Lucky Yebisu

This is the story of the lucky Yebisu beer bottles.
Yebisu or Ebisu is one of the 7 gods of fortune, who is normally depicted with a fishing rod and a red fish he’s. It is also a make of very tasty beer, and the picture on the label is of this god.
Yamamoto told us about the lucky Yebisu bottles, apparently one in every 100,000, that has a picture of Yebisu with a second red fish. In 2003 we ended up with 2 of these lucky bottles, both ordered at 844. The owner couldn’t believe how lucky that was, nor could our Japanese friends that had never seen even one. Just to point out, we didn’t have to drink 200,000 beers to get them!