Beer 2013

[Alexander L 80]

or Jimmer

[griller 9]

I like that one too.

 

so many beers, so little time

[cal 6]

This afternoon a friend brought me round a case of bottles of Kirin Classic.

 

It made me very happy!

[brit-gob 9]

Ii na.

 

Bet it tastes better too. Free beer.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

whoa!! This was on the 3rd page!!

 

another good beer from Seiyu, Golden Ale. A refreshing, fruity ale that is perfect on a hot summers day

 

[Alexander L 80]

that looks like a supermarket beer on constant special.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Regardless.....tastes damn nice

[Nisoko 6]

So it does

 

[Alexander L 80]

to form ones beer gut on below par beer seems such a waste.

[69 5]

Anyone here with an impressive beer gut then?

[Tubby Beaver 209]

I'm a functional fatty....got a gut but can happily play sports and generally exercise n run around....there's no darts player look, more a well loved and cherish belly

[Alexander L 80]

not quite flop over the belt yet, more like curved daikon.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

not beer, but an oishiiiiiii quite mezurashii drink round these parts, cider!! AEON has some bottles of nice cider drinks in just now. I had the Brut Cider du Bretagne.......very nice it was in a glass chock full of ice. mmmm

[Alexander L 80]

that's alcopop

[Tubby Beaver 209]

You're an alcopop

[RobBright 35]

that's alcopop

 

Whatever does the job.

 

Cider is a quintessential summer drink and is sorely missed. I'm a little surprised, considering that apples are such a big thing over here, that cider hasn't been embraced. Ume-shu is always popular, as is flavoured chu-hi but cider would be great.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

isn't there a large AEON store in Futamatagawa? Check it out, it looks like a wine bottle. A lot posher than the 3ltr plastic bottle of White Lightning that I used to sport as an underager round the park.....tastes a tad better too

[RobBright 35]

isn't there a large AEON store in Futamatagawa? Check it out, it looks like a wine bottle. A lot posher than the 3ltr plastic bottle of White Lightning that I used to sport as an underager round the park.....tastes a tad better too

 

There is a huge Seiyu store but no AEON. White lightning - brings back some hazy memories of my first drinking of "cider".

[Tubby Beaver 209]

ah Ok....maybe its Yamato or one of those stops round there

[muikabochi 208]

I have some bad memories of cider. As lots of students probably do!

The worst one was a very strong vingegary one that was...... warm. Yikes that was not nice.

[Tubby Beaver 209]

yeah....took me years to stomach the taste again. Magners really re-invented it in the non-cider making areas of Britain. They made it trendy again and the flavour of their cider is a million times better than the crap most people used to drink. I suppose real cider aficionados may also say that Magners and the like is crap as well......but I like it on a hot summer's day

[snowdude 44]

While shopping in my super last night walked past some beer called bear beer from Denmark.

Had never seen it before must be some promotion .

It was in the meat section.

 

Anyway got the stronger one of the two 7.1 % or something like that.

And it was rather good actually.

Wi// have try another one tonight just to make sure.

 

[Alexander L 80]

Two stations down the line was a cider pub serving 10% alc scrumpy. We used to only plan trips there when there was an entourage of sensible people. <- very hard to come by at Uni.

 

I still can't remember how horrendous the end parts of each visit to this place I made was.

[NoFakie 45]

not beer, but an oishiiiiiii quite mezurashii drink round these parts, cider!! AEON has some bottles of nice cider drinks in just now. I had the Brut Cider du Bretagne.......very nice it was in a glass chock full of ice. mmmm

 

Jusco in Hakuba used to do the same one. I used to drink a lot of it. Its less alcoholic than beer, which isn't a bad thing for a summer drink.

I think the pear ones are so-so, and the berry flavoured ones (e.g. Ikea's) are terrible, but standard dry cider is a nice drink.

Elderflower flavoured beer (Badger Golden Champion, a Scottish one called Birds and Bees, etc.) is my summer favourite though.

[brit-gob 9]

I like those 'new' ciders that seem to be so popular now. The pear ones are delish.