While on business in Japan, I was invited to a Shabushabu Restraunt by my Japanese hosts for dinner. Shabushabu loosely translates into seafood buffet. Each table had a cookpot like the Vietnamese use and you'd go down the line of the raw bar, pick out your choices and bring them back to the table to cook. You also served yourself beer and you could eat and drink as much as you wanted. The catch was you only had 90 minutes. The reason I mention it here is the beer machine did everything for you. You set a mug on a small platform and the machine would lift the mug up, tilt it, pour the beer nearly full, right the mug to give it a head , set it down and push it out to you. I work on some of the most sophisticated military hardware in the world and that machine fascinated me to the point where I had to watch it do it's thing - - - beer after beer after beer after beer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
