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Japanese spirits are shit and overpriced and I'm tired of pretending they're not.

>> No.19304522

why are you pretending they're not

>> No.19304576

>>19304496
More expensive, but there are some really good ones. You're probably too poor to have had those good ones. Stick with plastic bottled vodka and coors light. Sounds more your style.

>> No.19304601

>>19304496
That bottle used to be lik $60 at Total Wine a few years ago, and now it's like $100+ if you can even find it. It used to be really good for the price, but now it's not worth it.

>> No.19304606

>>19304601
It used to carry a 12 year age statement and then they discontinued it to come out with the NAS Harmony which is both more expensive and an inferior whiskey by all accounts.

>> No.19304613

>>19304496
Try getting nikka whiskey from the barrel. It is tasty.

>> No.19304617

>>19304576
Go back

>> No.19304624
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>tfw Yamazaki 12 has quintupled in price over the last 10 years and has become 10x harder to find
Fuck that noise

>> No.19304625

>>19304617
Awwww poor copelet. How cute!

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>>19304576
>>19304625

>> No.19304633

>>19304628
It's funny you have those images so handy. I bet you look at them when doing unspeakable things.

>> No.19304634

Its alright. I got gifted a bottle for my wedding and I thought it was pretty good for free. Would likely never buy it though.

>> No.19304647

>>19304496
>overpriced
what the fuck are you talking about. a bottle of sui is like 10 dollars, classic suntory kaku is like 8 or 9, and dai-ginzo sake starts from around 12 dollars a fifth
stop buying from those retarded weebmagnet importers with 300% margins

>> No.19304760

>>19304496
Agreed, I've tried several Japanese whiskies and they don't hold a candle to even a basic scotch like Balvenie Double Wood.

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>>19304633
I tippu mai hattu tu yu.

>> No.19305509

>>19304496
>overpriced
Poorfag thread.
Pathetic.

>> No.19305768

>>19304496
it's pronounced yokai you retard

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>>19304496

>> No.19305998

>>19304496
the whole appeal of japanese spirits was the cheap price. you could buy a drinkable bottle of whisky for like $4 at 711 and get blasted on highballs in your hotel room. now that they are epxensive it's bullshit.

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>>19304496
Because nips have very loose standard for whiskey, but can sell it high to weebs.
That being said nikka is good.

>> No.19306092

It's not the whiskeys fault its jew amerishart business owners. Chita, Yamazaki and Hakushu are all 4000yen here in Japan, if you can find them. Chita is everywhere but the other two are rarer. They are the best and if you need more you are retarded.

>> No.19306108

>>19306092
Yeah it's the same for mezcal and gin. They just slap a celebrity name on a fancy looking bottle and mark it up like crazy

>> No.19306127

>>19305976
guess I'm a retarded weeb because i want this

>> No.19306151

This is an opinion held by 100% of people about Japanese whisky, it's not the controversial opinion you think it is.
Japanese gin is where it's at though, Roku slaps, and it hasn't been pushed to unreasonable prices by hipsters yet

>> No.19307806

>>19304633
do you not have any classic 4chan reaction pics, newfag?

>> No.19307998

>>19306151
>hasn't been pushed to unreasonable prices by hipsters yet
Yeah because it's normie retardbait already.

>> No.19308004

>>19304522
fpbp

>> No.19308010

>>19304601
same thing for a lot of bourbons and Irish whiskeys

>> No.19308042

>>19304496
Nikka Coffey Grain is legitimately very good, but yeah most of it is not worth the insane markup.

>> No.19308054

>>19306127
If you're a weeb just buy rice wine AKA sake. It's called nihonshu for a reason. There are also other native Japanese spirits like shochu and umeshu. There's not really a point to overpaying for Jap versions of Western-style spirits just to scratch your weeb itch.

>> No.19308090

>>19304496
they're not great, but Japan produces some pretty great cheap whiskey for $10 a bottle.

>> No.19308145

>>19308090
Never seen any Jap whiskey for 10 bucks

>> No.19308169

>>19304496
I was a big fan of Hibiki back in 2011-12ish
Haven't been to the liquor store in a while, but even a few years ago I wouldn't pay the markup on jap whiskeys, if you could even find Hibiki.

>> No.19308180

>>19308145
Are you just assuming whatever your local store prices have are the global going rate for a foreign good? The main market for Japanese beverages is Japan, and the equivalent of a well starts around 10 dollars there (suntory, nikka, akashi). If you don't believe me, look for yourself on Rakuten

>> No.19308402

>>19304496
Couldn't agree more. A scotch for the same price or cheaper will always be 100x better than any of the nip shit. But I'm glad that they exist to siphon off demand for better alcohol from elsewhere.

>> No.19308434

>>19308402
I think the funniest thing is that they're usually blends of Scottish and Irish shit and rebranded with some ching chong symbols on the label to attract retarded weebs

>> No.19308451

they used to be cheap and good for the money
blame the meme market and people who only rate spirits on the basis of how smooth they are