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» Beverage Industry News » Tomato Beer

Tomato Beer

Beverage Industry News» Beverage Industry Newsposted Dec 13th, 2005 02:27:57AM by pbrewadmin

Japanese brewery has previously use pears and green tea

A Japanese brewery and determined pub owner teamed to produce a tomato-based low-malt beer.

Tomato Bibere combines the sweet flavor of a tomato with the bitter taste of hops. One tomato is used in the production of each 330ml bottle of reddish beer.

Isamu Waki, who runs an izakaya pub in Tokyo, has been asking other brewers to produce a tomato beer for years. Hirofumi Koda, president of Echigo Beer Co., was the first brewery operator to take him up on the idea.

Waki pinned his last hope on Echigo Beer, which has produced beer from rice, pears and even green tea. “I was overwhelmed by Waki’s enthusiasm for the project, so I decided to go for it,” said Koda, who himself does not care for tomatoes.

The master brewer aimed at making a healthy drink, so all of the ingredients are organic. Since tomatoes are fibrous and have a low-sugar content, filtration and fermentation were especially difficult. The first trial product, which took five months to make, was watery and barely tasted of tomatoes. Koda called it vile.

Koda and Waki tasted various trial versions of the beer by altering the amount of tomatoes and by increasing the sugar content to improve the beer they finally released.

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