It’s Sunday. No, it doesn’t matter. I just needed some first words, and somehow it feels that Ginga Kogen’s pale ale is a good pick for a lazy Sunday evening.
Pension
A while ago at the studio some of the folk with families were in an intense conversation about their pays and how (well) they can live in the future. Pensions were mentioned as well, and someone said “I feel sorry for foreigners who pay in pensions here”. I was a bit surprised and asked why, and he said “come on, no way you’d live here for so long.”
Echigo Red Ale
I picked up a can of the Red Ale by the Japanese craft brewery Echigo. Echigo is the old name for the area that is currently Niigata prefecture, where the brewery is based.
Tokyo Black
A few years ago “dark beers” started showing up on the supermarket shelves in Japan. I think every major mass-market brewery has a porter-imitation brand, but Tokyo Black from Yo-Ho is a whole different world.
Dota 2
I gave it a try. People were going on all (online) around me about the Internationals, which by the looks of it is the Dota equivalent of LCS, and I decided I’d see for myself what’s going on – I could hardly tell what was going on at all from replays after all.
Jordan Badger, the brother of Adrian Mole
It’s one thing to be stuck in the studio basically all day (except for exceptions), and it’s another to spend the whole of that time actively doing work. Which is what happened today…
Ginga Kogen wheat beer
Ginga Kogen (銀河高原, Galaxy Highlands) is a Japanese brand that I’d put somewhere between craft and mass-market. One of their central products is their wheat beer.
El Salvador Pacamara
The other day I noticed that Starbucks rolled out another coffee, so of course I gave it a try. El Salvador Pacamara (as the name suggests) comes from Central America, where its grown “on the slopes of a volcano”, on the Montecarlos coffee estate. I tend to expect full-bodied and dark roasted, aromatic coffees from the Americas, and Pacamara was no letdown.
The Bud
The thing about Budweiser is that by the time someone gets well-phrased enough in the world of beers to know what good and bad is, they tend to become snobs who can only appreciate craft IPAs, refusing to even treat mass-produced delights like Bud as beer.
