I know this is a big departure from my normal content. It's rainy season and I was away for a bit as well, so I wanted to try this. Let me know if you also enjoyed this and feel free to request tasting or reviews of any Japanese food or drinks. If I can get Pat on board again, it's bound to be hilarious.
My favourite beers are pilsners so I enjoyed this (and I'd hoped to be pretentious about Sapporo being my favourite but I'm good at pretentious pronunciation so I'll settle for that!). But I'm still curious about a Japanese craft beer tasting!
Soooo good! You and Pat are hilarious! It was great to see something different from you and of course see you cut loose! I would love to see more like this exploring different kinds of beer. BRING ON THE BEER! Fabulous job on the vlog! Loved it! GO EGYPT! LOL 🍺🍺
Hi and thanks, GoNorth Japan for sharing. OMG, that's fascinating...Are you, two big fans of IPA, Lager, and Stout??? Hoppy not hoppy? Do you mind me asking the ABV, alcohol by volume for each beer? Fascinating content. Great work. 🍺🍻🍻
Can't speak for Pat (he seems to have eclectic beer taste) - but I LOVE IPA and only drink later or stout occasionally. The ABV for most of those in the video would be 5.5% - that's the standard for those beers in Japan.
This was a fun deviation from your usual videos! If you do more like this, I'd love to see craft beers (or wine or spirits!) that's more local, such as from small businesses that you can only get in Japan and maybe are unique in some way. The same way I enjoy learning about Japan's unique landscapes, I also love learning about other unique aspects like food and drink and culture. ☺
Loved the video, watching this a little bit buzzed was a real trip when Pat started completely Deadpan lore-bending. Would love to see more Japanese alcohol reviews. I've been working through trying as many Chu-hi as I can, but over here in the UK they're SO expensive, some are nearly 800JPY a can, so it's an eyewateringly expensive prospect. Keep up the great work, glad I've found your channel through Chris Broad!
Holy crap at last somebody gave Super Dry the roast it has always deserved and it was from none other than you Quinlan! I've been in my entire adult life frustrated it's stayed as the absolute staple and somehow friends of mine, whose palates I usually trust otherwise, seem to have genuinely liked it or have been lenient to that coloured bathwater. Or have Asahi been bribing all of them? Asahi surely has deeper pockets than me so it could be possible. My rivalry with Super Dry must be some kind of fate because both me and them are born on the same year in Japan. Admittedly they've achieved a lot more since then, being the bestselling beer for more than 30 consecutive years, while I am just plain old nobody. Joking aside I'm so glad to know my taste in beer is quite similar to yours. Your verdicts on each brand felt like totally spot on for me. I wonder why Sapporo appears to have earned more recognition overseas as THE Japanese beer compared to other brands, were they particularly good at marketing strategy or something?
Glad to help! To be honest I've never been a fan, so I wasn't surprised that I ended up having that impression drinking it blind. Glad to hear that our opinions on beer line up! I have no idea why Sapporo got so popular abroad. (I actually didn't know that it was so popular abroad..) If I hear anything I'll let you know!
Pat's rating scale, what can you say, it keeps you on your toes! Please, please, please do some reviews of good craft brews in Japan. Quinlan, you owe it to your home state (maybe do brat reviews, too)! This is much more chill that to see you risking your life straddling a mountain ridge (not that the scenery isn't breathtaking). Mix it up! Cheers!
Man I love Yebisu, but can't get it here in NYC anymore :( Luckily it seems Suntory Premium is finally available at a few select places, will have to try that soon.
That was hilarious! On a scale of Mountain Trails to the Alleys behind 7-Eleven I give it a high Family Mart. Top job! As a beer gotcha for those of us that love a good Japanese brew but can't get back in to Japan yet, be aware that some of the Japanese brands that we can get locally can be made here in Australia under licence or imported from other parts of Asia like Vietnam. Your Asahi or Sapporo are most likely (at least here in Oz) to be made here or in Vietnam (unless your local Bottle-O or Japanese grocer has the proper imported version - for Asahi or Sapporo though it doesn't matter that much 😁) Great job. Loved it. Cheers! 🍻
@@GoNorthJapan It does. It isn't just Japanese beers though. Usually the larger well known foreign brands can be made here under licence. Interestingly Asahi now owns CUB, out biggest brewery. They make Fosters for example.
I tend to like the more serious comments. I like tasting videos in general --so this is a fine new direction. I would like to see travel videos where you explore the history of a place.
Japanese beers, outside of some the craft beers they have been doing, similar to American adjunct beers. Taste the same, but for me I prefer Sapporo, because it is very clean and price point, $17.99 for a case
Any of the suggestions sound good but I think trying a few real craft beers would be good. You're really close to Iwatekura beer and I've "met" the guys from Black Tide on a Zoom call. Shiroyama from Kagoshima is really good too, but with a 2.5 barrel system they probably don't get distributed very far. Even though I don't drink Chuhai much, I'd be happy to watch a video on it.
Gonna nitpick a little about the definition of Happoshu without googling (except I did google this 7 years ago in Japan). It is beer by the wide definition, but the amount of barley malt is under a certain percentage, and for that reason has lower VAT. I like it, just as I like rye malt in craft beers and wheat malt in weissbier.
I'll give this a 2.5/2.5 :) I'd definitely be interested in more Japanese craft beer content (tastings, visiting breweries/bars, food pairings, etc.), especially if there's an opportunity to weave it in with the other topics you're interested in.
I anticipate....many comments such as "fizzy lager". Since I only visit Japan when I am there I do not chase craft beers. I find Yebisu and Kirin Ichiban Shibori just fine to accommodate a variety of foods. Now I DO somewhat obsess about local sake choices which can be both well priced and delicious in the less traveled areas of Japan.
Yeah- I LOVE sake. In fact I even studied and got this qualification as a "certified sake sommelier." It's like wine though in terms of there being thousands of different types, though less regions at least. That would be fun.
@@GoNorthJapan And you have the Nanbu Sake Guild tradition in your area. It's fascinating stuff from so many angles, but too nerdy to appeal to the broad YT masses that's for sure.
I don't like beer but this video was fun! I'm getting an insight in all the beers that my mom (who is Japanese) likes to drink haha! I feel more educated now😆
So is Pat a doctor or an Egyptologist? It was funny to see you guys try those beers I love the tastings, you could try food or even Ramen tastings also if I ever get there I’ll give you a proper beer flight!
IPAs are my favorite, too! Will see about making it happen! To be honest, already recorded a video where we drank a number of German beers and a couple of IPAs as well, but we talked so much I've been struggling with editing it down to something watchable. I've still got like 55 minutes sitting there so I'm dragging my feet on editing... (Did this one with a German friend, Pat stayed off camera.)
@@GoNorthJapan ouh nice! love german beers! Love me some Double IPAs as well though idk how much of those are out in Japan currently. I know some people in a Beer group I am in have people buy beer form a brewery near me (Tree House Brewery, in Massachusetts) and send it to them, one of them lives in morioka i think too hahah. And Im actually going to a polish american club today to try a bunch of polish beers! I heard they are very good!
I'm always here for some boozy, beery content! I know you're a Wisconsin native, Quinlan, so just letting you know I enjoyed some Spotted Cow up up at a lakehouse in northern WI for the 4th of July weekend. If I could send em over to Japan, I would!
Great way to start my day down here in Australia. You two didn’t really inspire me to partake in any of this fine liquor (or dirty water some may say) but at least I know the truth about giraffes, the pyramids and how to win friends with proper Japanese pronunciation.
you are tough critics lol XD i mostly like japanese beer, its very similar to german beer so i feel right at home. Sadly you don't get many types here and even if you do since they are so similar i usually refuse to buy them for twice the price of the local beer lol XD but i do enjoy trying through anything new i can find when I'm over in japan. Whichis to saay, not enough different ones :(
Q, this was great content, you both were interesting and entertaining . . . the only problem was you kept saying pilsner when all the beers you were tasting were lagers . . .
Peter!!! Great to hear from you! Hope all is well. Miss your enormous presence at game nights!! But Pilsners are a type of lager... and the barrier is thin. From my googling they are mostly pilsners I had thought. I guess it depends on the source. Premium Malts is definitely a pilsner, but yeah, the others are mostly labeled as lagers.. anyway, pretty much the same..? Pilsners are just slightly hoppier lagers anyway.
I actually quite liked Sapporo, though Ao Oni is vastly superior, and I thought Asahi was at least a competent try compared to the affronts to beer culture I've seen in other countries before. Now as someone forced to abstain from alcohol for medical reasons, I'd appreciate a primer on the non/mock-alcoholic options available in Japan - just in case they ever let tourists back into the country on anything but a soulless corporate package tour in the future. Not necessary just beer... I think I even saw "Sake" when I googled the topic before.
I've actually brainwashed myself into really enjoying Suntory's "All-Free" non-alcoholic beer. In order to drink less I have those pretty much every day, much to the amusement of friends. (If I drink that around Pat, for example, he relentlessly mocks me... lol) I wouldn't mind doing a taste-test review of those, but would be harder to find someone to do it with me, as most people I know simply say they're all horrible, whereas I definitely think some are better than others. Also yeah- I LOVE Ao Oni. That's my favorite beer in terms of what's available at a reasonable price at the local grocery store.
Got a sad news for you, non-alcoholic beers here taste absolutely horrific except for a select few and there's a very good reason behind that. Unlike in other countries where they make mock beers by first brewing real beers and then removing the alcohol content, some Japanese tax laws on alcohol prohibit this method, leading to manufacturers having to come up with concocting vaguely beer-adjacent flavours from barley extracts, water, sugar, various additives, food colouring and stuff. And they unsurprisingly fail so bad. Those that fare slightly better than others use a decent amount of hops to compensate for the lack of basically everything that makes beer tastes like a beer, whereas most of the so-called alcohol-free beers here don't even do that. We do have far superior German imports like Burgbräu and Veritasbräu for reasonable prices but they are less widely available as ordinary supermarkets tend not to have them.
@@GoNorthJapan Well, the bonus point of forcing your (possibly soon to be ex-) friends to drink the stuff with you is they'll likely be miserable doing so, which may make for good content. Pat would likely out-snark the Wendy's Twitter on such an occasion, I'd imagine. Or just serve them Hoppy-style with added Shochu? @Nomadicmonkey Well, non-alcoholic "beer" is kinda dodgy everywhere, on account of most beers being mostly alcohol delivery systems. Take away the alcohol and you're left with mostly Sadness. Japan's alcohol tax avoidance market is properly wild, though.
i have no issue with departing from your normal content but you friend is not my cup tea altho all the other comments seems to enjoy him so you do you boo boo
Oh, really sorry to hear that! I guess we all have different tastes and senses of humor. Don't worry, the channel isn't fundamentally changing or anything, just adding variety in here when I can during the rainy season.
yeah... This is a channel I wont be subscribing to, that is four mins of my life that I want back.. You guys should stick to what you do best.. I've watched concrete cure, and that was more exciting..
I know this is a big departure from my normal content. It's rainy season and I was away for a bit as well, so I wanted to try this. Let me know if you also enjoyed this and feel free to request tasting or reviews of any Japanese food or drinks. If I can get Pat on board again, it's bound to be hilarious.
My favourite beers are pilsners so I enjoyed this (and I'd hoped to be pretentious about Sapporo being my favourite but I'm good at pretentious pronunciation so I'll settle for that!). But I'm still curious about a Japanese craft beer tasting!
I would also like to see craft beer reviews. This was a fun departure!
Try more beers on your future videos!!
Love the video!!
P.S. it’s funny how Pat’s scoring changes every drink 😂
Pat is hilarious. Hope I can bribe into more appearances. Definitely will do more!
Laughing so hard after the intro, I just had to pause and tell you! 😂
Great! The desired effect!
I think Yebisu was my favourite when I taste tested beers myself after a visit to the supermarket in Nikko back then 😊
Nice! This wasn't about what I like, so much as just giving impressions of the very standard ones from the local supermarket.
Soooo good! You and Pat are hilarious! It was great to see something different from you and of course see you cut loose! I would love to see more like this exploring different kinds of beer. BRING ON THE BEER! Fabulous job on the vlog! Loved it! GO EGYPT! LOL 🍺🍺
So glad that you liked it! I'll definitely do more like this!
"I'm the type that drinks with a showel"
oh just wounderful!
Great stuff and makes a nice change, would love to see cider!
Glad that you liked it! Sure- cider is fair game!
More Japanese beer videos please!! This was so fun to watch!
So glad you liked it! Will do!
Great video! as a beer enthusiast and beer judge, Id love to see more videos like this! great job!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Doing different videos out like this might finally give your channel the recognition it deserves! 😁
Fingers crossed!
I‘m dying!😂 This was so funny! More of those videos please.
So glad you guys liked it! We'll do more!
Hi and thanks, GoNorth Japan for sharing. OMG, that's fascinating...Are you, two big fans of IPA, Lager, and Stout??? Hoppy not hoppy? Do you mind me asking the ABV, alcohol by volume for each beer? Fascinating content. Great work. 🍺🍻🍻
Can't speak for Pat (he seems to have eclectic beer taste) - but I LOVE IPA and only drink later or stout occasionally. The ABV for most of those in the video would be 5.5% - that's the standard for those beers in Japan.
This is certainly very new! But also very nice to watch! More of this in the future maybe 🤔
Hope you like it!
This was a fun deviation from your usual videos! If you do more like this, I'd love to see craft beers (or wine or spirits!) that's more local, such as from small businesses that you can only get in Japan and maybe are unique in some way. The same way I enjoy learning about Japan's unique landscapes, I also love learning about other unique aspects like food and drink and culture. ☺
Great idea, thanks! And glad you liked this!
What a change of pace - and what a hoot!
Glad that you enjoyed it!
Loved the video, watching this a little bit buzzed was a real trip when Pat started completely Deadpan lore-bending. Would love to see more Japanese alcohol reviews. I've been working through trying as many Chu-hi as I can, but over here in the UK they're SO expensive, some are nearly 800JPY a can, so it's an eyewateringly expensive prospect. Keep up the great work, glad I've found your channel through Chris Broad!
Wow! That's like quadruple (or more) what you'd pay here! Sure- chu-hi would be interesting as there is such a variety! And yeah, Pat is hilarious.
Holy crap at last somebody gave Super Dry the roast it has always deserved and it was from none other than you Quinlan! I've been in my entire adult life frustrated it's stayed as the absolute staple and somehow friends of mine, whose palates I usually trust otherwise, seem to have genuinely liked it or have been lenient to that coloured bathwater. Or have Asahi been bribing all of them? Asahi surely has deeper pockets than me so it could be possible. My rivalry with Super Dry must be some kind of fate because both me and them are born on the same year in Japan. Admittedly they've achieved a lot more since then, being the bestselling beer for more than 30 consecutive years, while I am just plain old nobody.
Joking aside I'm so glad to know my taste in beer is quite similar to yours. Your verdicts on each brand felt like totally spot on for me. I wonder why Sapporo appears to have earned more recognition overseas as THE Japanese beer compared to other brands, were they particularly good at marketing strategy or something?
Glad to help! To be honest I've never been a fan, so I wasn't surprised that I ended up having that impression drinking it blind.
Glad to hear that our opinions on beer line up! I have no idea why Sapporo got so popular abroad. (I actually didn't know that it was so popular abroad..) If I hear anything I'll let you know!
Pat's rating scale, what can you say, it keeps you on your toes! Please, please, please do some reviews of good craft brews in Japan. Quinlan, you owe it to your home state (maybe do brat reviews, too)! This is much more chill that to see you risking your life straddling a mountain ridge (not that the scenery isn't breathtaking). Mix it up! Cheers!
Glad you liked it! Was a lot of fun! Yeah- I'd love to share some of my favorite Japanese craft beers! I'll make that happen!
Man I love Yebisu, but can't get it here in NYC anymore :( Luckily it seems Suntory Premium is finally available at a few select places, will have to try that soon.
I quite like Pat's take on some of these! I found it enjoyable
Fun change of pace. Would love to see more!
I usually don't think super dry but for summer I drink that or kirin lager.
Kirin Lager isn't bad.
Loved it! Your friend is hilarious 🤭 More content like this and more visits from Pat, please! Best regards from Rio ♥️
ok this was pretty hilarious.
That was hilarious! On a scale of Mountain Trails to the Alleys behind 7-Eleven I give it a high Family Mart. Top job!
As a beer gotcha for those of us that love a good Japanese brew but can't get back in to Japan yet, be aware that some of the Japanese brands that we can get locally can be made here in Australia under licence or imported from other parts of Asia like Vietnam. Your Asahi or Sapporo are most likely (at least here in Oz) to be made here or in Vietnam (unless your local Bottle-O or Japanese grocer has the proper imported version - for Asahi or Sapporo though it doesn't matter that much 😁)
Great job. Loved it. Cheers! 🍻
Glad that you enjoyed it!! Yeah- I guess it would say on the can where it is brewed?
@@GoNorthJapan It does. It isn't just Japanese beers though. Usually the larger well known foreign brands can be made here under licence. Interestingly Asahi now owns CUB, out biggest brewery. They make Fosters for example.
Off the rails before the first taste even, I love it 😆
What a nice duo. More videos would be great even a back alley 7/11 one :)
That sounds like fun!
The Sapporo Black is really good, but very hard to come by here in Minnesota!
You guys are hilarious! This was fun! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love that you drink your beer out of a Latte Macchiato glass... 😂
Ahahaha, it's a multi-purpose glass. Works for hot and cold drinks.
I know. I just usually drink my coffee out if it, so first I was a wee bit irritated. 😂
This was chaotic and I loved every second of it
Danke!
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate it!
I tend to like the more serious comments. I like tasting videos in general --so this is a fine new direction.
I would like to see travel videos where you explore the history of a place.
Got it! Thanks for letting me know!
Japanese beers, outside of some the craft beers they have been doing, similar to American adjunct beers. Taste the same, but for me I prefer Sapporo, because it is very clean and price point, $17.99 for a case
If you do a catch-all dinking episode I'd be interested in opinions on hoppy ホッピー with and without shochu and if japan has any irish or red ale.
Could do! That might work as a livestream as well!
Any of the suggestions sound good but I think trying a few real craft beers would be good. You're really close to Iwatekura beer and I've "met" the guys from Black Tide on a Zoom call. Shiroyama from Kagoshima is really good too, but with a 2.5 barrel system they probably don't get distributed very far.
Even though I don't drink Chuhai much, I'd be happy to watch a video on it.
I love Black Tide!! I've been down to their taproom a couple times and wish there was a place to buy it in Morioka.
This was hilarious thank you both 🤣
Gonna nitpick a little about the definition of Happoshu without googling (except I did google this 7 years ago in Japan).
It is beer by the wide definition, but the amount of barley malt is under a certain percentage, and for that reason has lower VAT. I like it, just as I like rye malt in craft beers and wheat malt in weissbier.
In terms of mass produced beers, it definitely just translates to a lighter, "less than beer" feeling in my mind though. But yeah.
I'll give this a 2.5/2.5 :) I'd definitely be interested in more Japanese craft beer content (tastings, visiting breweries/bars, food pairings, etc.), especially if there's an opportunity to weave it in with the other topics you're interested in.
I just had the most amazing triple IPA from Uchu brewing last night.. so good! I'll see about making a video for good craft beer!
I just wish I could buy Yebisu in canada. It surprised me and is one of my favourite beers now.
Definitely- that's my favorite of this bunch!
@@GoNorthJapan It really is the best. I've had it in Hawaii, but I've never seen it anywhere else outside Japan.
I anticipate....many comments such as "fizzy lager". Since I only visit Japan when I am there I do not chase craft beers. I find Yebisu and Kirin Ichiban Shibori just fine to accommodate a variety of foods. Now I DO somewhat obsess about local sake choices which can be both well priced and delicious in the less traveled areas of Japan.
Yeah- I LOVE sake. In fact I even studied and got this qualification as a "certified sake sommelier." It's like wine though in terms of there being thousands of different types, though less regions at least. That would be fun.
@@GoNorthJapan And you have the Nanbu Sake Guild tradition in your area. It's fascinating stuff from so many angles, but too nerdy to appeal to the broad YT masses that's for sure.
Bro I legit thought your thumbnail was micheal myers 🤣 randy baby!
So, I’d rate this video a 6’ish on a scale of zero to three 😆😆😆! Too funny !!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Was a lot of fun!
I'd love a craft beer tasting in Morioka. I am much more likely to have those than cheaper mass-produced cans 😅
Can do!
If I make it to Japan next April, I fully intend to drag my friend to Morioka with me to climb Mt. Iwate and have craft beer 😄
I don't like beer but this video was fun! I'm getting an insight in all the beers that my mom (who is Japanese) likes to drink haha! I feel more educated now😆
Haha, glad that you were able to enjoy it!
So is Pat a doctor or an Egyptologist? It was funny to see you guys try those beers I love the tastings, you could try food or even Ramen tastings also if I ever get there I’ll give you a proper beer flight!
A proper beer flight sounds great!
Would love to see some IPAs and stuff! as those are my favorite haha
IPAs are my favorite, too! Will see about making it happen!
To be honest, already recorded a video where we drank a number of German beers and a couple of IPAs as well, but we talked so much I've been struggling with editing it down to something watchable. I've still got like 55 minutes sitting there so I'm dragging my feet on editing... (Did this one with a German friend, Pat stayed off camera.)
@@GoNorthJapan ouh nice! love german beers! Love me some Double IPAs as well though idk how much of those are out in Japan currently. I know some people in a Beer group I am in have people buy beer form a brewery near me (Tree House Brewery, in Massachusetts) and send it to them, one of them lives in morioka i think too hahah. And Im actually going to a polish american club today to try a bunch of polish beers! I heard they are very good!
I'm always here for some boozy, beery content! I know you're a Wisconsin native, Quinlan, so just letting you know I enjoyed some Spotted Cow up up at a lakehouse in northern WI for the 4th of July weekend. If I could send em over to Japan, I would!
Damn, sounds great! I miss good Wisconsin beer! Near impossible to find in Japan.
I going to 70 amd been drinking beers from all over
Great way to start my day down here in Australia. You two didn’t really inspire me to partake in any of this fine liquor (or dirty water some may say) but at least I know the truth about giraffes, the pyramids and how to win friends with proper Japanese pronunciation.
And that's really the important thing, right?
Yes please do Chuhai !
Got it!
In the states I've had sopporo (so so), asahi (🤮), and kirin 😁🤟🍻
I think I need to go on a date with the dude in the bandanna 💁🏻♀️
Ooh, do the Chu Hai
Can do!
fyi kirin in this case means an east asian mythical beast nor a giraffe
you are tough critics lol XD
i mostly like japanese beer, its very similar to german beer so i feel right at home. Sadly you don't get many types here and even if you do since they are so similar i usually refuse to buy them for twice the price of the local beer lol XD but i do enjoy trying through anything new i can find when I'm over in japan. Whichis to saay, not enough different ones :(
Hahaha, better to enjoy more than to be picky.. but we can't always control our tastes...
It’s not a crayon id use 😂😂
Love ur hairstyle
Find the quality of Asahi can be hit or miss. Sometimes they hit perfect, other...
Q, this was great content, you both were interesting and entertaining . . . the only problem was you kept saying pilsner when all the beers you were tasting were lagers . . .
Peter!!! Great to hear from you! Hope all is well. Miss your enormous presence at game nights!!
But Pilsners are a type of lager... and the barrier is thin. From my googling they are mostly pilsners I had thought. I guess it depends on the source. Premium Malts is definitely a pilsner, but yeah, the others are mostly labeled as lagers.. anyway, pretty much the same..? Pilsners are just slightly hoppier lagers anyway.
I actually quite liked Sapporo, though Ao Oni is vastly superior, and I thought Asahi was at least a competent try compared to the affronts to beer culture I've seen in other countries before. Now as someone forced to abstain from alcohol for medical reasons, I'd appreciate a primer on the non/mock-alcoholic options available in Japan - just in case they ever let tourists back into the country on anything but a soulless corporate package tour in the future. Not necessary just beer... I think I even saw "Sake" when I googled the topic before.
I've actually brainwashed myself into really enjoying Suntory's "All-Free" non-alcoholic beer. In order to drink less I have those pretty much every day, much to the amusement of friends. (If I drink that around Pat, for example, he relentlessly mocks me... lol) I wouldn't mind doing a taste-test review of those, but would be harder to find someone to do it with me, as most people I know simply say they're all horrible, whereas I definitely think some are better than others.
Also yeah- I LOVE Ao Oni. That's my favorite beer in terms of what's available at a reasonable price at the local grocery store.
Got a sad news for you, non-alcoholic beers here taste absolutely horrific except for a select few and there's a very good reason behind that. Unlike in other countries where they make mock beers by first brewing real beers and then removing the alcohol content, some Japanese tax laws on alcohol prohibit this method, leading to manufacturers having to come up with concocting vaguely beer-adjacent flavours from barley extracts, water, sugar, various additives, food colouring and stuff. And they unsurprisingly fail so bad. Those that fare slightly better than others use a decent amount of hops to compensate for the lack of basically everything that makes beer tastes like a beer, whereas most of the so-called alcohol-free beers here don't even do that. We do have far superior German imports like Burgbräu and Veritasbräu for reasonable prices but they are less widely available as ordinary supermarkets tend not to have them.
@@GoNorthJapan Well, the bonus point of forcing your (possibly soon to be ex-) friends to drink the stuff with you is they'll likely be miserable doing so, which may make for good content. Pat would likely out-snark the Wendy's Twitter on such an occasion, I'd imagine. Or just serve them Hoppy-style with added Shochu?
@Nomadicmonkey Well, non-alcoholic "beer" is kinda dodgy everywhere, on account of most beers being mostly alcohol delivery systems. Take away the alcohol and you're left with mostly Sadness. Japan's alcohol tax avoidance market is properly wild, though.
On occasion I'll have some Japanese plum wine. Never had any major interest in any alcohol beverages.
Love Premium Malts
私が好きなのは長野の「銀河高原ビール」スーパーなどにあると思いますが、少し高価で、でも美味しいです。ﾎﾟﾋﾟｭﾗｰでﾒｼﾞｬｰなエビス(材料が良い※正統派)の今年限定発売の「白缶」がクセが無く(苦味も無く)スッキリしてて(雑味も無い)好きですが、試しに最近「銀河高原ビール」長野の会社、何種類か買って飲みましたが、「青鬼」はスパイシーでキレが有り雑味も無く味もシッカリしてて美味しかったし、「銀河高原ビール」もエビスの白缶に似た、クセが無くｽｯｷﾘ、雑味も無く、ほのかに「甘い」良いビールです。あと二種類は明日と明後日のむ予定です(￣ー￣)この長野のビールお薦めですよ。原料もコーン・スターチとか入ってない、ｴﾋﾞｽや一番搾り、プレモル並みの純粋なビールです。
銀河高原ビールはね、最近まで岩手のビールでした。長野の会社に購入されて、長野に移動しました。僕もよく飲んでいました。
ヤッホーブルーイングの青鬼大好きです！それはすごく美味しくて、高くないですね！よく飲みます！
i have no issue with departing from your normal content but you friend is not my cup tea altho all the other comments seems to enjoy him so you do you boo boo
Oh, really sorry to hear that! I guess we all have different tastes and senses of humor. Don't worry, the channel isn't fundamentally changing or anything, just adding variety in here when I can during the rainy season.
Complex flavor of... Bad flavors
Pat is hilarious
I like your hair and your weird friend
My weird friend is great.
Best part of having Acces to US military bases. Cheap American beers the Japanese will trade for their good stuff.
Are you guys scientists by trade?
Well, I believe Pat was originally a Physics major in college, but he ended up changing it.
7 is 6-ish
Thanks!!
Different people different tastes on.. cannot based on their taste and comments
It seems that the most advertised famous beers are mostly terrible.
Glad I'm not alone thinking Budweiser, Asahi and more are rubbish.
You are most certainly not alone!
Budweiser is not a Japanese beer
I would argue that it's not beer at all...
yeah... This is a channel I wont be subscribing to, that is four mins of my life that I want back.. You guys should stick to what you do best.. I've watched concrete cure, and that was more exciting..
Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!
no ASAHI?