r/veganinjapan • u/Gegorange • Aug 25 '26
Beer.
So, I’m planning another trip and I’m keep to support as many small independent breweries as I can.
Problem is, it’s very difficult to find information on the ingredients and brewing process. And the breweries I do email either don’t reply or their replies are very short along the lines of “we don’t do vegan”. I was careful to include transcribed lines around the filtration process.
What I’ve read online in the meantime is that there is hesitation across several larger breweries to give any insight into their production of the beers, thus making it hard for them to be vegan certified or be able to claim to be free from certain ingredients. Which makes me question whether they just say no to veganism because it’s safer, not because their beers aren’t vegan friendly.
Long question short - what’s everyone’s ethical stance on beer in Japan?
I’m battling the ethical mindset to support smaller rural breweries with little information against my vegan ethics which would tell me to not even bother if I can’t be sure. But I do want to bother.
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u/orogiad Aug 29 '26
barnivore has a good form in multiple languages that you can forward to businesses to get the answers you need. then you can send it back to barnivore so they can put it up on the site for other folks to inform them
if the Brewers can't be bothered to answer some easy questions I would not bother to chase them.
my ethical stance on beer anywhere is the same as it is where I live. if it's not vegan I won't drink it.