Month: August 2014

IQ

The name of the band itself gave a very pretentious impression. “This is intelligent music!” Well, there is some depth to it, I must give them that, but I still couldn’t grow to like it.

IQ - The Road Of Bones


Iwate Kinkura

This Iwate local beer called Kinkura was recommended for summer, so of course I decided to give it a try.

Kinkura


Unazuki Kamoshika Bock

To be honest I didn’t even realize what kind of a beer I picked, even though it was the “bock” that caught my eye. 氈鹿 (kamoshika) stands for serow, in line with the German meaning of Bock (which also billy goat).

Unazuki Kamoshika bock


A VPS, again

Just this morning I got a promo tweet telling me about SSD cloud hosting for $5 a month. Not that I’d need a cloud host VPS to run a low-traffic WP blog, but I like occasionally having fun with lower-level stuff, and als— wait what? It costs less than my current shared plan?


今年の夏、仕事あるんで週末しか動けないから、遠くまではいけないが、2つの案がある。一緒にきてくれる人募集。そして2つともアニメの聖地巡礼くさい。


海の中からこんにちは!

明日夕方頃、艦これのメンテが終わって、イベントがはじまる。楽しみにはしてる。ただ、いろいろ新しいルールも導入されるし、報酬も見えないとあまり頑張る気が出ない。(嘘です。)


Karuizawa Asama Kougen

I’ve only ever heard good things about the beers of Karuizawa Brewery. Not that I could name any specific comments, but the brand had a generally positive ring to me. That only meant that my expectations were high. Very high.

Karuizawa Asama Kougen


Helios porter of the starlit sky

I’ll have porter if I may
It helps me keep content and happy

When it comes to the Okinawan brewery’s porter, I couldn’t agree more with the Clancy brothers.

Helios porter


Echigo Koshihikari

Echigo is proudly advertising itself as Japan’s first micro-brewery, so I was understandably looking forward to one of their major products, a rice lager.

Echigo Koshihikari


Thunder and lightning

I picked up the Raiden Rydeen wheat beer last weekend, but I only got to it tonight. My (tiny) beer glasses also arrived today, yay.

Rydeen