Something to add to your list of things to not bother trying is this. Bilk. What do you get when you mix beer and milk? You don`t want to know...
This beer was brewed by one of the larger brewing companies, Suntory. It was actually pretty good. This is the "English" one. There was also a Canadian one but i didn`t have my camera with me at the time. When i went back to get more, they were gone. Ghost beer? Nope. Just seasonal brews in small batches. Too bad they were in cans or i could`ve kept the labels for my beer label collection (i have over a hundred now). I enjoy the seasonal brews here in Japan. They like to rotate through foods and drinks as the seasons change. Keeps things interesting. The autumn beers are usually best, i find, but i`m not actually basing that on anything.
I may have posted this picture before. Goya-Dry. Goya is an extremely bitter vegetable grown mostly in Okinawa. some people like the bitter taste but i find it unfit for human consumption. However, always game to try new things, i bought this beer and gave it a go. It was delicious! The bitter but subtle aftertaste of the Goya went very well with the refreshing taste of the brew. Best drunk cold. Helios, the brewer also makes a couple of other odd beers but i have yet to find them in stores around here.
Matcha Draft. Another strange combination is green tea and beer. But again, like the goya beer, the tastes blended well. The matcha was slight and elegant so as not to overpower. This brewer from Nagoya (called "Land Beer" i think) also makes a "Miso Lager." Yup, that`s Miso as in miso soup you get at most Japanese restaurants. And once again, the taste is surprisingly alright, though i prefer the Matcha Draft.
This one i know i posted before. The beer is awful but the way it was served to me in a Mexican restaurant in Kyoto was too weird not to include here. It looks like a can of tequila. Which probably would have tasted better!
Ulala living the dream.
ian, that's a lot of beer!!!
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