Breakfast are a little different that morning as we didn't head down to the cafe but instead, we went up to the 30th floor where a teppanyaki restaurant by the name of Kamui is located. Kamui opens from 7am until 10am for breakfast so you'll have multiple choice of breakfast locations to choose from.
The view is magnificent from here as you can catch the breathtaking view of the entire Sapporo. The weather has been great, making a great picturistic moment for me to capture. You could see the mountain covered in snow from far.
Breakfast at Kamui is different from what you get at the Cafe. Kamui only offers 2 types of breakfast. Chinese or Japanese? That's the only range. For Japanese, you'll get Mackerel Fish, Rice, Miso Soup, Soft Boiled Egg, Salad and of course, Fresh Fruits after that.
For Chinese, you'll get a bowl of White Congee, Steamed Fish with Chinese Cruller (Yau Ja Gwai) and a few pieces of Dim Sum. Fresh Fruits are also served after the main course. 
After meal, we headed out to train station again as usual (this is the only transportation method that we frequently use when travelling in Japan) and catch a train to Sapporo City. From the Sapporo City train station, we have two options to get to the museum. Walk or take the cab. Mom grumbled that it will be more than 20 blocks away to walk and opted for the cab and dad just agreed to take the cab with her (honestly, I wanted to walk to the museum but time is against us). The cab ride is about 10 minutes because of the morning traffic. 
As we reach the museum, we were greeted by a field of green grass and leaveless trees. The museum is so obvious because of its chimney where it writes the Sapporo Beer factory all over it. You can see the chimney from a few miles away. 
Now the Sapporo Beer Museum is located at the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku (東区). The factory is registered as one of Hokkaido Heritage sites in the year 2004. This museum is significant as it is the one and only beer museum that's is available throughout the entire Japan. 
Let me try to explain a bit of the museum's history based on the facts that's provided by Wikipedia. The factory, which was build in 1890, was owned by the Sapporo Sugar Company. However, due to the popularization of Taiwanese sugar manufacturers after the end of First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japanese sugar manufacture declined, causing liquidation of the beet manufacturing factory run by the Sapporo Sugar Company. In 1903, the Sapporo Beer Company purchased and remodeled the factory to use as a brewery. 
The factory was operated until 1965, and the Kaitaku-shi Beer Memorial Hall was constructed at the third floor of the building in 1967, which exhibited a number of historical records, tools, and documents practically used in the factory. After the renovation of the building, the Sapporo Beer Museum was officially opened to the public in July 1982. After the function of the factory as a brewery transferred to Eniwa, the building was renovated again and renewedly opened in December 2004. 
The Sapporo Beer Museum has three floors and its open to the public. Admission is free and museum tours are also available at the information counter. 
The exhibition begins from the 3rd floor where it displays the beer bottles, miniatures of the building, and instruments for brewing beer. It also displays the history line of the Sapporo Beer organisation. 
How Sapporo Beer are made? Haha! Now they have cute illustrator being displayed on the 3rd floor of the museum. First off, raw materials needs to be grown and gathered.
Once the raw materials for a good beer production has been gathered, the next step will be the Malting/Wort Production. All the malting process determines how the beers tastes (sweetened or not).
Every liquor will go through the process of Fermentation/Maturation/Filtration after brew and beer is not excluded from this process too.
The last step will be filling it and shipping it to its customers. 
As you move to the second floor, you will be able to see more beer bottles being displayed. Since some products of the DaiNippon Beer Company, a predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery, were also housed in the museum, materials related to the Yebisu Beer are exhibited as well as the Sapporo Beer ones. 
A part of the walls on the second floor are filled with its promotional posters that was made from the establishment of this beer company up to the latest ones being promoted throughout Japan today.Now here comes the best part. Beer tasting!!
Only for 500Yen, you'll 3 glasses of its sample beer. Mom got herself a glass of Sapporo's Cherry Flavoured Beer (which tastes like water actually) while me and dad will share the sample. Each beer purchased comes with snacks so that you don't go drinking on an empty stomach. 
What sample beer they gave? 1 - Sapporo's Black Label. 2 - Yebisu's The Black. 3 - Sapporo's Kaitakushi's Beer. 
Pouring beer requires good skills and the beertender shows their skills on how to reduce the foam when there's too much of it on the glass... by pouring it off into the sink. Haha!
Here I go... Having 2 beers at one go!
I did feel a tiny bit tipsy after tasting 4 glasses of beer, but I was alright a few minutes later. Posing at the museum to mark the date of my visit to this place is a must. Sorry for the small words, the real reason for the photo is to capture the view of the brewer that was placed. I couldn't barely see my face on this picture. **sweat**We finished our tour by getting some souveniers at the 1st floor. It's definitely a good experience to remember as its very rare to find beer museums available on a place that you may be visiting. On my upcoming post, I'll try to walk through the places that I visited in the afternoon period so do come back for a visit soon.
0 comments:
Post a Comment