yanpa wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Aren't beer prices relatively cheap in Germany? If you live there you get to decent drink beer made from natural ingredients for not much more than Americans pay for PBR, don't you?
Yup. 50 yen will get you half-a-litre of something drinkable in a bottle.
Ironically the high-class Yamaya near my place of work (also selling champagne at upwards of 300,000 a bottle) has a display of a German beer called Oettinger marketed as "premium export beer", which caused me to snigger the first time I saw it because in Germany it's the bottom of the range stuff you get from Aldi or Lidl. Still beats the pants off Heiniken and co.
Funny thing is I was just researching Oettinger (and Kaiserdom) because I saw it at Yamaya. I couldn't help but thing the German beers not in bottles at Yamaya weren't exactly the cream of the crop.
Of course, the best beers you can buy at Yamaya are Chimay (blue), Duvel, Weltenburger Kloster (Asam Bock), and a couple other overpriced trappist beers... it is absurd that Budwiser is priced like a premium beer here. Japanese people even think it is the best beer in American because..well, they have no reason not to. It's expensive and it's the only American beer widely sold here.
