A pink pussy to match your beer
By Rocky | February 8, 2008
We are not 100% sure if this stuff is beer, but the ad is too good to not use it. It’s another amazing ad from Japan. It looks as if their beer called ‘Be’ is available in different colors, there’s pink, green and blue so what better to advertise it than three kittens dyed the same colour playing a piano. The advertising people in Japan must have been on on some interesting drugs when coming up with this one. Bolt yourself to your chair (as you will fall off laughing) and enjoy.
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Reijyou All Malt Beer Super Premium
By Rocky | January 30, 2008
Japan changed their beer tax laws in the early 1990’s which then allowed smaller breweries to start up and Echigo Breweries was one of them starting in 1993. Today they make a fine range of products including today’s beer the Reijyou Pilsner. It’s a 5% all malt beer with a refreshing hoppsy flavour. Like many Japanese beers it has a light but fairly frothy head and a strong aroma, which is actually stronger than it’s taste. It is not readily available outside Japan but many Japanese and Asian supermarkets stock it. It is well worth a try and an alternative to the mainstream Japanese beer products which have taken a strong hold on the market, and any beer company which has a goat on it’s logo must be good!
Come back tommorow and we have a story about a $400 beer!
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A few free beers and a look around
By Rocky | January 12, 2008
What could be a better day out than a few freshly brewed free beers and a look around a brewery? At Ashahi Breweries in
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Wassabi….
By Rocky | December 23, 2007
We know, we have come to the end of our Japanese Beer Ads week- We have enjoyed them so much, and we think we will do another week of them sometime in the New Year. For our last day we have found a real treat, and to be fair it’s not really Japanese, it’s for Budweiser. You should get a laugh out of it, its based in a Japanese restaurant and the fun is all around the pronunciation of Wassabi the hot horse radish sauce so popular in Japanese cuisine.
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Beer for Kids- what will they think of next?
By Rocky | December 20, 2007
Well from the land which has beer and smokes vending machines on street corners for easy access to everyonen now has a beer for kids. Well it may not be real beer, it seems to be a apple based product but it sure looks like beer, and by the look of this ad kids love it. It’s frothy, golden and looks as if it puts a smile on the face of evey Japanese boy and girl. Turn the sound up on this You Tube as the song which goes with the ad is fantastic and you will probably be humming it in your sleep. The drink is called ‘Kodomo no nomimono” and is sold in cans, bottles and wait for it, even six packs. We have done a little research and they also make a sparkling grape juice for the little ones, which is pretty much a alcohol free champange
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Yellow Magic Orchestra play the Moog for Kirin Lager
By Rocky | December 19, 2007
This ad is a bit of a weird arty one. It is for Kirin Lager and features the Yellow Magic Orchestra playing the Moog Synthesizer Little Phatty. The Yellow Magic Orchestra are one of Japan’s hottest acts, they have been around since 1978 and are renowned as having pioneered synthpop and electropop in Japan, they are compared to Germany’s Kraftwerk- you might remember Kraftwerk for that Autobahn song in the mid 1970’s. This ad is quiet entertaining the YMO are dressed as cavemen, geishas and their best suits, not sure what it has to do with selling beer but who cares, its all a bit of fun.
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Drunk Penguins- now thats what I gotta see!
By Rocky | December 18, 2007
Well after yesterday’s Blue Tounge Anti Whale controversial video, we thought we should lighten up a bit - athough we are still angry people eat want to whales when there are so many other tasty animals. Today’s Japanese Beer Ad is a ripper, in fact there are 5 short ones for your viewing pleasure. The quality isn’t all that good but the content sure is cute. It’s a series of drinking penguin ads- Beer is making this little fella a bit emotional I think. He has a lovely black and white singing girl friend and a nice can of tasty Japanese Beer. You are going to love it.
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Drink beer instead of eating whales!
By Rocky | December 17, 2007
Most of the world thinks its not very nice eating whales and we agree. But many Japanese appear to need to eat them after they do their so called scientific research - haven’t they tried cows? Blue Tounge beer in Sydney Australia has taken the step to link their tasty beer with the horrors of whale slaughter with this somewhat unpleasant ad. Hopefully it will help change the minds of the people who enjoy eating these magnificent creatures and they will reach for a bottle of beer instead - im sure the beer is much tastier and wouldn’t have that fishy smell! (Just a little warning today’s You Tube video might be too graphic for some but thankfully no whale is shown being hurt in this advertisment) Save the Whales!!
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Its Japanese Beer ad Week!
By Rocky | December 16, 2007
We have found so many great Japanese Beer ads on YouTube so we thought we would do a whole week of them. Some of them - well all I can say are amazing. The first reminds us of the hit movie “Lost In Translation” but its Harrison Ford selling Beer instead of Bill Murray selling Scotch- The Japanese have a long history of using huge US stars in somewhat awkward Japanese ads - you should enjoy it.
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Want to win a beer robot? We do!
By Rocky | December 13, 2007
Well this one isn’t like the cute on on yesterdays Hoppsy Blog but it sure is impressive. Japan’s Asahi is running a competition where they are giving away 5000 of these great little robots which not only stock beer in their refrigerator tummy they open it an pour it into your favourite beer glass, then even put the empty in a receptacle. It’s the perfect robot, he dosn’t even spill a drop and gives a great Japanese style frothy head to your beer. All the winners need to do is collect 36 specially marked seals from cans of Asahi beer. How hard could that be, then go into the draw with millions of other people, we couldn’t work out the conditions or the closing date due to not understanding Japanese or Jinglish very well, but that’s no excuse to not enjoy some tasty Asahi Beers.
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