in very small amounts, something made possible under tax law deregulation.
Sadao Yokosuka, 51, operates a tiny brewery in Utsunomiya, where a 70-centimeter-high brewing pot stands in the space of a typical Japanese home kitchen.
He boils malt and adds fruits and vegetables such as strawberries, pears, Chinese chives and even habanero peppers grown in the neighborhood.