Niseko Brewing

There is a wee craft beer company in the village, called Niseko Brewing.  Really a charming place.  From the outside it looks like an office.  On the ground floor is the brewing room and upstairs is the restaurant, called nikai (meaning second floor). 

There was a nice veranda with a view of Niseko's yellow bridge. 

 R, O and Pikachu 

They gave us a sampling of their beers.  The only one not ready was their Rose Biere. Zannen ne!

Oscar ordered a cold green tea, and rose had a cup of milk tea. 

The chef here wants to use local ingredients as much as possible. We had a very interesting dinner, and mostly delicious. 

Here was a Hokkaido tomato salad. Served with okra and some kind of pickled stem. On top there was shaved daikon radish, some myoga and a jelly made from bonito (dried, fermented fish).

 Here we have sunagimo, which we learned is gizzards.  Cooked with pink peppercorns. Rit loved it. 

Octopus cooked in Niseko beer 

Tempura

This was listed under yasai na mono (vegetable things) on the menu - so I was surprised to see some prawns and some dried sting ray in there.

We all really loved this place.  Mostly because it was so chilled out, we met some lovely people.

Good luck to the guys at Niseko Brewing!