Originally Posted by senbot
fixedude... I'm on JET... How about you? I'm getting some experience before going to teacher's college, hopefully at u of t. at which point I will be able to ride the khs flite 100 I have stored at my parents' house... Have you checked out any keirin while you're here? I just found out that there's a keirin track in town here, and i'm planning on checking it out soon... just haven't really had a chance since I found out about it.
For some reason japanese beers remind me of beer that is on the way back out... they're more bitter? maybe? Although it's mostly draught that I'm thinking of, I guess. Bottled and can beer here isn't bad... definitely if you compare it to blue, and you avoid happoshu/fake beer. Although if you have any recommendations for any particular J-microbrew beers, I'd be into hearing.
And I definitely agree with cavit8 about maudite. It was definitely the worst beer ever. if you hold it up to light, you can't even see through it.
sorry for the lack of toronto based content...
i am also here on JET...going in to 3rd year. teaching experience, eh? (you are definitely working too hard then...
my first class tomorrow is at 11:30AM and my second--and last!--class ends at 2:30PM...and that is with my 1hr lunch.). i have not checked out any keirin yet, though there is a race next month at one of the prefectural tracks <www.keirinwa.com> i might be checking out. i take it your track is <www.takamatsu-keirin.com/index.html> with
chitaka-chan as your mascot.
always avoid the happoshu! unfortunately, most beers in japan are from either
big or
micro, with not much in between (e.g., similar in size to sleeman, big rock, creemore, amsterdam, etc.), meaning that you can usually only get the microbrew selections in the towns they are brewed in. microbrews from towns i can specifically recall, include ones from kinosaki, kumanokodo and hongu, along with some others i cannot remember. otherwise, there was a great 'international beer festival' in osaka last year that i checked out and that, amongst the international brews, had a tent with a good variety of strictly japanese microbrews.
check your PMs.