Step into the soft-glow kaleidoscope of São Paulo’s Japas Cervejaria, where beer is not simply brewed—it is braided. Braided from threads of Japanese heritage, Brazilian vibrance, and radical feminine intuition. Founded by three women of Nipo-Brazilian descent who reappropriated the word “Japas” with righteous elegance, this brewery weaves ancestral memory with modern moxie, crafting beers that sip like origin stories told under paper lanterns. Each pour is a page from a family scroll rewritten with rice, jasmine, citrus, and wit—equal parts reverent and rebellious.
Today’s flight is your boarding pass. Begin with Sawā Strawberry, a strawberry sour that pirouettes between tart and tender. Follow with Matsurika, jasmine-laced serenity in Bohemian pilsner form, and Yuzu Nama Biiru, a citrus-splashed rice lager with the calm precision of a Zen garden on tap. Then there’s Oishii, a gingered witbier that dances like a spice market dreamscape. And finally, Neko IPA—a citrusy, fortune-slinging housecat of a beer with a grapefruit grin and a pine-needled tail. One sip and you’re not in Tacoma anymore. You’re somewhere better. You’re in Japas.
Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Japas Cervejaria
Japas Sawā Strawberry
4.7% ABV
Sawā Strawberry is the tart-tongued haiku of the Japas lineup, a quietly rebellious sour that slides in like a summer breeze through a strawberry field that also happens to know jiu-jitsu. Tt’s delightfully restrained, letting fresh berry brightness do the soft-shoe tap across your palate before a graceful bow of acidity and a whisper of funk remind you this is still a sour—just one wearing kimono sleeves and a sly grin.
Japas Matsurika
5% ABV
Behold Matsurika, the jasmine-whispering Bohemian pilsner from the fearless fem-visionaries at Japas Cervejaria, a São Paulo brewery where rice lager meets ancestral memory and the sacred tea petals of Japan. This is no mere pilsner—it’s a perfumed telegram from your most elegant past life, brewed with floral restraint and monk-like clarity. Expect a lemon-zest flicker, a ghost of white tea, and a finish so crisp it might politely bow before leaving your palate entirely refreshed and slightly bewildered. If beer could meditate, this would be its mantra.
Japas Yuzu Nama Biiru
4.7% ABV
Yuzu Nama Biiru is a Japanese rice lager that doesn’t just refresh—it resets. It clears the inbox of your senses, rinses your palate in cold spring water, and zests the moment with bright flashes of yuzu, like lemon’s more poetic cousin. Japas Cervejaria brews this one with rice for clean precision and hop whispers of Sorachi Ace and Lemondrop, lending it the texture of silk sheets and the vibe of a Kyoto back alley kissed by citrus mist. Light, crisp, and unbothered by your stress—this beer is a pause button with excellent taste.
Japas Oishii
4.7% ABV
Oishii is what happens when a traditional Belgian witbier gets swept into a slow-motion martial arts film scored by ginger, citrus, and pure summer light. Japas Cervejaria once again laces tradition with elegance, lobbing candied ginger and orange peel like tiny flavor grenades into your palate’s sleepy courtyard. It’s zippy, it’s whispery, it’s the soft rustle of silk kimono sleeves brushing a spice market stall somewhere between Brussels and Kyoto. At 4.7 percent, it drinks like a daydream, finishing crisp, clean, and just weird enough to keep your chakras intrigued.
Japas Neko
5.7% ABV
Meet Neko IPA, the hoppy housecat of fortune who pads softly across your palate with grapefruit paws and pine-needle whiskers, flicking her tail in that “just one more sip” kind of way. Brewed by Japas Cervejaria with a wink toward Japan’s beckoning lucky feline, Neko doesn’t pounce—it prowls with grace. This is citrus-forward IPA minimalism: no lupulin overload, no tropical tantrum, just a well-tempered balance of bright bitterness and malt-kissed serenity. It’s the beer equivalent of finding a $20 bill in your pocket, then realizing it’s actually a crisp new passport stamp.
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