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transcription: first part of the bottle: this tastes like juice. second part of the bottle: im not drunk yet. third part of the bottle: meow meow meow :333 meow :3 mrow purrrr :3 purmrow meow :3 :3 meoowwww :3 mewmew
The sugars in soju will fuck you up. The worst hangover of my life was with soju.
Now I kinda want to try soju. I have yet to meet a drink with any appreciable amount of alcohol in it that doesn't taste like paint thinner smells to me. The only way I've ever been able to "not taste the alcohol" is if there's barely any in the drink.
Soju tastes kinda like vodka. I think sake is a good balance of "high enough alcohol" and "doesn't taste like paint thinner." Not a connoisseur by any means but a bottle of Kurosawa is cheap and tastes pleasant and fruity, and has around 14% ABV.
I probably won't be able to tolerate it then sadly. I'm super sensitive to bitter flavors that's seemingly why alcohol is always so unpleasant to me. I've tried so many drinks that even friends who barely drink at all say they can hardly taste the alcohol that all tasted just vile to me. Thanks though!
Sake is meant to be sipped diluted. Get a small bottle of something decent or a big one of the good shit to share with friends.
Also look uo good coctails. And ice creams.
Sake is meant to be sipped diluted.
Can you elaborate on that? I've never seen anything about people adding water or other mixers into their sake (except the rare case of sake cocktails, which are definitely not the default way of drinking sake).
That said, I usually add water when I drink sake, but I do that because that's what I do with most of my alcoholic beverages; I never got the impression that this is the normal way of drinking it.
Like with a little water? I dontbremember an optimal ratio, but the character of the flavor definitely changes.
I don't, like, have an acadwmic source on thia.
Yeah, just a few ml to take the edge off - it's not even about the alcohol for me (I happily sip 63% ABV rum if it's the good stuff), but about the unusual sake-specific flavor. I could probably sip a milder sake as-is, but we don't exactly have a huge amount of choice where I live.
Kinda sounds like it's just something you do, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but you wrote that as if it's the standard way to do it.
I thought it was, but
So, this may shock you, but i did not learn most of what i know about alcoholic beverages and their consumption from scholarly articles.
I'm mostly working off magazine articles, blog posts and books like David Wondrich's "Imbibe!". Most of the time, a simple web search with terms like "how to drink [beverage]" will yield results. e.g. for single malt whisky you can easily find articles and lengthy forum discussions over how much, if any, water to add, and plenty of articles write about what temperature to drink sake at and how to make hot sake. Though it's always possible that something is fairly common in Japan that western bloggers are not aware of.
Im going off, in this case, an old japanese lady, a weebshit martial arts nerd, a couple waiters and one bar tender (i think)
Ok, I take it back. I just got some peach Jinro soju, it's 13% ABV and doesn't taste like alcohol at all. Even less than the Sake. Definitely try it.
I'll see about giving that a shot then.
I think Ginger Beer masks vodka well (I.e. Moscow Mule). I actually like the tastes of some alcohol though (wheat heavy beers, and scotch). Hate IPAs, the weird sour/sweetness of bourbon, and the weird aftertaste of tequila.
They're supposed to have different tastes? I've tried several different kinds of rum and vodka along with a Buddy of mine buying some Crown Royal Black to share with me at my 21st and I couldn't tell the difference between any of them. I could tell the difference between a few of the different beers I've tried but none of them tasted anything like they were described to me.
If that's your metric just drink "flavored fortified wine" aka bum my wine like MD 20/20. It's really high alcohol content and super sweet to mask the poor quality.
I've tried wines like that before. I apparently have that gene where you super taste bitter and it just tasted like flat LaCroix mixed with paint thinner.
That's gotta be a different gene, bourbon and rye taste like bitter wood to me (because of tannins from the cask aging) instead of the boozy vanilla that many people claim it tastes like, yet (decent) vodka tastes completely neutral to me. But I do believe that some people perceive alcohol itself as bitter while others do not.
Do you dislike bitter flavors in general, like coffee, tea, or salad?
Coffee and tea both do it, but both depend on how strong they're brewed and are generally easier to push through than any alcohol I've ever tried. Espresso though is vile no matter what. Salad generally is fine though depending on the vegetables used certain ones are more powerful than others. Like lettuce on its own has this weird finish to it and that's the extent of the unpleasantness.
As for alcohol I've had a few different kinds of rum, whisky, vodka, a few different wines, and basically I can't tell the difference between anything that isn't the wine. It's like once it hits a certain proof all I can taste is the alcohol part.
I got completely annihilated on Korean rice wine once. Tested like slightly sweet water. Ice cold, very refreshing. By glass number four, I was at stage 2 snot bubble. Something like 24% ABV and I was drinking water glasses of it
Soju is actually distilled, and thus a spirit (or possibly liqueur) and not a wine.
Well hellz bellz peng you I guess that explains it
This stuff is like sweet flavored vodka. You can drink it pretty quick for sure.
One of my historically worst hangovers was from soju. Together with friends we went to a Korean grill place and the drinks just kept coming. Next morning was bad. I was wrecked in a ways Sodom and Homorrah were, and I was the Lot's wife looking back at the inferno in the mirror. Big bang headache with coordination of a limp muppet and diction of a local railway station announcement.
I'm a big guy. I'm my life I've experienced some shits. Metal band tours. Post game rugby bus shenanigans. Hoboing around and drinking to keep warm. Getting wasted with carbide enriched hooch while at a LARPG. Soju brought every of that memory, and played a sadistic slow motion replay, making me question every life decision.
So yeah, gotta try that again once. And I need to score some buckfast.
bucksfast
what are you, too good for chugging white lightning?
Elaborate please?
no
if that's a drinkin' song, I raise you one with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ak-JkzfKc
(arguably the first anti-vaxxer song... but still a banger)
What kind of beverage is that? I wanna nyan.
Soju.
It is a little bit like vodka. It is served ice cold, tastes like mildly sweet water and comes in a beer-style bottle so people who don't know what it is drink way too much of it too fast and then get hit like a hammer. The bottles are meant to be poured into shot glasses and shared. It has 20-25% alcohol content and some drinks are sold premixed with a juice flavor like the example in the picture.
It is extremely cheap too in South Korea. You can buy a 20 pack case for less than $1/bottle there. You can get alcohol poisoning for less than $10.
Thanks!
It's soju, a Korean grain spirit, traditionally made with rice. This one is peach flavored, which means it barely tastes like alcohol and goes down extra easy, since most soju nowadays is low proof liquor.
who the hell licks the lid?
:3
