Life In 19x19

Bonobo wrote:Umeboshi <3

Looks more like omygoshi.

I don't drink myself, but when I lived in Japan, one of my friends always went nuts about having to drink this brand's sake: http://www.satsuma.co.jp/english/con-sh ... n-imo.html. Especially the second one mentioned on that page, Kuro Shiranami.

[edit:] it's actually shochu. He still liked it a lot.

Boidhre wrote:

Dante31 wrote:You might want to try posting this in a forum that has something to do with alcohol. I highly doubt that there are avid drinkers here that know a lot about different sake.

Sure because interest in other aspects of Japanese/Korean/Chinese culture is very rare in the go community...

Well if drinking is an interest in culture, then an alcoholic must mean a VERY cultured person.

Dante31 wrote:

Boidhre wrote:

Dante31 wrote:You might want to try posting this in a forum that has something to do with alcohol. I highly doubt that there are avid drinkers here that know a lot about different sake.

Sure because interest in other aspects of Japanese/Korean/Chinese culture is very rare in the go community...

Well if drinking is an interest in culture, then an alcoholic must mean a VERY cultured person.

I am sure you have just paid a compliment to many people here. They just won't admit it.

DrStraw wrote:

Dante31 wrote:

Boidhre wrote:
Sure because interest in other aspects of Japanese/Korean/Chinese culture is very rare in the go community...

Well if drinking is an interest in culture, then an alcoholic must mean a VERY cultured person.

I am sure you have just paid a compliment to many people here. They just won't admit it.

I highly doubt it... I just don't see alcohol inspiring anyone to read and write. I am pretty sure that that is one of the reasons why a library and a bar are not the same thing. I don't think anyone has ever said in all seriousness: 'Look at that guy! He must be really drunk. He read 3 books and wrote an essay.'

Dante31 wrote:I highly doubt it... I just don't see alcohol inspiring anyone to read and write. I am pretty sure that that is one of the reasons why a library and a bar are not the same thing. I don't think anyone has ever said in all seriousness: 'Look at that guy! He must be really drunk. He read 3 books and wrote an essay.'

Robert Parker.

Dante31 wrote:

DrStraw wrote: I am sure you have just paid a compliment to many people here. They just won't admit it.

I highly doubt it... I just don't see alcohol inspiring anyone to read and write. I am pretty sure that that is one of the reasons why a library and a bar are not the same thing. I don't think anyone has ever said in all seriousness: 'Look at that guy! He must be really drunk. He read 3 books and wrote an essay.'

I'm sorry, but your naivete is amusing. Take a look at this site for starters. And look around a little more.

http://listverse.com/2008/01/22/top-15- ... c-writers/

Dante31 wrote:[..]

I highly doubt it... I just don't see alcohol inspiring anyone to read and write. I am pretty sure that that is one of the reasons why a library and a bar are not the same thing. I don't think anyone has ever said in all seriousness: 'Look at that guy! He must be really drunk. He read 3 books and wrote an essay.'

I drink alcohol sometimes, rather seldom, but when I do I enjoy it, and I am usually very careful not to get drunk since I know how alcohol can anaesthetise one’s sense of ethics.

BTW I believe I am a multicultured person I not only like sake, I also love South Indian toddy and many other things.

Also, I think you may be somewhat prejudiced … have you read biographies of people who have written books? I think you’d be surprised how many people who “use/d” alcohol (or other substances, for that matter) were and are not only well-read but have/have had great influence on human culture.

Greetings, Tom

Absinthe

It rose to great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers.

Dante31 wrote:[I am pretty sure that that is one of the reasons why a library and a bar are not the same thing.

Actually... Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Columbus, Los Angeles,Copenhagen, Baton Rouge, various places in Texas and who knows where else...might disagree with you (=

Dante31 wrote:Well if drinking is an interest in culture, then an alcoholic must mean a VERY cultured person.

Replace saki with sushi, drinking with eating and alcoholics with morbidly obese people. Disliking alcohol and its consumption is fine, but the above statement is nonsense.

there are too many different types of sake to really give an easy recommendation
it is akin to saying "i like wine, someone suggest me wine"

that said, there are some simple things you can do to learn it

http://www.sake-world.com/html/types-of-sake.html
as seen here there are types of sake, typically just go with a junmai-______ type sake. i find those to be better than anything with alcohol added

if you're looking for something sweet then go with a nigori style sake first

also
for the love of god
please drink it cold
if you drink it hot it destroys all the flavor inside, which is why there are so many "deals" with hot sake
the reason they can sell it cheap is because it is super horrible cheap sake that they can mask the badness by heating it up