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ANTCICADA, which explores the attractiveness of insect-eating, and Tono Brewing Company, which is located in Tono city (Iwate prefecture, Tohoku region in northern Japan), developed craft beer “Cricket Dark Ale” which uses crickets as its ingredient.

From March 15 to 18, the company announced that it would be available only at Shibuya Parco “COMINGSOON”.

The newly developed cricket beer is a dark ale manufactured using domestically produced crickets. A carefully roasted lignite and roasted malt were added to wort to bring out the aroma and taste of the cricket to the utmost. Taiyo Green Energy’s barley was used as a raw material.

It is a cricket that is grown on vegetables and other foods from the company’s food loss in an optimal environment with thorough control of room temperature and humidity at a farm in Fukushima Prefecture (in Tohoku region of northern Japan). Even after harvesting, the food can be eaten safely because it has been carefully cleaned and heat-treated.

The beer is predominantly coffee, cocoa, or chamomile-like flavor, and when it is included in the mouth, it has a bitter taste, a cook, a caramel flavor, and a good match with bitter choco, coffee nuts, dry fruit, and the like.

It is said that beer made from crickets is the first product in the world (*) in product.
In addition, when the beer meal remaining from beer making was given to the crickets, it was nice to eat, and the harvested crickets tasted well. Therefore, the company is also working on the development of a recycling-based beer using crickets fed with beer meal.

In an effort to convey the attractiveness of insects as foodstuffs, ANTCICADA has been developing products such as “cricket ramen” made with two kinds of crickets, and the provision of coarse foodstuffs made with insects.

The brewery and the Tono brewery, which had long focused on the possibility of insects as raw materials, sympathized. The company said it has led to this joint development.

(*) Survey by the Company

Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/02/20/cricket/