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toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
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| what's not to like about soju? For less than 10 dollars you can get royally mashed up and still have enough cash to buy a pack of ciggies. Truly magical. |
Agreed - I like to take a biggie size bottle of Powerade, pour out 1/2 the ade, fill the rest with soj, and rinse n repeat till I'm nice and drunk...usually can be done for under a mann-er. One trick is to buy those jumbo plastic bottles of soj at the grocery store for 5K won. Much more cost effective than buying the little green bottles.
Also, the poster above who mentioned that soju is the great "equalizer" is spot on. I like going out in a large group and not have every individual piss and moan over what they want to order (i.e. "Do you have any craft beers?" "What is your selection of merlots?" etc etc). In Korea, it's soju, cass, or hite. Don't like it? Hit the road, jack. Newbs need to stop worrying and learn to love the soj. |
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jpe
Joined: 15 Aug 2011
Location: Seoul, SK
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| that's why you need to mix soju with the high-quality domestic beer over here |
Hold on, they have high-quality domestic beer here? |
I had one of the Platinum beers....a Belgian wit I think. It was fine. As overpriced as a lot of imports, and maybe not quite as good as some microbrews in North America, but still worth it.
I have no idea how widely they're available though, or if you can get them anywhere outside the brewery. This should be a new thread topic maybe. |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought Hite D was as 'high-quality' as K beer gets. TBH, that's not all that bad and tastes similar to most other lagers. As for soju, you know what you're getting into when the top comes off that bottle. It's not about taste or palate at all. It just means Hammer Time. |
Is that with, or without parachute pants? |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| jpe wrote: |
| bekinseki wrote: |
| cbank30 wrote: |
| that's why you need to mix soju with the high-quality domestic beer over here |
Hold on, they have high-quality domestic beer here? |
I had one of the Platinum beers....a Belgian wit I think. It was fine. As overpriced as a lot of imports, and maybe not quite as good as some microbrews in North America, but still worth it.
I have no idea how widely they're available though, or if you can get them anywhere outside the brewery. This should be a new thread topic maybe. |
Didn't Platinum close? I know there are various other microbreweries around Seoul, but I've never heard of any of them offering 소맥. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I quit soju (or so-spew) years ago and have never looked back. That crap is disgusting and worse than the green liquor that they sell at Chinese restaurants. |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| Back home a bottle of Jinro soju is 6$... since it is 5 times more expensive it must be a lot better for me. |
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jpe
Joined: 15 Aug 2011
Location: Seoul, SK
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| bekinseki wrote: |
| jpe wrote: |
| bekinseki wrote: |
| cbank30 wrote: |
| that's why you need to mix soju with the high-quality domestic beer over here |
Hold on, they have high-quality domestic beer here? |
I had one of the Platinum beers....a Belgian wit I think. It was fine. As overpriced as a lot of imports, and maybe not quite as good as some microbrews in North America, but still worth it.
I have no idea how widely they're available though, or if you can get them anywhere outside the brewery. This should be a new thread topic maybe. |
Didn't Platinum close? I know there are various other microbreweries around Seoul, but I've never heard of any of them offering 소맥. |
I'm not sure. They were on tap at a restaurant I was at near Noksapyeong a few weeks ago |
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