What to do when the weather's cold

I love beer. Nothing is better than a cold beer on a warm day. But sometimes the days are not warm. In Tahara, the days in January and February are cold and windy thanks to the wind patterns across the Atsumi Penninsula. Thawing out after a bike ride home from school, it is not a beer I reach for, it is Blanton's Single Barrel.

I am from Kentucky and I love bourbon as much as I love beer. Sometimes, in the Winter, I love bourbon more than beer. A bottle of Blanton's in Kentucky puts me back $45 to $50. But in Japan, I can get it for roughly $25 at a Nagoya area international store located outside of Nags station and Kanayama station. I can also get the 80 proof Black for the same price, the Silver for $30, the Gold for $45, and the Barrel Proof for $41. Only the regular Blanton's is available in America. DH told me that he saw the regular for $20 and the gold for $35 at a liquor store in Hiroshima. Unbelivable.

What I am really saying to all you ex-pats out there is this: You are in Japan! This country gets the BEST bourbon! High grade bourbon in America is middle grade in Japan! It is dirt cheap, check the prices.