DH told me to go to 7-11 t osee if they had the new Kirin Ichiban Shiburi. He said that the liquor store in Toei had one can or bottle (not sure) and that it belonged to the owner and that he (DH) could not buy it. Oh, how they fight over light lager up in the hills. Long story short, 7-11 did not have the new Kirin, but they did have Yebisu Silk.This is the least palette offending Yebisu made to date. The can says it contains wheat malt, which is where the 'smooth' comes from. What this wheat malt does is make the beer taste decent. Yes, I won't ever drink this beer again, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't ever drink this beer again. Subtle difference.
If this beer cost 150 yen, I would drink it but I would hold my hand so that nobody could see the word 'Yebisu'. This beer cost me 249 yen, which is OK today because I rode my bike to school and saved 200 yen roudtrip on the Tahara Gurin Bus. 249 yen? I can buy a Yona Yona for 252 yen at Atsumi foods, which is what I would rather be drinking. If you like Yebisu for some reason, this white can is better than the gold, green, and really bad red can they have released. The only Yebisu that is better is the black when drunk out of a glass bottle, and that is different style of beer altogether.DH, who is beer starved up in the mountains, likes to live vicariously through me. I was going to wait until tomorrow to open the Silk but he insisted that I do it tonight, and that I get him on videochat before I pop the top. We took some screen shots of it because real country boys just love all dem fancy new doodads and gadgets.
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Yes it's true. There was ONE new Kirin in the sake fridge and I could not buy it. The owner was keeping it for himself. So, I bought a bottle of sake and drank the whole thing, and called my girlfriend. She thinks I am an idiot, it's a wonder why she still is with me. Yes I know, I am cool.
Yeah, those 100ml cup sakes are awesome. ^-^
Perhaps you can fill an old bottle of Kirin stout with soy sauce and 'do the switch'.
Question: why would someone drink something that came out of a worm's butt? You even had the word ass in the title.
Check out the slanted head on this beer.
May pop down to my convenie and see if I can't pour this worm excretion with a slanted head, too...
Uh... last post wasn't meant to sound nasty.
Good work on the new beer heads up, boys.
Hey Nate,
Aren't you just a little too hard on Yebisu? sure, it isn't near as good as Yona-Yona which costs ¥10 more, but it is a hell of a lot better than, well, Carlsberg, Heineken, Becks, Bud, Miller, Asahi Super Dry, Labatts, Molson, Peroni, Jupilier, Kronenbourg, Kirin, Fosters, and almost all other big industrial piss lagers out there, no?
Haven't tried the ass silk yet, but there's one in the frig. I'm dying to hear your take on the grande Biere night...
Mark
Mark
Yeah I tried the Ass Silk on Saturday night after playing my bass through 11 hours of rehearsals. Was disappointed. Tasted like water. Not the kind of thing I was looking forward to.
Barnes? 11 hours straight??? Sounds like a workout!
My problem with Yebisu is this...It sucks. Just because a beer is 100% malt doesn't make it 'premium beer'. Brewers of Yebisu products need to drink a Premium Malts and get a clue as to what makes a decent 'premium' Japanese lager.
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