Stay Home, Japan, You're Drunk! (w/ Matthew Boynton)
Craft Beer Pioneer Matthew Boynton of Sakamichi Brewing talks about starting an alcohol business in the new, smoke-free, covid-filled landscape of Japan, a country so steeped in drinking "culture" that it probably shouldn't drive.
Craft Beer Pioneer Matthew Boynton of Sakamichi Brewing talks about starting an alcohol business in the new, smoke-free, covid-filled landscape of Japan, a country so steeped in drinking "culture" that it probably shouldn't drive.
Plus, Ollie recommends a cruise for passengers who want to be prepared for the worst,
and, you know what? Bobby DID wake up in a bath tub full of ice on his last river cruise, but he honestly can't tell whether or not anything is missing.
Topics discussed on this episode range from:
Plus, Ollie recommends a cruise for passengers who want to be prepared for the worst,
and, you know what? Bobby DID wake up in a bath tub full of ice on his last river cruise, but he honestly can't tell whether or not anything is missing.
Topics discussed on this episode range from:
- How we're toasting the end of the Internet Explorer Era
- What goes in to our first official podcast beverage
- What Ollie REALLY thinks of Craft Beer fans
- Matthew's road to opening a craft beer brewery in Japan
- How craft beer customers defied both Japan and Matthew's expectations
- THE EASIEST QUESTION WE'VE EVER ASKED ANYONE
- Sexist tropes in Japanese marketing to women, and how Matthew avoids them by using a groundbreaking philosophy of treating female customers as individuals
- How to qualify for the chance to APPLY for a business loan
- How the changing landscape of Japan around drinking culture due to covid has impacted Sakamichi Brewing's business
- This Article
- How sometimes Japan changes its rules and regulations on the fly to adapt to societal forces
- The preclusive requirements to get a license to start a brewery
- How the Craft Beer industry began in Japan with the Ji-beer movement, and how that set the reputation for craft beer as being... bad
- The lengths that Matthew's customers go to get a bunch of alcohol in their veins
- The indoor smoking ban, and how wistful alcoholics may have forgotten about it when they dream of a return to pre-covid normalcy
- How all the people who talk about drinking as a social and professional obligation have been spending their time at home, free of social and professional obligations
- What does "drinking culture" really mean?
- Comparing the changes in alcohol consumption habits between Japan and the UK and the US
- The General Soleimani assassination reference that FINALLY made it into the final edit of a JBRC show
- Matthew's Answer to another super easy question: does he think craft beer is as useless as Ollie's comedy?
- What we're all going to do when the perks of modern civilization disappear
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