Asahi Breweries
Asahi Breweries traces its origins to the Osaka Beer Company, founded in 1889, which launched the Asahi Beer brand in 1892 from its brewery in Suita. Today the company is based in Tokyo and brews at six plants across Japan, from Hokkaido to Hakata. Its best-known product, Super Dry, arrived in 1987 and started the Japanese dry beer category. Asahi Breweries belongs to the Asahi Group. In late September 2025 a cyberattack halted production at all plants; shipments resumed step by step until April 2026.
Beers by Asahi Breweries
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Asahi Breweries brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 11 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Asahi Super Dry
Their beers place in the Top 40% of the catalogue on average, across 9 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Asahi Breweries
Asahi Breweries traces its origins to the Osaka Beer Company, founded in 1889, which launched the Asahi Beer brand in 1892 from its brewery in Suita. Today the company is based in Tokyo and brews at six plants across Japan, from Hokkaido to Hakata. Its best-known product, Super Dry, arrived in 1987 and started the Japanese dry beer category. Asahi Breweries belongs to the Asahi Group. In late September 2025 a cyberattack halted production at all plants; shipments resumed step by step until April 2026.
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