NPOs Hojin Juminno Chikara, Amanokawa Jikkoiinkai and Takatoricho Ikku Jichikai have taken the Guinness World Record for largest aluminum can sculpture with their beer-can replica of Nara’s Takatori Castle.

Construction began in January 2012 and was completed on August 28, 2012.

To read more and see a video from FNN, as well as beer information for Japan, see Beering in Mind‘s converge here. Kanpai!