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

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      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.

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        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.