Asahi Super Dry to get new low-alcohol spinoff

No thank you. If I wish to drink Asahi, I’d like to get a buzz out of it, lol. I don’t drive, so no worries there about alcohol level.

My alcohol consumption has never been so high but reduced considerably since my son came to live with me, children emulate their parents you see and I don’t wish to send him a bad example.

Asahi Dry is already garbage. Reducing the alcohol content just adds insult to injury.

Oh my dear Bertie, no need to get so upset by a can of beer.

3.5% ? I'm having none of that! Strong Eight only for me...

3RENSHO

Ruddy hell, that stuff is like paint stripper, had once with one of my chums and it gave me a bellyache.

Asahi is nice. Easy to drink and tastes a bit like Bud. A very neutral non- offensive beer The opposite to craft beers.

For those who like a bit of earth, Kirin city does a good stout German style. Tastes great and cheaper than Guinness. But hey, nothing beats a Guinness.

Asahi is nice. Easy to drink and tastes a bit like Bud. A very neutral non- offensive beer The opposite to craft beers. 

For those who like a bit of earth, Kirin city does a good stout German style. Tastes great and cheaper than Guinness. But hey, nothing beats a Guinness.

Elvis, agree with all the above, but I’ve never been a Bud fan. Bud was great in my uni days (easy to drink and thus quickly get tanked), but as Bertie so sagely noted, the alcohol content is really the point.

Those countries that make claims to having the best food invariably drink the worst beer. Meanwhile, those countries that make no such claims about their food make the best beer.

I prefer that other Asahi beer actually, that one that brought back in cans. Hardly even had so can’t recall the name, lol

Don't mind Yebisu actually but would prefer a good beer from Europe to be honest.

I prefer the craft beers, plenty of those.

I prefer the craft beers, plenty of those.

Nah. Tastes like motor-oil.

Will be good to help me cut down in alcohol.

Well, Elvis, you said Bud is nice,

I said Asahi tastes like Bud. I didn't say Bud was nice

If this comes in the Jokki cans, I'll try it.

Touche

falseflagsteve-san,

Not upset at all. If thats all there is to drink at a party, I drink orange juice. I dislike Asahi Dry and Suntory Malts, but Sapporo and Kirin put out some decent beers. Kirin's Aki Aji is out now and it's really good!

Those countries that make claims to having the best food invariably drink the worst beer

I think this could be to do with having the beer as a complement to food. Mass produced Japanese beer is bland by design as to not overpower the food.

I couldn’t imagine having a mass produced Japanese beer just to enjoy the taste. They don’t really have much of one.

No thanks, I will stick with American microbrews, Fukuoka has quite a few that sell the good stuff.

Drinking craft beers is like eating ice cream. You always want to spit afterward or drink a big gulp of water.

I will try one of these brews and get back to you.

This brew is ideal to meet President Biden's alcohol czar's new limit of TWO beers WEEK for Americans.

I guess most of the GAI-koku-JIN here saying "I had it once, gave me the runs" actually had the cheapest happoshu and confused it with real beer. If this one made you sick, you shouldn't be drinking at all, and perhaps you should visit the doctor.

Don’t worry, it’s not happoshu, Japan’s much-maligned class of low-priced, low-malt alcoholic beverages,

I really don't see anything wrong with happoshu. It taste good like any other beer in Japan. Actually, happoshu taste better than other beers, imo.

Ewww. I remember as a kid in Japan when my parents and all their friends used to drink bottles of Sapporo or Kirin. Bring back the old days.

Chico3

I had that happoshu before but I thought it tasted funny and watery and I made me bloated and had a bit of a belly ache, you see.

Kirin's Aki Aji is out now and it's really good!

They put the same exact Kirin just in a different can. You haven't figured that out yet?

Nah. Tastes like motor-oil

Craft ranges from light lagers, kelsches, sours, gose, natural yeast fermented, pale ales, saisons, IPAs and their variations ; so that statement is somewhat silly.

発泡酒 is not beer. From wiki;

"Happoshu is a tax category of Japanese liquor that most often refers to a beer-like beverage with less than 67% malt content. The alcoholic beverage is popular among consumers for having a lower tax than beverages that the nation's law classifies as "beer" (ビール, bīru). Although the happoshu label is most frequently found on low-malt beer or beer-like products, alcopops that contain malt are also categorized as happoshu."

Even thought it is mostly regularly drunk by low income people; not to be shamed, most tourists and even short-term residents don't know the difference between prices of the beer like drinks in the conbini fridge.

Asahi Dry is already garbage. 

I'm sure it will taste fine. One thing I can't stand is beer snobs that insist that their taste buds are superior and that they know a good beer from a bad one.

Nigori for me or beer on ice.

Some wheat beers are happoshu in terms of recipe but not necessarily taxation. Hoegaarten might be, I don't remember. I don't think ingredients like orange peel and coriander are allowed in the Japanese definition of "beer".

Among major producer Japanese pilsner-type beers, I like Premium Malts best. I don't go out of my way to buy any of the others.

> Dry Crystal is specifically a beer for when you want some alcohol, but not a lot.

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it just doesn’t satisfy at the low alcohol volume so it won’t be going down my throat