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went to a beer festival in Ebisu today, 400 different brews made in Japan. I guess you could call them beer, as far as they were beter than what most people here refer to as beer (Ebisu, Krin, Saporo, Asahi). Of course, perhaps I am making a linguistic mistake... perhaps the japanese word biiru is not even supposed to be translated to "beer" in English. I guess this would be akin to transalating the Japanese word for "tea" as "milk" and then saying that Japanese milk sucks. I would like to be a positive person, so I will assume that what I drank today was not even supposed to be beer.
Some of it would have been alright though if it were beer. I had a stout that was ok, a porter too that I would be tempted to translate as "beer" if I didn't know Japanese so well. I tried an IPA that was better than most biiru I can buy in the shop near my house. All in all though I would much rather have a beer than a biiru.
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