Favorite Drink?/Drink Talk Thread

Tu_triky wrote:

so you don't bathe in Laphroaig's like the rest of your neighbors? I thought everybody got drunk off singe malt whiskey and then took a skinny dip to go look for Nessie.

mmm... Laphroaig... i finished a quarter cask bottle the other day. :victory:

krim wrote:

mmm... Laphroaig... i finished a quarter cask bottle the other day. :victory:

read: this morning. :hehe:

ganmo-chan wrote:
Eh? You know, the Scots men here do treasure their "takara-mono"...enough to know better than to go for a swim in the bitter cold winter looking for a plastic floating toy. Their wee-gems would fall off in the freezing cold waters here... :rofl:

LMAO! That's funny.....wee-gems.. :rofl: :rofl:

My husband works for a liquor factory

That's the best job in Scotland! I bet hubby is popular with his mates. :drink: :drink:

ganmo wrote:
Eh? You know, the Scots men here do treasure their "takara-mono"...enough to know better than to go for a swim in the bitter cold winter looking for a plastic floating toy. Their wee-gems would fall off in the freezing cold waters here... :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

water :victory:

That's the best job in Scotland! I bet hubby is popular with his mates. :drink: :drink:

@Anime Dad - Yeah, the ones that don't work at the factory love it...you know, they get top of the line booze for Christmas presents. However, most of my husband's mates work at the factory also so everyone scores during Christmas...whether they work there or not. My husband brought home some nice Sparkling Rose Wine which I'm giving to one of my friends at work. Grand, isn't it? :mrgreen:

Laphroaig's

I had never heard of this so I looked it up. My husband knows what type of Whiskey this is. He also said that among the older generation, Famous Grouse (his father's favourite) and White and MacKay are very popular.

ganmo wrote:

That's the best job in Scotland! I bet hubby is popular with his mates. :drink: :drink:

@Anime Dad - Yeah, the ones that don't work at the factory love it...you know, they get top of the line booze for Christmas presents. However, most of my husband's mates work at the factory also so everyone scores during Christmas...whether they work there or not. My husband brought home some nice Sparkling Rose Wine which I'm giving to one of my friends at work. Grand, isn't it? :mrgreen:

Laphroaig's

I had never heard of this so I looked it up. My husband knows what type of Whiskey this is. He also said that among the older generation, Famous Grouse (his father's favourite) and White and MacKay are very popular.

stick with the gyoza...it's tastier. :beaten:

ganmo wrote:
@Anime Dad - Yeah, the ones that don't work at the factory love it...you know, they get top of the line booze for Christmas presents. However, most of my husband's mates work at the factory also so everyone scores during Christmas...whether they work there or not. My husband brought home some nice Sparkling Rose Wine which I'm giving to one of my friends at work. Grand, isn't it? :mrgreen:

I heard about a Scotsman who fell into a vat of whiskey and drowned. He managed to resist all attempts to save him :P

But yeah, great job for that kind of thing. I used to get quite a bit of alcohol as Christmas presents from suppliers etc, some of which I used to give out to others :)

I heard about a Scotsman who fell into a vat of whiskey and drowned. He managed to resist all attempts to save him :P

LOL...I can just picture it:

Davie: Och Jimmy...haud on...Ah'll get ye some help!

Jimmy: Dinnae bother mate...this is mah lifetime ambition...Cheerio!! *glub...glub...Jimmy goes down in a vat of whiskey...big smile on his face.*

:rofl: :rofl:

stick with the gyoza...it's tastier. :beaten:

Ehem...you mean...whiskey flavoured gyoza?? :mrgreen:

:rofl: :rofl:

Your Scots "translations" are spot on :)

Your Scots "translations" are spot on :)

LOL...not me...my husband helped me out (since he's sitting right next to me). :victory:

Och aye th' noo!

Och aye th' noo!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It'll be a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht!

*Note...I did not type that...my husband did and I have no idea what he just said/typed. :mrgreen:

LOL it's OK, I do :) My parents would come out with that at random times when I was growing up :)

ganmo wrote:

Och aye th' noo!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It'll be a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht!

*Note...I did not type that...my husband did and I have no idea what he just said/typed. :mrgreen:

eigo wa hanasu koto ga dekimasu ka? :P

Asahi plans Super Dry anniversary blitz

By KAHO SHIMIZU


Staff writer
Asahi Breweries Ltd. said Thursday it will design a new bottle and launch a massive ad campaign for its core suds Super Dry to commemorate the brew's 20th anniversary next year.

The announcement follows one by Kirin Brewery Co. about plans to launch in February what it says will be its first new major beer brand in 17 years, after its popular Ichibanshibori. Kirin will mark its 100th anniversary next year.

The moves by the top two brewers may stimulate the sluggish domestic beer market. In recent years, breweries have been preoccupied with concocting beerlike alcoholic beverages to satisfy rising demand for "third-category beer," which is cheaper because it is not genuine beer and thus taxed at a lower rate. Real beer has a much higher malt content.

"Next year will be the year when breweries will turn their attention to beer," Asahi President Hitoshi Ogita told a press conference.

"By further boosting the brand value of Super Dry, we want to attract people" in their 20s and early 30s whose tastes are diversifying to include other alcoholic beverages, Ogita said.

In addition to the usual Super Dry cans, Asahi plans to repackage the mainstay brew in a slim 350-ml aluminum bottle decked out in silver and black to appeal to the younger generation.

It also plans to air a TV commercial featuring baseball star Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees.

Despite the huge campaign plan, Asahi is actually cutting its target for beer sales in 2007 to 139 million cases, compared with its estimate of 143 million for the current business year. A case holds 20 633-ml bottles.

Ogita said the company was taking a "conservative approach" because the beer market is continuing to shrink and is expected to remain flat next year.

As for third-category beer, Asahi expects to sell 26 million cases next year, or 8.3 percent more than its current goal, and boost sales of "happoshu," another low-malt beerlike beverage, by 13.8 percent to 33 million cases.

Asahi has dominated the domestic beer market since it claimed the No. 1 spot from Kirin in 1998 on the phenomenal success of Super Dry.

The Japan Times: Friday, Dec. 15, 2006
(C) All rights reserved

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/nb20061215a3.html

ganmo wrote:

Ehem...you mean...whiskey flavoured gyoza?? :mrgreen:

yummm... peat flavored gyoza. :bleh:



:hehe: :hehe:

krim wrote:


yummm... peat flavored gyoza. :bleh:



:hehe: :hehe:

for that good from the earth 35 B.C. taste

eigo wa hanasu koto ga dekimasu ka? :P

@triky...funny you should ask. The Scots ask us Americans the very same question. :hehe:

yummm... peat flavored gyoza. :bleh:

@krim...yeah, if you don't want to eat it, you can always burn it and savour the sweet aroma of the Scottish Highlands on a cold winter night. :rofl:

for that good from the earth 35 B.C. taste

:rofl: :rofl:

@triky...interesting article you posted. So, Asahi is planning this huge marketing blitz aimed at the younger generation...interesting. I'm thinking, if a major beer or whiskey company decided to try something like that here...start a major marketing blitz to draw in the younger generation...we'd have a whole lot of drunken neds/nedettes (hooligans, both male and female) running around causing even more drunken chaos. Not a good thing for Scotland or the rest of the UK, IMO. On the other hand, maybe they'll all drink their sorry selves into a coma and that would be really nice for us normal folk. :beaten:

ganmo wrote:

eigo wa hanasu koto ga dekimasu ka? :P

@triky...funny you should ask. The Scots ask us Americans the very same question. :hehe:

difference is if you went to a third country and spoke english...the chances are they'd understand the Scotsman would be zero.

On the other hand, maybe they'll all drink their sorry selves into a coma and that would be really nice for us normal folk. :beaten:

drink deep and forever sleep

as for the Asahi campaign i heard next year during Seiji no hi when the youngsters turn hatachi they're going to have several kegs of beer on tap at Meiji Jingu so they can do beer bongs right there in the temple complex.