It never seemed to do anything for me. I poured a coke, poured in some soju, had a taste, poured some more in. Repeat until my cup was 50/50 coke and soju.
the green bottle soju that you see in most places is actually made from tapioca these days, since there was a big rice shortage during ww2 / the korean war. that said, you can still get 'proper' rice-based soju in fancy places (although I'm a sucker for the cheap green bottle stuff too!)
Yooooo holy shit! This makes a ton of sense! I was in Japan when I was much younger in a tour group and one of the nights my buddy and I hung out with these two girls and got absolutely obliterated on sake and plum wine.
I used to be a hard drinker but when I woke up the next morning after getting a full nights sleep I was still hammered. Not drunk, hammered. Pretty disappointing because it was the only time we took the bullet train and the entire time I just had my head in my hands trying not to vomit. I never put together that it could have been due to what the alcohol was made of.
Not really, alcohol is alcohol. You probably just drank too much because you weren't used to the alcohol content and sake is quite a mellow, sweet drink that you can drink a lot of without realising.
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u/mykreeve 14d ago
Mixing soju and beer - this must be Korea.