Tigers and Cranes

Well, things are still looking pretty grim here. I am settling into a nice rhythm working all day in the boonies and coming back to my hotel to crack open a can or two of hite beer and watching satellite tv. My internet connection is still pretty spotty, but i can bang out a few words still, as you can see.

Speaking of Hite beer, in case you aren’t down with wonderful world of korean beer, it breaks down like this. There are three major brands of beer, kinda like how Japan has four major breweries (Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin, Suntory). Most popular seems to be the aforementioned Hite, pronounced, i believe, like “lite”, OB (for Oriental Beer. What’s this political incorrectness? “oriental”?!), and Cass, which is not prounced like “ass”, but like “Christmas”.

Eh?

My personal favorite tends to be Cass, since it has absolutely no beery taste… it’s like drinking yellow mineral water that also gets you drunk! There are times when you just don’t want any flavor in your beer, and Cass delivers in spades. Hite is pretty flavorless too, but it’s hideous when not chilled to super-conducting temperatures. I know this, because i drank one the other night when i found a can rolling around in my car.

Cass Beer

OB is the oldest of them all, therefore it makes sense that it’s drunk by ajussis… old korean dudes, when they aren’t swilling the “Toad Soju”. A bit of trivia… OB used to own a professional baseball team in korea, named “OB Bears”. I dunno why OB doesn’t sponsor a team no more, but now the bears are financed by some goofy company named “DooSan”. Huh huh huh. “Doo”.

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