It was this brand called "water."
Tasted terrible.
But really I don't know the brand.
We went to a Japanese restaurant that we love and in our more recent ventures we came to be friends with the owner. Nice guy. When he heard it was my 21st birthday he offered me Sake. I accepted and drank the shot.
It...took some getting used to but I overall enjoyed it.
It was real traditional too. He twisted the jar and everything (I don't exactly know WHAT that means but I know it means something. @
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do you know?)
Either way, after that, he basically forced beer on me and my mother due to us accepting the sake. And this was not a small glass of beer either. This was a big glass and he told us it was the strong stuff.
I tried it and found it....unpleasant.
But my mother whispered that it was expected of me to drink it as the Japanese have a big thing for drinking.
And she was right, in our conversation our friend explained that the Japanese employers use drinking nights and gambling nights to see just how "strong and happy" their employees are.
Interesting way of putting it.
Unfortunately, the beer was so bad that I could not finish it but had some "help" from the owner as he took some of my drink.
I feel like I insulted him though. My first time drinking and all and he expected me to go at it.
Sake with a beer chaser. Heavy stuff let me tell you.