Happoshu

While my brother was staying I decided to find out whether happoshu was as bad as I thought. I had a sneaking suspicion that it was mainly psychological so we did some blind tasting.
We had ten drinks (3 real beers and 7 fakes). Two were black (one beer, one happoshu) and we ranked them separately.
We gave marks out of five and I had some surprises......
I rated one happoshu above my favourite afterwork beer Asahi Superdry. The good-tasting fake is over 25p a can cheaper so I have since switched!! The happoshu in question was Enjuku, a new happoshu on the market. Since the tasting I have been drinking this 6% brew regularly and can safely say that it wasn't a fluke.
Another surprise was that one of the beers came out as the worst (Suntory Malts). This didn't surprise me too much though as I think it's a beer on a par with Fosters.
I was glad that we easily identified the black beer and the black happoshu and rated them accordingly. The black beer 'Asahi Black' beat all others in its overall score and the happoshu 'NamaKuro' rated the lowest.
The one happoshu I used to drink regularly was Asahi Gold.... I rated Asahi Red and Blue with better scores so I must have been influenced by the pretty gold colour of the can.....
Anyway..... The next post will have some piccys.... Mata ne...