Takoyaki and Beer - The Premium Malt’s Suzunone Ale🍺/ たこ焼きとビール (English & Japanese)
（日本語は後半にあります）
【Japanese】
Is there any good food that goes well with #BeerSaturday...? I had been thinking about it since this afternoon.. Then I decided to make takoyaki at home for the first time in a while.
Around 5:00 p.m., with the daytime heat still lingering, I went to the supermarket to buy beer and takoyaki ingredients. When I got home, I cut up the ingredients, mixed takoyaki flour, water, and eggs in a bowl to make the batter, and left the rest to my husband and two sons. It was another very hot day and I was sticky and uncomfortable with sweat, so I decided to take a bath before dinner. When I got out of the bath, six arms were busy cooking takoyaki.
I bought this electric griddle in 2020, and it has been very useful for yakisoba, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, and yakiniku. We bought this griddle at the time when “STAY HOME” was being shouted under COVID-19, hoping to make our home life a little more enjoyable.
At the time, we didn't know how to make takoyaki, so we first watched YouTube videos on how to make them and studied them while grilling... nostalgic memories.
Now we can cook beautiful round takoyaki without video. Look at this beautiful ball!
Well, I didn't cook a single one this time. I didn't even hold a pick.
The beer I bought today is Suntory's Premium Malts "Suzunone Ale" (meaning "cool sound ale"). It was just released on July 30 of this year, and I think it is a summer-only product, since the "limited edition" is written on the fireworks-patterned package. I bought it because of the girlish can design and the product name, which means "cool sound". It has been a hot day in Japan and I hope it will cool down soon😅
The alcohol content is 6%, which I guess is a little high for a beer. I was drinking it while eating takoyaki, and by the time I finished a can, I was starting to get a little giddy. According to its website, it is a Japanese ale beer characterized by the harmony of a "gorgeous hop aroma" from European aroma hops and a "rich brewing aroma" from fruity yeast. The refreshing taste made the takoyaki disappear instantly.
I wasn't sure if it was Japanesque or not, but it was easy to drink. If you are interested, please visit their website👇
Lately, my 6-year-old second son is very happy when he hears the words "#beersaturday". He can't drink alcohol, of course, but he seems to think that #beersaturday is a fun event to enjoy eating delicious food. Today, too, he said, "Let’s BeerSaturday!!" and was eagerly drinking Coca-Cola Zero and chewing on takoyaki. On the other hand, my 11-year-old son insists, "I'm not going to drink even if I grow up!" 😅
Thank you @detlev for hosting another great event this week.
Beer drinkers, why don't you join us for #BeerSaturday if you'd like? See the post below for an overview of the contest and rules. Also, don't forget to comment with a link to your post when you enter😉
https://inleo.io/@detlev/beersaturday-373
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【Japanese】
#BeerSaturday に合う何かおいしい食べ物はないかな・・・ ということで、久しぶりに家でたこ焼きをすることにしました。
ビールとたこ焼きの材料買いに行き、材料を切り、ボウルにたこ焼き粉と水と卵を混ぜ合わせた生地を作り、あとは夫と息子たちにお任せです。今日も一日とても暑く汗でベタベタしていたので、先にお風呂に入ることにしました。お風呂から上がると、6本の腕がせっせとたこ焼きを焼いています。私は別に焼きたくない（食べる専門がいい）ので、助かります。
このホットプレートは2020年に買ったPanasonic製のもので、以来、焼きそば、お好み焼き、たこ焼き、焼き肉にと大活躍です。コロナ禍でしきりに「STAY HOME」が叫ばれていた時期、少しでもおうち生活を楽しくできればと買ったものでした。当時私たちはたこ焼きの作り方が分からなかったため、最初はYouTubeで作り方の動画を見て研究しながら焼いたものでした・・・懐かしい。
今となっては動画なしでも、綺麗な丸いたこ焼きを焼けるようになりました。どうでしょう？
といっても、私は今回ひとつも焼いてないんですけどね。ピックすら握っていません。
さて、今日私が買ったビールはSuntoryのプレミアムモルツ『涼の音エール』です。今年の7月30日に発売されたばかりの商品で、花火柄のパッケージに「限定」と書かれていることから、夏季限定と思われます。女子っぽい缶のデザインと、「涼の音」というネーミングに惹かれて買ってしまいました・・・もう毎日暑くて暑くて😅
アルコール度数は6％で、ビールの中ではやや高めなのでしょうか。たこ焼きを食べながら飲んでいたら、一缶飲み終える頃には若干目が回り始めていました。ホームページによれば、欧州産アロマホップ由来の『華やかなホップ香』とフルーティ酵母による『豊かな醸造香』の調和が特徴の、ジャパニーズエールビールだそうです。爽やかな飲み口で、たこ焼きが瞬間的になくなりました。
「ジャパニーズ」っぽさがあったのかどうかは分かりませんでしたが、飲みやすかったです。興味のある方はホームページをどうぞ。
最近、「#beersaturday するよ！」というと、6歳の次男が喜びます。次男はもちろん飲めませんが（隙あらば飲もうと狙ってはいる）、#beersaturday イコール おいしいものを食べられる楽しいイベント、というイメージを持っているようです。今日も「ぼくもビアサタデーしよっと」と言いながら、せっせとコーラゼロを飲みつつたこ焼きを頬張っていました。一方、堅物の長男（11）は「おれは大人になっても酒は飲まない！」と言い張っていますが😅
@detlev さん、今週も開催ありがとうございます。
ビールを飲む皆さん、よかったらビールに関するストーリーと写真（最低3枚必要です）で #BeerSaturday に参加してみませんか？概要とルールは以下の投稿をご覧ください😀また、応募の際は記事のリンクをコメントすることもお忘れなく。
https://inleo.io/@detlev/beersaturday-373
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Hahaha what a great family reunion, sharing together the idea of #BeerSaturday of course your little one is right, sometimes this event manages to materialize and it turns out to be a good way to gather several Hivers and eat delicious things accompanied by a beer.
Here in Spain, takoyaki is something extremely exotic hahaha I don't think I could even try to make them, it's hard to get a place where they make them decently. But it sounds like a great family plan.
Sometimes I also get carried away by the design in some beers, it's another way to discover new flavors. Cheers!
To tell you the truth, I'm still pretty new when it comes to beer, and I've been drinking a lot since I was invited to this Beer Saturday a few months ago. So I don't know much about it, and I tend to buy beer based on the design of the can or bottle when I go to the store🤣
It sure can be hard to find a takoyaki place in Spain.... But if you can get this takoyaki cooker, it is not so difficult to cook takoyaki. If you have a chance, please give it a try.
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