発泡スチロール: styrofoam

永字八法: the Eight Principles of Yong

a beer made with less malt by weight than the percentage required to be officially labelled as “beer”, as defined by the Japanese tax code (and thus avoiding the higher taxes on official “beer”)

styrofoam

側 (soku) or 点 (ten, literally “point”), the first / 勒 (roku), the second / 努 (do), the third / 趯 (teki) or 跳ね (hane, literally “jump”), the fourth / 策 (saku), the fifth

(originally Onmyōdo fortune-telling) blocked on all sides

light beer

“third-category beer”, a beer-like alcoholic beverage that is not classified as either beer or happōshu in the Japanese tax code

synonym of 第三のビール (“third-category beer”)

第三ビール: “third-category beer” not classified as beer in the Japanese tax code