«Beer brewed with rice – is this possible?! : Kirin Beer K. K. – company history». www.mitsubishi-edm.de. Mitsubishi Electric EDM. Besøkt 7. august 2020. «When the Norwegian Johan Martinius Thoresen came via America to Japan in the middle of the 19th century, he brought the recipe for a genuine European beer with him to the Far East. Under the name of William Copeland, he first opened a dairy and a short while later the country’s first brewery of note. After several attempts to introduce the beverage, he finally gathered financially potent helpers who established the Kirin brand in 1888.»
