Food & BeverageAlcohol alchemy: Unsold beer reborn as craft gin
Japanese brewery spirits away pandemic-hit pubs' liquid waste problem
Kiuchi's brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, is turning itself into a gin distillery.
NAOTO SHIMAZAKI, Nikkei staff writer
MITO, Japan -- As the coronavirus pandemic keeps customers away, and bars and restaurants are having to dispose of their draft beer, a brewery in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, has come up with a recycling scheme to keep all those suds from going to waste.