So join me, Raina Ong, as I go on an intoxicating journey through craft beer and sake in and around Nagoya. Nagoya is one of the most populous cities in Japan, and only 30 minutes by train from Chubu Sentrae International Airport.

Nick is an inspiration with a phenomenal passion for life that's intoxicating for everyone who meets him.

Gosh, it's pretty intoxicating, isn't it?

I have no idea is absolutely intoxicating.

Hailing from Northern Europe, berserkers were known for fighting in a nearly uncontrollable trance-like fury, which gave rise to the English phrase "going berserk." It's believed that their fearless strength and unstoppable bloodlust was caused by either working themselves into a rage or taking intoxicating drugs before battle.

It's sake's less intoxicating cousin, the one who drives everyone home, made from fermented rice just like sake but has less alcohol or no alcohol at all.

Psychologist Dorothy Tenov calls this state limerence, that intoxicating, intrusive phase of infatuation when you can't stop thinking about someone who barely knows you.

Throughout Thompson's life, he would follow suit in this advice and remain unequivocally guided by his own trembling finger. Knowing there is no right way and always going his own. Taking and giving up control, always on his own terms. Challenging the status quo and venturing into new, greater depths of artistry and consciousness. Forging a new genre of literary journalism and writing numerous masterpieces, Thompson would go on to become one of the most prominent American writers of the mid to late 20th century. His work shining with the neon lights, oozing with the blood, and intoxicating with the substances of the time. Thompson was born in 1937 in Louisville,

But they are intoxicating.

And for many of them, the experience becomes intoxicating.