Yes, this much red won’t take a long time to start bothering your eyes. You can read my review of Tűzraktér over here, and see where it’s located over here.

Beer in Japan is like so many other things – a quite limited selection, of relatively high quality. There are 4 or so major brands – off the top of my head, Sapporo, Kirin, Asahi, and Suntory – each with a few “beer” products and a few “happoshu” or “zasshu” products. I put “beer” in quotes there because though they use enough malt to escape the “happoshu” (sparkling liquor) and “zasshu” (miscellaneous liquor) labels, all but the premium beers still contain rice and corn starch. Happoshu and zasshu are more or less the chemical opposite of pain relief medicine, inducing headaches and general joint pain quicker than you can swallow. If you avoid those two, which would be a fairer comparison to the typical American lawnmower beers than any of the legit beers the major companies here make, you’d have to say the (wet) bar is set relatively high here. But again, like cars, ethnic food, rice, electronics, and countless other things; if you trust yourself at all a consumer, the relatively high average quality of products in Japan doesn’t begin to make up for the sad paucity of choices. It isn’t really relevant to me that America’s biggest-selling beer tastes worse than Japan’s, since in America I’d never buy the biggest-selling beer with dozens of other brands sitting right next to it on the supermarket shelves. In Japan you really can’t buy anything but those 4 big brands without spending 3 times as much. Between no choice but the pretty good big brand and plenty of choices ranging from dishwater to Maudite, I’ll take Maudite every time.