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Asahi Beer abolishes “image girl” spokesmodel position, ending practice at big four brewers
- Casey Baseel
Jul 26, 2022 - Tweet
Position was suspended during the pandemic, and it won’t be coming back.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Asahi Beer • Asahi Super Dry • beautiful women • beer • COK)
We investigate the half-priced beer at Sushiro that everyone is angry about
- Master Blaster
Jul 26, 2022
Righteous indignation or an overreaction?
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • Kaitenzushi • restaurants • SNJO • Suntory Premium Malt's • sushi • Sushiro)
Personal information of everyone in Amagasaki City lost by person who passed out drunk on street
- Master Blaster
Jun 25, 2022
Remember, don’t drink and carry the personal info everyone in the city.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Amagasaki • drinking • government • Hyogo • mistake • personal information leak • sleep • USB stick)
Tequila comes to Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo with exclusive collaboration drinks
- Shannon
May 31, 2022
Espresso shots aren’t the only kind of shot at Starbucks now.
- Japan
- (alcohol • cocktails • coffee • drinks • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • tequila)
You’re not supposed to drink this special sake from Japan【Non taste-test】
- Casey Baseel
May 17, 2022
Suppin doesn’t have a place at the table, but it’s definitely got a spot in our home now.
Muji is selling sake, and it’ll make drinkers feel good in more ways than one
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2022
Delicious sake that gives a small town a helping hand is definitely something worth raising a cup to/of.
Tokyo Sushi for US 8 cents a piece (as long as you also want a beer) makes us believe in miracles
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2022
Oedo Sushi makes us an offer we can’t, and would never want to, refuse.
- Japan
- (alcohol • awesome • beer • cheap • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • Oedo Sushi • restaurants • SNJO • sushi)
Why is it so hard to find hot sake in convenience stores in Japan?
- Master Blaster
Apr 10, 2022
Some like it hot, but can’t find it easily.
- Japan
- (alcohol • convenience stores • hineka • hot sake • kanzake • Kanzake Bottle • Nihonsakari • nihonshu • sake • science)
Japan’s supply of Zima runs dry, online resellers take over and jack up prices
- Master Blaster
Mar 27, 2022
Zomething expenzive.
Shiso and cherry blossom flavored gin now on sale in Japan
- Master Blaster
Mar 24, 2022
Gin doesn’t get much more Japanese than this.
- Japan
- (alcohol • cherry blossoms • COK • drinks • gin • Koshu Nirasaki Gin • shiso)
Alcoholic sake butter appears in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Mar 22, 2022
I can’t believe it’s not Nihonshu?
We turn this non-alcoholic lemon chu-hai into a mixer, find the perfect alcohol for it
- Dale Roll
Mar 7, 2022
And shochu wasn’t it!
Gamer sake Gaming Rainbow coming this spring, cans illustrated by past and present greats
- Master Blaster
Feb 24, 2022
Proving once again that there’s nothing you can’t make gaming and/or gamer.
- Japan
- (alcohol • art • drinks • gaming • Gaming Rainbow • illustration • Mika Pikazo • SakeBottler • Street Fighter • Street Fighter II • Tsuchida Sake Brewery • video games)
Many young Japanese people aren’t drinking sake these days
- Katie Pask
Feb 22, 2022
The Japanese drink is losing its popularity with youth, according to survey.
Sake brand Dassai increases workers’ starting pay by over 40 percent, pledges to double salaries
- Casey Baseel
Feb 20, 2022
Japan’s best-loved sake brewer gives people another reason to love them.
Whisky worship: Kyoto craftsmen make prayer beads out of Japanese whisky barrels
- Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2022
Oak is reborn as juzu after half-century helping to make Japanese whisky.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Buddhism • COK • drinks • Japanese whisky • juzu • prayer beads • religion • Whiskey • whisky)
Exquisite Fist of the North Star shochu set on sale for limited time
- Master Blaster
Feb 17, 2022
Shochu and ceramics so good, your head will explode.
- Japan
- (224porcelain • alcohol • anime • Fist of the North Star • Kobu Sake Brewery • manga • Raoh • shochu • Takuya Wada • Tetsuo Hara)
Suntory whiskey chocolates now exist in Japan thanks to aroma chocolatier
- Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2022
Whiskey aficionados are always happy to have distiller Suntory’s premium varieties in their glass, and now you can have them in your chocolate too.
- Japan
- (alcohol • chocolate • COK • drinks • food • Hibiki • Suntory • sweets • Whiskey • whisky • Yamazaki)
Japan’s best-selling beer is changing its recipe for the first time in 35 years
- Casey Baseel
Jan 17, 2022
Will a new brewing process make Asahi Super Dry even more super?
- Japan
- (alcohol • Asahi Breweries • Asahi Super Dry • beer • COK • drinks)
Japan’s beloved Zima discontinued after sales hurt by COVID-19
- Master Blaster
Jan 6, 2022
Zomething zad.
- Japan
- (alcohol • business • Coors • coronavirus • COVID-19 • drinks • Molson Coors • Zima)
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