Coca-Cola launches first alcoholic drink in Japan

Ahh i was hoping it would be a coke flavored drink. Would have sold well purely off the Coca Cola name.

Still, i hope i get a chance to try it. I hope the trial doesnt just end in Kyushu

Damn... I was hoping for something that looked more like real Coca-Cola, so I could buy a couple by ‘mistake’ when the need arose....

I've said it before but if you want an alcoholic cola drink, a glass of rioja libre aka kalimotxo is your only man.

@expat

As a pedant in general, I sympathise.

Teeny bit over the top, no?

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Hard lemonade!

Surprising, as for many many years, it has always been, "Drinking Rum and Coca-Cola." as in the song by the same name.

In Hawaii in the fifties I worked for the Coca-Cola Company and later as sales manager for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Honolulu. I remember when the King Size Coke and later the Family Size Coke came out. For us this was a big step forward and now . . . an alcoholic Coke, wow!

an alcoholic Coke, wow!

Wow - you must be the most senior member on the forum - actually working in the 50s...must be in your late 70s.

But it doesn't sound like an alcoholic coke - just yet another chu-hi which will taste the same as all the others. And Coke makes all kinds of drinks in Japan, a lot are local Japan-only drinks.

The review on SoraNews seems to be very positive, though i suspect it is mostly a paid advertisement. I find many of the lemon chuhais to be very artificial tasting, where they said that it had a fresh squeezed taste, "in line with the high quality you would expect from a coca-cola product"

I suspect they have the three percentages to gauge which one sells the best. I hope its the 5%, because 3% drinks arent worth the calories, and recently the only other choice seems to be the 9% "strong" ones which are pretty horrid tasting

Still, a rum & coke, whiskey coke or burbon & coke mix would have been my choice for their first alcoholic beverage.

Ah_so, Actually I will reach the young age of 90, August the 8th. At the end of World War II, I was in the occupation of Japan, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division. I have seen a lot to the present time of running my businesses and having a great life writing my novels. Below is an excerpt of introduction to Book I of the Private Payne Trilogy. Ride The East Wind.

The War is Over

* The war is over; I find myself walking the streets of Yokohama as an eighteen-year-old soldier, looking in awe and wonder at a world of devastation and despair that I see before me. Japan is an intriguing and different world. A world I had only seen while watching newsreels at the Strand Theater in Tupelo. I have never been far from my home in Mississippi. I glance at homeless people gathered in small groups near train stations looking forlorn and destitute. I see makeshift houses built along the riverbanks and shacks under bridges to help block the cold winter weather. Adults and children hug tattered blankets to keep warm. As I slowly walk in the city, I stop and stare with wonder at the bombed out buildings- many now call home.*

    At the entrance of a temple, I see a cluster of former Japanese soldiers missing arms or legs. Some have bandages- leaving their wounds festering, hoping for donations of food and money.

*A few months ago, the Japanese were my deadly enemies. Now, I see them through different eyes- eyes of compassion. I realize the impact of war on families and children. As I ponder this, I think of my family in Lee County, Mississippi and the difficult times our family endured during the Great Depression.*

Ray Payne - Fascinating! Are any of your books available on Amazon?