/a/ - Animu & Mango

My country only sells Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin Ichiban. I'd like to try Orion or the other Japanese brews.

With this and dagashi kashi combined, I'm willingly watching half an hour of animated food and drink commercials a week.

Plus, I don't even drink anymore, so maybe I shouldn't be tempting myself by watching a show with cute girls shilling me the liquid jew.

>>780794

Is it possible to order sake from Japan and just have it sent to your country?

>>780817

>Is it possible to order sake from Japan and just have it sent to your country?

Of course, you can import almost anything from Japan.

You probably can get the mainstream Sake brands from Amazon.

For the more niche stuff you need to find specialized stores, and probably work with a import company.

Wakako sake was okay, then the show about the lightweight last season was meh, this is just a beer commercial, the drinking girls meme is getting stale.

>>780794

>brew my own sake

I hope you have plenty of rice to ferment. If you mean making beer in general that is completely different and does not need rice. It is also very easy to do at home. Stores sell kits to make your own beer. Depending on country its legal as long as you do not sell it.

>>780831

Amazon is not an option due to prices. Finding an importer, and a good one at that, is the only reasonable thing to do. That way you can get a case of Hakutsuru for like $11/750ml bottle. At that price you can actually drink it casually.

>>780831

No, I mean sake. It is usually much harder to find Japanese sake than Japanese beer (Made in USA Gekkeikan doesn't count), so that's why I brought it up.

>>780841

>Finding an importer

Do local booze stores import their products? I wouldn't know where else to start in finding a good importer.

>>780842

Some specialized ones do, or have good connections with the importers at least. Try those fancy liquor stores with a huge selection of products.

>I wouldn't know where else to start in finding a good importer.

The internet. Now that I'm looking into it, there's quite a few that ship from Japan. Actually seem to have found a decent one that handles the EU. Might have to leave a couple hundred euroshekles with them.

>>780842

What >>780848 says is correct. And much cheaper than using Amazon or a import company.

I heard that for import companies Noppin is good, and there's a old guide by a 2hu fan.

https://thepoltergeistmansion.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/ordering-doujin-cds-and-other-things/

(some of the links are dead).

But when using an import company it should be clear, that you pay an additional fee for the middle man.

Which can get quite expensive.

The advantage is that you can get almost anything that delivers in Japan imported.

>>780841

Don't forget to factor in 20+% breakage if you're importing glass bottles from across the globe in unpadded 9 liter cases.

They really weren't pretending that this was anything but a 12 minute beer commercial. At least the blue here is better than the blue in the ramen commercial.

>cute girls getting shit-faced

Are they into other cute girls when they're shitfaced?

high impact violence

If they are doing things like highballs I wonder if they are going to advertise those takoyaki bars in tokyo.

>>780966

Nao-chan loved to hug and touch Michiru, it wouldn't surprise me if she tried something.

>>780780

FAKH YU

I hate beer.

>>781291

Don't drink piss beer, m8.

I enjoyed it. It was objectively meritless, but it made me feel better about being a drunk.

>>780848

Nah, it's the reverse, anon. I get all my asian liquor from the stores owned by Koreans or Vietnamese. For some reason my main supplier is the only one in town who sells sake that didn't come from California.

>>786607

Supposedly drinking a beer before weight lifting can improve your lifts. Your veins expand and the increase in bloodflow gives you a good boost.

>>786685

And greatly increase the chance of injury I'd imagine.

>>786687

Just don't fuck up anon, it's easy.

>>789497

>I have never heard of a can that changes shape after opening it

It's a pretty simple concept since you just over-pressure or under-pressure the can so it caves in/out upon opening it. The issue is such cans tend to have very thin shells like the aluminum cans they put energy drinks in, so they puncture extremely easily (and the contents tend to spray everywhere when opened due to the pressure difference).

>>789547

>very thin shells

I bet those cans cannot work in vending machines with fairly violent dispensing systems too.

>>789497

I really want to try all the flavors of this, is it a beer? Do they export it? I can't handle bitter things but if its the canned equivalent fizzy grapefruit juice with vodka I'm 100% on board.

>>789614

From its description it sounds similar to a carbonated wine cooler. It barely has any alcohol in it at 5-7% so it probably isn't bitter, it would probably just taste bubbly and tangy.

>>780778

>Cute girls getting shit-faced.

I don't like the direction anime is going.

>>792280

"in the end", ie when you are old and the other dykes don't want you anymore and your parents are getting impatient about you producing a heir.

>>792301

They're likely not. The point of the diamond cut isn't to make them thinner, it's to make them stronger.

That being said, it's absolutely a marketing gimmick because commercial beverage containers don't need to be strong. That's why every other commercial beverage comes in a regular can.

>>786687

If you're such a manlet that a single beer gets you that fucked up, you shouldn't be lifting unsupervisied anyway.

>>792301

Why does that head look so out of place now?

>>795402

Make sure the beer is very cold. It can be enjoyed right out of the refrigerator, but if you drink slowly it will warm up and become more bitter. I recommend leaving it in the freezer for half an hour before drinking. Since you like cider, try getting a pack of Redds (or the equivalent in your country). It's very light and sweet.

>>795402

I'm not a very big beer drinker so most of the beers in my country taste the same to me. The taste is just something I got used to after drinking and knowing what it is going to taste like.

>>795901

I wish i had a drunk Chika Anzai of my own to bully.

>>795402

>tasting like piss halfway through

You're drinking it too slowly. As it warms up, the alcohol and hop bitterness becomes apparent. Try pouring only half the bottle at a time and leaving the rest in the refrigerator. The carbonation won't be ruined by being left opened for that short time. Alternatively, get a small ice chest, because that is still the absolute ideal way to keep beer prior to drinking, and direct contact with the ice will extend the time you have to finish it before it gets warm.

If you like cider, consider some varieties of beer brewed with different fruits. Some smaller breweries have very nice seasonal brews with blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and pumpkin, but it takes some experimentation to find ones you like. Or stick with different types of cider, though most are too sweet for my taste. Stella Artois Cidre and Strongbow are good, fairly dry ciders.

>>795402

I mostly agree with >>796452

If you like stronger tasting shit, try a porter or a stout, preferably one with hints of chocolate, milk, or coffee mixed in. If you want something a little closer to your cider, try a cool white belgium with an orange slice squeezed in- you'll hardly tell you're drinking beer. Just avoid anything with the word "IPA" written on the bottle as those will guaranteed always taste like piss.

>>796521

>Just avoid anything with the word "IPA" written on the bottle as those will guaranteed always taste like piss.

I don't know how those things got popular, a torrent of new IPAs seemed to just appear out of the ether over the last few years.

>Coffee rum episode

Alcohol that goes with milk like the coffee rum and those cream based liquors are the best since you can drink a lot in the form of milkshakes and such. I went through a litre of some cream based stuff in a day just by constantly mixing it with milk. Drinking at 6am felt great.

>>792599

Well I guess that answers

>>780966

>>798651

When I watch it at night I do, though it is cute how lightweight they all are.

>>792599

SEXY

>>805231

I think the worst is when a store drops all the stuff you like and you're forced to order it in a bulk order.

>>805231

A relative of mine had me try some local IPAs that he bought and when he asked me what I thought of each of them I couldn't tell the difference between any of them, despite advertising about all the fancy things they added they all tasted the same.

>>805575

No surprise. Trust me I actually like to drink those Inb4 hipster They have a nice aftertaste that's bittersweet to me which I like.

>>805633

There's nothing wrong with liking bitter things and IPAs, anon.

There is something wrong with the IPA takeover of my liquor stores when I live in microbrewery central. There is something wrong with faggot liquor store clerks recommending me IPAs when I tell them I either want something pilsner-light or porter-to-darker.

>>805655

>Why is Nao so perfect?

Her drunk persona is cute and doesn't want to rape you like a certain wedding planner in this show.

>>805917

This. Comparatively, Blue Moon is not that bad compared to the really cheap end beers.

>>806280

>It's absolutely fucking disgusting

Well yeah it's Korean.

I like Leffe Blond.

>>807264

It's good mixed into rice when you're cooking it, but I can really only drink it on the rocks.

>>807357

Pretty good, but I'd go for scotch instead of bourbon. Glen Levitt if I wanted single malt and Balantine's if I wanted mix. I have a bottle of Balantine's right now, in fact.

>>807311

Try it with a meal to see how you like it.

>>807365

What should I cook?

>>807357

>Baltika

>With English letters

How the fuck did you find that? We only carry that with slavic runes in 'Murrica.

>Event horizon

I've had it once. IT's not bad.

>>807385

Fish is always a good choice.

>>807400

Got the Baltika from Southern Spirits in South Carolina. The last time I had Baltika, it was meh. Decided to give this one a shot, though. I'm waiting for it to be cold before trying.

>>807318

I've never thought of using sake like that to cook rice with, I've only used a cheap bottle of gekkeikan to cook stir-fry.

>>807426

>The last time I had Baltika, it was meh.

That's because it's the Slav version of imported Tecate or Heineken. It's probably gonna still be meh, was just surprised because with all the ethnic Russians around here, we only get the legit slavshit with slav runes on them.

>>805917

Even at that price point there are better options. Celis White is ostensibly the same style, similar price, but doesn't taste like piss. Blue Moon's only virtue is its wide availability, but odds are that today you can find a local/regional witbier in any part of America that's just as cheap and not garbage.

>>805663

The worst part about the IPA fad is that liquor stores don't understand you're meant to drink them fresh and end up with year-old IPA on the shelves. That's fine for belgians or dark beer but anything hoppy is a completely different beer at that point. I'll drink IPAs if I go to a brewery but I've almost entirely stopped buying them in stores because of this bullshit.

>>809674

Maybe it sounds that way, but it's really just that I fucking hate Blue Moon. I don't have the same problems with the big light lagers, they genuinely are about as good as you can do for the price, and I'd take any of them over Blue Moon.

>>806193

>I'm drinking every day. This cannot be healthy.

It can always be worse, anon. ;_;

Guys, I don't know how to keep going without this anime.

It's all the best things in life crammed into a nice 15 minute package.

Cute girls. Good food. Drinks.

Just living life the fullest you can, even if nothing changes, this is the height of culture.

>>809649

Former bartender here. If a cocktail takes more than liquor + mixer + splash/twist, it doesn't get made unless you tip notoriously well or it comes in a frozen mix you just throw in a slushie-type machine, e.g. mudslide.

>>809681

I'm not a fan of standard Blue Moon. Some years back I had the Blue Moon Grand Cru, which was surprisingly fantastic. Of course, it was a limited edition and you can't get it anymore. Also, it was $8 a bottle.

>>780778

Is it only a show about girls getting drunk? Are there any sexual activities involved? I might pick it up if that's the case.

>>818845

>Wanting sexual harassment in your comfy drunk shows when that's the common thing for pretty much every anime drunk scene

Faggot.

>>812734

Been drinking it. It's pretty alright.

Looking forward to a beer, bourbon, and barbecue festival coming up. Going to bring a notepad and write up every drink I like.