I only watch Evangelion when I'm drunk.

[Stryker]

So Misato does have some good taste when she comes to drinking

...She's yet to have Witte...

I can't describe how good it is. It is like good wine. very light, but it tastes amazing. You can only get it in a large bottle. If you ever see Witte, get it. You will not be disappointed.

[symbv]

...She's yet to have Witte...

I can't describe how good it is. It is like good wine. very light, but it tastes amazing. You can only get it in a large bottle. If you ever see Witte, get it. You will not be disappointed.

Witte or Weissbier would be considered premium in Japan... Have to agree that they are very good! It is getting easier to obtain now but as far as mass produced domestic brand is concerned, it is still Yebisu...

[SenorSquiid]

Japanese beers? Seriously? Pshaw. If you're going to drink good beer you should buy real good, preferably local beers, and if you're going to drink cheap mass marketed swill (nothing against that, a favorite past time of my own) then American swill is much more cost effective. Even good Japanese beers aren't much better than Miller High Life, and not up to Samuel Adams quality, which is still fairly mass marketed and either the bottom end of good beer or the upper end of cheap beer.

[symbv]

Japanese beers? Seriously? Pshaw. If you're going to drink good beer you should buy real good, preferably local beers, and if you're going to drink cheap mass marketed swill (nothing against that, a favorite past time of my own) then American swill is much more cost effective. Even good Japanese beers aren't much better than Miller High Life, and not up to Samuel Adams quality, which is still fairly mass marketed and either the bottom end of good beer or the upper end of cheap beer.

Yes, seriously. Japanese beer can be really really good. Something I did not expect before I started living in the country but soon grew very fond of. I have compared the mass produced beer made in America (Bud, Miller) with those made in Japan (Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi) and I always prefer the Japanese ones. But I have to say that less mass produced beer (microbreweries) like Samuel Adams, Brookyln Lager, Anchor Steam are very good. Japan also has local beer (called Jibiiru 地ビール) and microbreweries and they are very good too, and from the few dozens I have tasted I can say they all match Samuel Adams quality. The problem is more an issue of availability, particularly outside Japan. One brand that is relatively easily available in Japan (sometimes even sold in supermarket) is Ginga Kogen Beer (galaxy highland beer) which is a weissbier. They have an English website too
http://www.gingakogenbeer.com/english/index.html

[Korgan]

I rewatched a few select episodes and EoE while high on DXM. Man, that was so jaw-dropping. Felt much more real and vivid than anything in this world. I had a hallucination of being Shinji and talking to Gendo afterwards.

[tomrule123]

OOH, never tried this before. Time for another marathon of EVA... this time, being drunk. Bottoms up! ... oh, wait, ... Ok, then... (five minutes into the show) ...the F*ck am I watching again?

Well, that didn't work on me.

[zpoop]

Screw all this beer talk. I only drink vodka.

Alone...

In the dark...


But at least I have Eva to keep me company!

[PhoenixInShadow]

Yes, during EOE. It was somehow 100 times better, which I didn't think was possible.

[GasmaskAvenger]

i'm not sure I would watch EVA intoxicated

i'm just fine watching it sober



though this thread reminds me I need to get some booze for my viewing of TNA Sacrifice

[SenorSquiid]

I'm taking acid this weekend. Debating with myself how prudent it Would be to have EoE playing in the background while I listen to endless Beach Boys albums.

[Xard]

if you do acid you're one stupid motherfucker

[juaxoo]

not one stupid motherfucker, THE stupid motherfucker

[child of Lilith]

Try not to do yourself any serious harm this weekend SenorSquiid.

[Carl Horn]

I once watched it all the way through drinking Yebisu, because I figured that's what Misato would have wanted.

--C.

"There's only music, so that there's new ringtones."
—Arctic Monkeys, "A Certain Romance"

[symbv]

^ Good choice. Yebisu is a good beer (better compared to other Japanese beer not from a microbrewery like Asahi Dry or Kirin Draft). Misato (Anno?) surely got good taste.

[Carl Horn]

Fortunately, the grocery in Japantown carried Yebisu. The Japanese beers in most U.S. supermarkets are light and clean, but very standardized (I love Sapporo's classic can design, but the can is more exciting than the beer ) What's that Japanese microbrew that uses the red owl on its label?

While I haven't had good luck yet with Japanese blended whiskies (Ian Fleming himself said Japanese whisky was good, so it must be out there), Suntory Yamazaki 18 year-old is very good. I toasted 2.0 with it.

[symbv]

What's that Japanese microbrew that uses the red owl on its label?

You asked the right person. When I lived in Japan, I sampled a lot of their craft beer. I believe you are talking about the Hitachino Nest Beer from Kiuchi Brewery. Check:
http://www.kodawari.cc/?en_home/products/hitachino-nest-beer.html

While I haven't had good luck yet with Japanese blended whiskies (Ian Fleming himself said Japanese whisky was good, so it must be out there), Suntory Yamazaki 18 year-old is very good. I toasted 2.0 with it.

Japanese whisky is SUPERB!!! I have sampled their Yamazaki, Hakushu, Yoichi and blends like Hibiki, Taketsuru, Super Nikka, Fujisan-roku etc. All very fine indeed, but Yoichi and Yamazaki impressed me the most. You picked the right one to start your Japanese whisky journey!!

[SenorSquiid]

if you do acid you're one stupid motherfucker

Pish posh. There's nothing to fear if you treat things responsibly and with a little forethought.

But anywho, decided against End of Eva cause I was flying on on unconditional love and the overwhelming beauty of everything around me and EoE wouldn't have fit in with my mood. Did watch a little FLCL during the come down and that was pretty great though.

[Xard]

Pish posh. There's nothing to fear if you treat things responsibly and with a little forethought.

Coming from you doesn't help the case for acid at all :P

[Oz]

if you do acid you're one stupid motherfucker

I wholeheartedly agree with this, but there is an exception to this "rule": Hunter S. Thompson.