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Related posts on MoIppai]]> With Valentine’s Day soon approaching, which in Japan means women buying chocolate for men, (thanks to some genius marketing by a chocolate manufacturer many years ago), the shelves are being stacked with chocolate, chocolate recipes, Royce/Sapporo chocolate beer and this year I found shelves of alcohol filled chocolates.

Sake, Whiskey, Beer and Shochu Chocolate

Sake, Whiskey, Beer and Shochu Chocolate

Sake Chocolate in Loft, Osaka

Sake Chocolate in Loft, Osaka

There are the usual whiskey and brandy filled chocolates that have been around for ages, but also some new and interesting additions.
Shochu chocolate, sake chocolate, beer bonbons, and continuing the Whiskey Highball craze in Japan, whiskey highball chocolates too.
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Wine Chocolates by the till.
Well obviously I had to give them a try (and they were only ¥32 each),
and have A Luxurious Aftertaste.
Wine Chocolate

Wine Chocolate


They weren’t bad actually, with a soft jelly like centre, and according to the ingredients list, actually contained wine.

I wonder if they have sake or beer flavours?


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Minoh Brewery Imperial Stout

Minoh Brewery Imperial Stout



I blogged before about the recent release of
Chcolate Beers in Japan for Valentines Day and in, I guess, true Japanese style my wife bought me some more for this years Valentines.


There’s the Imperial Stout from Minoh Brewery, which actually has a pink heart on the label and “St. Valentines Day” on the label, as well as Doppo Brewery’s “White Chocolate” beer from Okayama.
It’s a very drinkable fruit beer (I didn’t get much chccolatey taste on it), and to be honest it was more like a flat, weak orangeade than a beer – but don’t let that put you off!
It’s definitely worth trying.


I also tried another stout from Minoh Brewery,
the Minoh Beer Stout, which technically doesn’t have anything to do with the recent Valentines beers, but is being sold alongside them so why not.

This stout recently won the Worlds Best Stout award at the World Beer Awards in the UK – although to be honest, I didn’t like it much, but I’m not much of a stout drinker anyway.


There’s a very good blog post about Minoh Brewery at Beerinjapan.com – here


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Asahi Chocolat Cocktail

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.

I bought it initially for my wife as she likes sweet cocktails, but she didn’t want it, so after leaving it in the fridge for a couple of weeks I finally took the plunge and tried it (the fridge was otherwise bare).

Very surprised and impressed!

Basically a chocolate milkshake with a hint of rum on the aftertaste (although rum is the main ingredient according to the can, the cocktail is only 4% and hardly tastes of rum at all).

Haven’t seen any other chocolate cocktails but am still trying to find the other chocolate beers , Chocolate No. 7, Chocolate Doppu, and White Chocolate from Doppu.


The full review is here: Asahi Chocolat Cocktail


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Related posts on MoIppai]]> It’s Valentines Day soon, and in Japan they do Valentines Day a little different to the West (let’s face it, in Japan they do a lot of things different to the west!).

Here it’s kind of reversed.

Instead of boyfriends, husbands, etc buying flowers, jewellery or lingerie for their respective partners, in Japan it’s the girls job to make or buy chocolates to give to the man in their life (or just the men at work in some cases).

Chocolat Brewery

Chocolat Brewery


It’s perhaps because of this, or just very good timing, that Sapporo brewery has teamed up with Hokkaido based chocolate company, “Royce” for a creation called “Chocolate Brewery“.


It’s an Happoshu (low malt beer) made from roasted malt and cacao, it has “the characteristic of aromatic chocolate flavour and bitter taste“.


I have to say it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, it looks like a big class of coke on pouring due to it’s dark black/brown colour and creamy head, and the odd bitter chocolatey aftertaste does bring you back for more.

Although by the end of the glass, I’d had enough!
Nice to try, but won’t buy again I think.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, on March 14th “White Day“, the boys buy the girls presents or white chocolate in return. So everyone’s happy in the end.

I’ve reviewed the beer here.


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