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[rac118]

Then why are you in this country?


because it accommodates my level alcoholism.





youre welcome kids.

[Robot_Teacher]

Yuck. One time drinking soju is one time too many. One time getting drunk on Hite beer is one time too many. The alcohol blows whole circuit boards here. It's crap. Not to knock Korea, they make the worst quality of drink while they make great cars, microchips, cell phones, and monitors. Korea is terrible at making anything you put in your mouth, but best at electronics and hardware manufacturing.

I want good beer like German brew or microbrewery brew, but a selection of choices seem to be absent as a pink sky. Alcohol and drugs have to be the most boring in this isolated land that doesn't know anything about what good brewing is.

[jkelly80]

Dae Tong Ju is fantastic, as is makkeolli.

Dae Tong Ju plus beer is a revelation, but a horrible horrible headache waiting to happen.

[rac118]

[Bibbitybop]

Maekkoli suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, as does 90% of the alcoholic drinks produced in this country. It says a lot about the tastes as nation when North Korea's beer tastes 100 times better than any beer South Korea produces.

[RyanInKorea]

I am just going to say it, but the beer in Korea, particularly Cass/Cafari, is not overly terrible. It is comparable to the lower end beers in Canada, like Labatt Blue or Canadian, for anyone who knows about that. Really sheite beer can be found in Thailand or Vietnam, where you can't even really finish it.

Anyone can site the best beers in the world and say everything else is piss. Of course German beers are awesome. Most Western countries pride themsleves on their beers. South Korea has way better beer than the U.S.A. For the leaders of the free world, they sure do have sheite beers. Natty Ice, Old Milwauks, Bud? Those beers are sheite. Don't even get me started on Bud Lite...

Ryan

[Underwaterbob]

[LydiaSarah]

It is comparable to lower-end beers in other countries. The difference is, there really is nothing better that those here unless you pay more for something imported or the rare microbrew. Sure the U.S. has terrible low end beers, but it has become the country of micro-breweries.

As for Vietnamese and Thai beers, I'd drink Chang (Thailand) or Saigon/Hanoi beer any day over any of the Korean stuff.

[michaelambling]

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[Xuanzang]

Cheong ha or Andong soju is better than Lee Hyori soju.

[Panda]

I thought I was going to pick up some kimbap at a 7-11, it turned out I went into a men's room....

[Maserial]

[Milwaukiedave]

I agree most of the alcoholic drinks in Korea are nasty, which maybe way I find it so easy to not drink very much here.

When you are out with Koreans and they are pouring soju, a simple tip, keep a bottle of water near you if you don't want to keep drinking soju and refill your shot glass with that. It's much better then having the nasty *** hangover in the morning.

[orosee]

Regarding soju, over the past year I've progressed from a sense of pride that I could drink considerably more of it than my Korean friends, to the point where the smell of it made me retch, to the point where I'm now where just thinking of it makes me retch. What I really really miss are my favourite lime based cocktails of which there was an abundance in Bangkok but which are at best hard to find and overpriced here