2016-08-14

Sapporo The Hokkaido Beer



Sapporo is offering a limited edition of its flagship beer brand Sapporo Black Label, called The Hokkaido. This is only available in Hokkaido and uses Hokkaido barley and hops. The hops comes from the Furano area, and the barley comes from both the Furano and the Okhotsk areas of Hokkaido. Some might be confused by Okhotsk, because that is the name of the sea north of Hokkaido as well as a Russian coastal city. This Okhotsk referred to here is a northern sub-prefecture (Hokkaido is one big prefecture). For disambiguation, I have added links to the Wikipedia pages for Okhotsk and Furano below.
サッポロビール オホーツク 富良野 北海道 大麦 ホップ
http://www.sapporobeer.jp/product/sapporo/kurolabel_thehokkaido/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furano,_Hokkaido
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhotsk_Subprefecture

Photo is a web capture for explanatory purposes, copyright belongs to the company.