Limited Edition Barrel-Aged Craft Beer 'Rinki Ohen ~Barrel Aged Wheat Wine~' Goes on Sale April 2, 2026.

The craft beer brewery 'HIROSHIMA NEIGHBORLY BREWING (HNB)' located in Hondori, Hiroshima City (1-5-10 Otemachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City), will release a barrel-aged beer 'Rinki Ohen ~Wheat Wine~', aged in barrels from 'SAKURAO BREWERY & DISTILLERY (SAKURAO)' (1-12-1 Sakurao, Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture), on Thursday, April 2, 2026. This is also a product of the 'HIROSHIMA BARREL RELAY PROJECT', the first collaborative project among craft liquor makers in Hiroshima that started in 2022. It is a craft beer made using the 'barrel-aged' method, where beer is aged in wooden barrels. This project is an initiative where five craft alcohol makers in Hiroshima Prefecture collaborate across liquor genres, inheriting whisky and wine barrels in a relay format to create new products that utilize their respective individualities. Please definitely pay attention to the initiatives of Hiroshima's alcohol makers.

<1> Overview of 'Rinki Ohen ~Wheat Wine~'

The style of this beer is Wheat Wine (Alcohol content: 8%). After aging SAKURAO's Sakurao single malt whisky, HNB's wheat wine was placed into a barrel that had contained red wine from the winery 'VINOBLE VINEYARD' in Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and a barrel that had aged peated whisky. After aging for about 19 months, the two barrels were blended together to create this barrel-aged wheat wine. The series name 'Rinki Ohen' (a play on words for adapting to circumstances, incorporating 'cherry blossoms' and 'change') was named to signify HNB maturing the period and transforming the beer in 'SAKURAO' barrels. The soft wheat characteristics of the original wheat wine...