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This week has been a pretty quiet one in the beer world, and yet has seen a bit of action. The BeerAdvocate servers crashed last week and haven't got back on track 100% just yet, leaving thousands of RAT's with nothing to do! The boys promise a quick fix. I will not call the boys who started BeerAdvocate beer nerds, since they did in fact create a website that makes them money and lets them drink beer. I got a tweet a few minutes ago from one of the BeerAdvocate guys saying:
Jason: Quaffing a quick glass of PBR. While closing out Beeradvocate Magazine Issue 30. #beer
I hope to be drinking a few PBR's next week as well Jason!
The big news coming from the Tokyo boys has been the Ushi Tora's new opening and addition of more taps. Since I know nothing about Tokyo, read what Chuwy has to say about it here.
The Big 4 have been relatively quiet these days. After Asahi released The Master, we haven't heard too much from them. Many thought that an all malt version of the Super Dry was sure to come after Kirin switched the Ichiban Shibori to all malt, but when it comes to Super Dry--as the public is concerned, if it ain't broke--don't fix it.
I bought a Yebisu on Tuesday since it was on sale and I wanted to make sure that I tasted as bad as I remembered. It did.
Last weekend we drank the bif bottle of Sankt Gallen Father's Day Edition that I bought for my girlfriend's old man. It was good beer, nothing great--but he loved it. He must have said, "This is delicious beer!" ten times! My girlfriend's mom drank about two sips, got tipsy and asked me when we were getting married. No more beer for her.
I bought the huge 1.8L bottle at Okadaya in Nagoya. While Nate and I were trying to decide on what to buy, a couple came in and got one of the bottles. (They were hidden in the back.) I asked how many more the store had, and since they only had one--I snatched it up. It was a good choice. I recommend drinking it with friends though, it's hard to drink 1.8L before it gets hot--though I am sure it could be done.
Have a lovely hot, humid, wet Thursday. I am!
1 comments:
I've always found the Sankt Gallen special beers to be . . . uninspiring. I'm not sure what they're doing now, but in the past, they would take one of their regular beers, add some spices, and call it a Christmas beer. Or something similar. Maybe now they're actually brewing some of their seasonals as separate beers, but to just take a regular beer and add something at packaging seems kind of like cheating to me.
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