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NoDolan · Joined: 29 Jul 2007

I live in Busan, and Koreans are crazy about their local soju C1.
It works but the consequences are rather brutal. Is there a fine soju out therer I might be able to find besides C1 or Good Day in Busan ?

Czarjorge · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:

C1 has a 'premium' soju that's fifty percent more expensive, but a little bit better. I don't mind the C1, just stop at the third bottle. Five bottles made me feel like death the next day.

Another option is to throw water into the mix as you drink it. I like to have a cup of green tea with soju when I'm at home writing. Seems to take the edge off and prevent the instantaneous drunk that I've found soju delivers.

cheeseface · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi

Andong soju is meant to be the best as it is made from 100% rice.

It will cost you 40,000 won a bottle though.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject:

yall are talking about soju like there's something good about it.

I_Am_The_Kiwi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008

poet13 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject:

it's good for de-icing locks in the winter though...

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

Soju goes by region. You would be hard pressed to find C1 in Seoul, or Chamil Sul in Busan.

egrog1717 · Joined: 12 Mar 2008

Jinro isn't bad... Kind of citrius-y at first... Though it turns to rubbing alcohol by your 9th or 10th shot... Funny like that, lol

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

There's a premium soju that comes in a square bottle.

The price: 2,000 won. Double the price of normal soju!

It tastes the same though. I think you just pay the extra 1,000 for the square bottle, which is handy because it won't roll away from the gutter you're lying in.

Big Pun Lives · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I can't read Korean, but the stuff the has "Clear and Fresh" on the label is much smoother and is only 1,600 - Man, who can drink 5 bottles in one sitting? I drank homemade moonshine that had less of hangover than soju.

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:20 am Post subject:

there was a wonderful soju for the world cup down in gyeongsangnamdo that lasted from 2002 until 2005 at which time they changed the formula aqnd it became less sweet, more of an edgy bite

The old "White" brand taste.

http://www.goldeneagletrading.com/korea/white.jpg

Does anyone remember how it used to taste BEFORE 2005?

It was the best of the lot, by a lot, which may not say much, but man was it different, smooth and a bit sweet, a nice nonvodkalike aftertaste.

I miss it.

bundangbear · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: www.youtube.com/bundangbear

Jinro is considered the gold standard in affordable soju.

Lots of the cheap stuff is not even made of rice nor sweet potatoes. Though traditionally made from rice, most major brands supplement or even replace the rice with other starches such as potato, wheat, barley, sweet potato, or tapioca (called dangmil in Korean). It is good with kolbangi!

www.youtube.com/bundangbear

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:42 am Post subject:

sojourner1 · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:47 am Post subject:

Another FT gave me 3 small green bottles 1 month into my 1st year. I went home on a Friday night and drank 2 small green bottles of soju and never felt so bad in my life before when I woke up the next morning. I didn't touch it again and still had the same 1 other bottle 10 months later in my apartment which I threw out.

I understand why a hangover is worse with some drinks such as soju and cheap liquors. It's because it has traces of many other alcohols (fusel oils) as result of junk ingredients and cheap quality brewing process as well as chemicals to artificially induce fermentation. The beer here is terrible about chemicals and fusel oils too. Even the Korean Budweiser is not good. Soju and the 3 brands of beer are crap quality, but considered good for working class people as it's cheap and gets people talking in a relaxed manner. Soju and the world's worse beer are the lubricant among Korean men who work together or in the same line of business and are considered a very important necessity in Korea. .

I'm willing to pay more for quality drink so I drink European import beers. I want Cruzan rum, Fat Tire amber ale, and Franzikaner hefeweizen beer which I consider very top notch quality products in my xperience.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

I saw a commercial for a new soju recently that looked like it was geared towards women.

I think the main advertising catchphrase was "soft". I guess it is a smoother taste.

I know some Koreans who put a thick slice of cucumber in the soju bottle. I hear it helps mellow out the taste.