Asahi Chocolat Cocktail
Recently I blogged about the Sapporo/Royce Chocolate beer for Valentines day and there seems to be a spate of other chocolate based beers and cocktails released this year in Japan.
Recently I found this Chocolat Cocktail from Asahi which is a Rum and Chocolate based cocktail… Continue reading
They have this thing they do in Japan after New Years, called Lucky Bags.
Basically, shops, etc make up bags full of stuff which they sell for anything from ￥1000-￥100,000 or more. I read somewhere that this year one firm was selling 2 bags for over a millions that included a robot that they would build that would look just like the purchaser!
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I found these in a folder on my computer the other day, can’t remember where I found them, somewhere on the old internet…
I love the style of them.
Japanese Asahi Beer Advert
Old Japanese Kirin Beer Advert
This question bugged me for quite a while when I first discovered that Japan has 3 categories of beer, and I don’t mean lager, beer, bitter, etc.
Japanese Happoshu
Thankfully, an article in the Daily Yomiuri yesterday cleared it up for me.
The reason Japan has 3 different categories of beer is… Continue reading
One of the great things about Asahi having so many fingers in so many pies here in Japan (they seem to make and sell just about everything), you get a little present from them when you subscribe to their newspaper, Asahi Shinbun for a year.
So I was very pleased last Sunday when this was delivered to my door…
Free Asahi Beer
