Collection: Far Yeast Brewing Company @ Wine Stop DTLA
Japanese craft beers with flavor, purpose, and a place at the table.
These are not cheap beers, and they are not trying to be.
Far Yeast Brewing Company makes flavorful 330ml bottles from one of Japan's most thoughtful craft breweries — beers made to be opened with food, shared, talked about, and remembered.
At Wine Stop DTLA, we are proud to offer Far Yeast Brewing Company because these beers belong in the same conversation as the wines, sakes, ciders, and sparkling bottles we already love. They are not loud for the sake of being loud. They are not strange just to be different. They are carefully brewed, aromatic, balanced, food-friendly beers with their own clear identity.
The KAGUA line brings together Japanese ingredients, Belgian brewing and a refined sense of the table. Rouge, Blanc and Saison are created by Far Yeast from original recipes and brewed by its longtime brewing partner, De Graal, in Belgium.
The Tokyo Series — Tokyo White, Tokyo Blonde, and Tokyo IPA — speaks more directly to craft beer drinkers, but still carries the Far Yeast signature: dry, aromatic, flavorful, and balanced. These are recognizable beer styles seen through a Japanese lens, with enough character to be memorable and enough drinkability to keep them enjoyable.
Far Yeast also explores what Japanese beer can be through seasonal and limited releases brewed at its Genryu Brewery in Kosuge Village, Yamanashi. These beers give the brewery room to work with local ingredients, regional producers and new flavor ideas without turning beer into a gimmick.
Wine Stop’s first seasonal release was Mori to Mori Rice Ale, brewed with rice from Hokuto City and sake yeast. That release is now sold out.
Its successor is Far Yeast Hinoki, a crisp pilsner brewed with Japanese cypress from the forests surrounding Kosuge Village. Hinoki wood removed through responsible forest thinning is processed into chips and used to give the beer a restrained herbal, woody fragrance. Saaz hops complement that character with their own delicate, herbaceous aroma.
Mori to Mori connected beer to Yamanashi’s rice fields. Hinoki takes us into its forests. Different beers, but the same Far Yeast idea: using beer to express an ingredient, a community and a place.
When available, Wine Stop DTLA will feature these changing seasonal releases alongside KAGUA Rouge, KAGUA Blanc, KAGUA Saison, Tokyo White, Tokyo Blonde and Tokyo IPA.
Yes, these beers cost more than ordinary beer. Exchange rates, shipping, small production, and imported quality all matter. But the point is simple: these bottles still deliver. You do not open one and feel like you got talked into an overpriced beer. You open one and understand why it has a place here.
Most of these beers are hard to find in Los Angeles retail shops. Many bottles go directly to Japanese restaurants in Little Tokyo and across L.A. We are happy to put them on our shelves at Wine Stop DTLA — not as a novelty, but because they are genuinely worth drinking.
Open with food. Share with friends. Talk about what you taste. That is the point.
KAGUA Series Rouge • Blanc • Saison
Tokyo Series Tokyo White • Tokyo Blonde • Tokyo IPA
Seasonal & Limited Releases Now featuring: Far Yeast Hinoki Previous release: Mori to Mori Rice Ale — Sold Out
