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December 12 2009

Beer and Coke – Not a Great Cocktail Idea

Beer and Coke Cocktail

Beer and Coke Cocktail

I went to a local Izakaya last night (an Izakaya is kind of a cross between a tapas bar and a pub, where you buy lots of small plates of – usually – cheap food and wash it down with drinks. Japanese people tend not “just” drink, they nearly always eat food at the same time), and discovered something unusual on the drinks menu that I’d never seen before or even contemplated.

A cocktail of Beer and Coke. Or Beer Coke as they called it.

Why oh why would you want to mix these two drinks?? It reminded me of when I used to work at Heathrow airport in London, and there were a lot of Indian people working there who used to mix Coke and Milk with their lunches.
A bizarre combination.

Anyway, obviously I had to try it, as maybe I’d been missing out on some magic all these years…no.

To be honest it wasn’t as bad as I imagined on the first sip, but by the end of the glass, I was feeling just a little bit sick.

Switched back to beer and sake after that – a good combination!

Sake Bottle

Sake Bottle


(apologies for the bad photo but I only had my phone on me at the time, and I can never get a decent photo with that thing).


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3 Comments »

  1. According to me there are so many girls who like to drink the mix of coke with beer. They may not find it good to have a glass of beer.

    Comment by Michelle Grow — December 28, 2009 @ 9:08 pm

  2. Fair enough Michelle. It wasn’t to my taste though.
    I’ve since found out this “cocktail” is actually quite common in Izakaya’s in Japan.

    Comment by MoIppai — January 7, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

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