Japanese Brewery (Kirin) Totaled in Earthquake (pics)

[passedpawn]

Kirin Brewery location in Sendai obliterated by earthquake and tsunami. I pulled these pics from various news stories. Map link is from Kirin web site.

Satellite map of brewery

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Here is a list of Japanese craft breweries and their effects. I was specifically looking at Hitachino Nest (only one I've tried, makes some good beers) which has damage to the Sake brewery but not the beer brewery. They are currently bottling water.

EDIT: I wonder if those toppled cylinders are the ones that were empty and the full ones stayed upright?

 

[unionrdr]

Oh,the humanity! The horror! Aaaaaarrrgh,my eyes,my eyes!!!!

 

[count_dookie]

those kegs and cans should be fine I would just let them a sit for a little while before drinking them, but I would be looting the crap out of this area if I was there just so I could have some clean drinking water/caloric intake

 

[weirdboy]

EDIT: I wonder if those toppled cylinders are the ones that were empty and the full ones stayed upright?

Nope. Here's a picture from right after. Foamy beer all over the ground and the folks standing on the roof to avoid the tsunami.

From here:
http://eng.pivnoe-delo.info/2011/03/14/japan-kirin-brewery-spills-beer-in-earthquake/

 

[JetSmooth]

More importantly, how many people were hurt there?

 

[unionrdr]

Or,how many drowned in the beer?

 

[Rev2010]

That's terrible. However, I'm sure most of you know the Kirin we get here is brewed here in the States by AB. So no one need to worry about a Kirin shortage.


Rev.

 

[passedpawn]

More importantly, how many people were hurt there?

Because of the extent of the damage from the first 2 disasters, and the chaos that continues with the release of radioactivity from Fukushima Daiichi reactors, it will be a while before that type of question is answered accurately.

[edit] in a not-so-surprising turn of events, Godzilla was just spotted emerging from a nearby mountain and moving south towards Tokyo.

 

[unionrdr]

Oh great. Now that's all they need. He'll stomp the city flat,& drink all the beer that's left. Then chuck the empties at supply ships.

 

[Airborneguy]

If that reactor has a meltdown, Godzilla definitely won't be far behind!

 

[passedpawn]

I'd say a helicopter should start dropping those tanks of pilsner onto the Fuku nuke reactors, thus averting a meltdown.

Is there anything that beer can't do?

 

[DrunkbobSanspants]

Oh the BREWMANITY!

 

[COLObrewer]

. . . . . . . looting the crap out of this area if I was there just so I could have some clean drinking water/caloric intake

When the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown happens in California the gangs will take over any food or beverage facilities and will be extorting desperate starving and thirsty people out of their life savings or anything else they determine is of value for said sustenance. We can only hope that it cracks at the san andreas so we can just put up a big fence around the newly formed Island and turn it into "Penitentiary Islifornia" . . . . . . It's our only hope.

 

[Ki-ri-n]

I can't believe I missed this. I knew about the Earthquake & Tsunami but never thought of the Kirin brewery. Where are my priorities?

 

[nickharbour]

... and nothing of value was lost.

 

[BrewsCampbell]

If that reactor has a meltdown, Godzilla definitely won't be far behind!

Sidenote: google analytics found a huge increase in searches for godzilla as the reactor situation unfolded.

 

[passedpawn]

This is live from Fukushima. They are 14 hours earlier than NY (or 10 hours ahead if you ignore the date)
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInmrpxBldA[/ame]

 

[C-Rider]

Shame about the earthquake and any people killed or hurt but I won't miss Kirin not being on any shelfs. It's just another lager.

 

[Pkrd]

More importantly, how many people were hurt there?

One brewer drowned in a beer lake. His coworkers said he got out three times to pee before he died.