Booze Baths
Another peculiar, Japanese, alcohol-related phenomenon is bathing in booze-scented novelty hot springs. The Japanese almost universally love “onsen” (natural hot springs) and travel hours out of their...
View ArticleAll Aboard the Booze Train!
I’m always told not to quaff cans of beer on the trains in Japan, but Japan Probe reports that folk in Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture, are warming up for the end of year festivities by glugging beer and...
View ArticleSpace Beer Has Landed
The crazy astro-Beer that I wrote about in May, brewed by Sapporo from barley descended from crops kept on the international space station, is now ready to be drunk by a select bunch of lucky punters....
View ArticleFish Beer? Oh God, No!
I’ve heard of drinking like a fish, but this is ridiculous. A microbrewery in Konan City in Kochi, Japan has recently celebrated their first 10 years in business by concocting “Tosa Kuroshio Karyudo...
View ArticleRaunchy Retro Beer Ads from Japan
To get you in the mood for the summer beach season, here are some 80s beer commercials featuring sand, curvaceous ladies in bikinis, lecherous middle-aged men, and lashings of beer.
View ArticleLand of the Rising Sunburn and Suntory Whiskey
Monday was “Ocean Day” in Japan, which means that the rainy season is officially over, and the summer has begun! Also on Monday it started raining for the first time in weeks and hasn’t stopped since....
View ArticleMatrix-Style Sapporo Ads
Mari at “Watashi To Tokyo” has posted some groovy Sapporo commericals from a few years ago, featuring amazingly agile and dextrous beer-drinkers, leaping about in Matrix-style slo-mo. But when I’ve...
View ArticleJapan’s Best/Worst Tattoo?
Last night I met a Japanese guy with “More Beer” tattooed across his beer-belly. He was proudly displaying it in a live-house for all to see. Apparently he uses it to order beer in foreign countries!...
View ArticleStrong Off
I’ve just tried Asahi’s brand new “beer”, the oddly-named “Strong Off”, which sounds like a sexual act performed by an arm-wrestling champion. Strong Off doesn’t taste all that wonderful (like bitter,...
View ArticleANA’s New In-Flight Draft-Beer Service
The airline ANA are doing their best to make flying less tedious- as of July 20th, draft beer will be available on some of their domestic flights! As Japan Probe has discovered, apparently they are...
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