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Feb 27 2008 8 Comments

Let’s lovely lager

After a long day at the office, a nice lager or two is just lovely — great even.

Japanese beer

That said, whether such sentiments are suitable for this soapy looking substance,

Japanese blue beer

or, heaven forbid, its scallop-based sister,

Japanese scallop beer

are debatable to say the least.

The blue stuff it turns out is made using melted ice floes, with the pigment from seaweed producing its far from tantalising tint, while the other mixture is made using molluscs which is more than enough information.

Both of which can be bought online along with other novelty beverages, including the guaranteed to make one baulk, Bilk — a bizarre milk and beer combo.

All produced in a suitably putrid 12 pack.

Japanese beer

Categorized: Food and Drink, Odd

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Comments

  1. Jonathan says

    2/27/2008 at 6:21 pm

    Eeek I can barely handle normal Lager (I’m a cider man myself), that stuff would definitely turn my stomach!!

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  2. Bunny says

    2/27/2008 at 8:20 pm

    I’ve got the flu, but that post has made me leap to the fridge to crack open an Asahi! CHEERS!

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  3. Neil Duckett says

    2/27/2008 at 8:43 pm

    Bilk! Hahaha, brilliant!

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  4. Paul says

    2/28/2008 at 5:58 am

    Bilk looks vile. I’ve linked this over at b3ta, mate, seeing as it’s about beer, i.e. important.

    I’ve actually drunk a blue beer before, but have to report it was a bit of an acquired taste, something like meths is an acquired taste.

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  5. Nick Ramsay says

    2/28/2008 at 9:29 am

    Crumbs, I think I’d rather drink a bottle of Listerine. 😯

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  6. Gemma says

    2/28/2008 at 8:32 pm

    mmmm…..refreshing beer after a hard days work!

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  7. Hunty says

    2/29/2008 at 3:45 am

    damn, for a second I thought the second bottle in the 12-pack said “Bacon Draft”, and was willing to forego the disgustingness of the other beers just for a bottle of that!

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  8. michael marion says

    6/14/2015 at 4:04 am

    I would rather try the Iceland’s fin-whale festival smoked in sheep dung beer

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