UK has whiskey. Eastern Europe has its vodka. Americas have everything. Korea has soju. What is the most common hard liquor in Japan? I'm visiting soon and don't know what I should drink when I'm stuck going out.
...how can you not know that?
beer.
The straight answer is "sake". But beer is more common.
misosoup
Whiskey was actually invented by the Chinese. And I don't see all that many people drinking it in the UK on nights out. Most popular would be beer and alcopop drinks, then probably shots of whatever (usually sambuca or tequila or some other flavoured 'liquer'), then probably wine (white > red) and finally stuff like brandy and coke and whiskey and coke.
they drink pocky ^___^
>>9 sake (さけ 酒) is the general word for alcohol in japanese. however, real sake (the drink) could be called "rice wine" in our language.
>>7
The first written records of whiskey are from Scotland and Ireland in the 1400s.
I don't know where you heard that stuff about the Chinese. :/
Calling it rice wine always weirds me out, because production techniques are closer to beer and it doesn't age nicely like wine.
semen
The blood of coreans.
An idiot, I guess. For crying out loud the name is Gaelic and its made mainly from wheat... which was not exactly prominent as a crop in Asia back when people were drinking whisk(e)y on the British Isles. It's like retards who say vodka is made from potatos... the cheap modern stuff yeah, but real vodka is from wheat as well. What with potatoes only being brought over to Europe some time after vodka's invention.
To te people saying beer is more common: if you actually read the post he's asking for the most common HARD LIQUOR.
BEER is not a fucking SPIRIT, neither are ALCOPOPS.
Adding to the nationalities of spirits, gin is from the Netherlands originally.
Is shochu the right answer then?
>>16
lol
and semen. Don't forget semen.
Semen Mania anyone??
You do know its possible to change the name of something foreign to a local dialect?
Just googling "Chinese whiskey invention" comes up with masses of lists of Chinese inventions, among them brandy and whiskey as distilled pure alcohol from wine being frozen, long before the first European written records. Even on the wikipedia of whiskey it casts doubt over it being a scottish invention.
As for vodka, it technically can be made with anything that ferments but yes the best tasting ones are from wheat and other grains (such as rye). Yum! :D
>>21
Wikipedia says that the first written records of whiskey are from Ireland in the 1400s.
It does not cast any doubt and doesn't mention China even once.
I can Google "evil George Bush communist mason" and find all sorts of shit, but that does not make it true.
My penis juice.
the whole "chinese invented whisky" thing was on QI a while back, that's probably where people keep picking it up from. fuck knows if there's any truth in it though.
just might be they've invented plenty of other things
You know, sake was actually invented by the Korean. It's our culture.
Only Wikipedia says it was invented by the Chinese nida.
It was also put in their QI book of general facts. So research did go into it, just not sure how much...
If QI is wrong, I'll bite a tramp's ear.
Better start disinfecting that ear.