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Smartphone-abstinence cocktail created by Japanese restaurant to put focus on friends over phones
- Casey Baseel
May 27, 2023 - Tweet
Restaurant came up with idea after poll showed majority of people are bothered by dining companions staring at their phones during meals.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beautiful • clever • cocktails • COK • cool • drinks • food • phones • Smartphones • yakiniku)
We try the Jack & Coke canned cocktail to see if it’s any better than mixing one yourself
- Dale Roll
Apr 15, 2023
We love the convenience of a canned cocktail, but does it taste as good?
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned cocktail • Coca-Cola • cocktails • Coke • Jack and Coke • Jack Daniel’s • whisky)
Sparkling sake in a can seeks to solve a problem that sometimes keeps sake off the dinner table
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2023
Nihonsakari Japan Soda wants to give sake more opportunities to shine.
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned drinks • drinks • nihonshu • sake • sparkling sake)
Giant 1,431-square meter arcade and bar opening in downtown Tokyo from Bandai Namco
- Casey Baseel
Mar 17, 2023
Namco Tokyo pours drinks, serves Pacman parfaits, and plays game music into the night in Shinjuku.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Arcades • Bandai • Bandai Namco • bars • crane games • drinks • game centers • Kabukicho • Namco • Namco Tokyo • Pacman • parfaits • shinjuku • sweets • video games)
Coca-Cola Japan releasing canned Jack Daniel’s cocktails
- Casey Baseel
Mar 10, 2023
A “Jack Coke” with no mixing required.
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned cocktails • Coca-Cola • Coca-Cola Japan • COK • drinks • Jack and Coke • Jack Daniel’s • Whiskey • whisky)
It’s now legal to buy beer and cigarettes at self-checkout registers in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Feb 6, 2023
New rule for convenience stores goes into effect on day of announcement, but there’s some equipment shops and shoppers need first.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • convenience stores • My Number Card • self-checkout • society • tobacco)
Suntory’s prized Hakushu whisky is going into a can for the Premium Highball Hakushu
- Casey Baseel
Feb 4, 2023
Canned cocktail celebrates Suntory’s 100 years in the whisky-making business.
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned cocktails • cocktails • drinks • Hakushu • Japanese whisky • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky)
Premium Japanese whisky is now in chocolate form with Suntory Yamazaki and Hibiki nama chocolate
- Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2023
Kamakura chocolatier teams up with distiller as Japan enters its chocolate-crazy season.
- Japan
- (alcohol • chocolate • COK • drinks • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • nama chocolate • Suntory • Suntory Hibiki • Suntory Yamazaki • sweets • Whiskey • whisky)
How drunk can Awamori Jelly infused with liquor from Okinawa make us?
- Dale Roll
Nov 23, 2022
When in Okinawa, drink (or eat!) awamori!
Tsundere beer now on sale in Japan, but it’s not like she brewed it for you or anything, baka!
- Casey Baseel
Nov 19, 2022
A beer with two sides to its flavor for the anime archetype with two sides to her personality.
Osaka bus driver flunked alcohol test after eating steamed bread
- Master Blaster
Nov 6, 2022
Friends don’t let friends eat bread and drive a bus.
- Japan
- (alcohol • breathalyzer • bus driver • buses • COK • crazy • food • mushipan • Osaka • science • steamed bread • Takatsuki • transportation • weird)
English-speaking-only bar opens in Osaka and Tokyo, yellow cards for those who don’t follow rules
- Oona McGee
Sep 28, 2022
Bar Sick! is only open to English speakers.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bars • beer • COK • drinks • English conversation • English education • English education in Japan • english language • English language education • language learning • learning English • Nishi Azabu • Osaka • Tokyo)
Beer, Suntory whiskey for under a buck and all-you-can eat ice cream! Joy at Tokyo’s Karaoke One
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2022
This hidden-gem karaoke chain is perfect for your inner child and adult-beverage-loving grown-up.
Japanese hotel gives you a beer tap in your room, 10 liters of craft beer to drink for free
- Casey Baseel
Sep 6, 2022
That works out to 17-plus pints per night.
- Japan
- (alcohol • awesome • beer • cool • craft beer • crazy • drinks • hotels • Shizuoka • travel • West Coast Brewing)
Can you tell the difference between real beer and Japan’s happoshu quasi-beer?【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2022
Masks on and bottoms up for a blind taste test experiment.
- Japan
- (alcohol • COK • drinks • experiment • haposhu • Kirin • Kirin Beer • Kirin Ichibanshibori • low-malt beer • SNJO • taste test)
Japanese government worried young adults aren’t drinking enough alcohol
- Master Blaster
Aug 17, 2022
This calls for a contest!
- Japan
- (alcohol • contests • culture • drinking • marketing • National Tax Agency • NTA • Sake Viva • taxes • young adults)
Chowing down on dirt-cheap gyoza and insane portions at Fukuoka’s Gyoza Supermarket Pub
- Krista Rogers
Aug 12, 2022
Despite gyoza taking the center stage at this restaurant, something else on the menu provided the biggest shock of all.
- Japan
- (alcohol • cheap • COK • drinks • food • Fukuoka • gyoza • izakaya • lemon sour • Masanuki Sunakoma • pubs • restaurants • SNJO)
Japan has a special beer brewed to go great with dried ramen noodle snacking
- Casey Baseel
Aug 7, 2022
Oh, baby, Babeer is here!
First-ever carbon-neutral sake coming in October
- Master Blaster
Jul 31, 2022
Sip some sustainable sake soon.
- Japan
- (alcohol • climate change • environment • Fujuku • Fujuku Junmaishu Eco Zero • Kobe • Kobe Shushinkan • nihonshu • sake • sake brewing • sustainability)
Sweet mochi beer? Yamanashi sweets maker teams up with craft brewer for Kuromitsu Black
- Casey Baseel
Jul 27, 2022
Far Yeast Brewing takes inspiration from Shingen Mochi for a unique new craft beer.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • COK • craft beer • drinks • Far Yeast Brewing • haruka takagi • Kikyoya • mochi • shingen mochi • SNJO • sweets • taste test • weird • Yamanashi)
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