A quick foray over to Kyobashi to our favourite hole-in-the-wall standing bar — the excellent Towers — for their annual Golden Week special...
This year, the draw for us was Ao-Oni (the "Blue Devil") from Nagano's excellent Yaho Brewing — not the version you get in cans (from select retail outlets) but real ale, gravity dispensed from the wooden keg.
Unfortunately there was only the single keg and it was small (officially 40 pints, but apparently this one only dispensed 35)‚ and we were later than we'd planned. So we missed out. Ah well, there's always next year...
(make that RIP for that keg!)
I introduced Towers in my column the year it opened (scroll down to the bottom). Was it really 5 years ago?
