After-work drinks: Ordering drinks and recommending something to try

💬 Past form + ことない means "have never done". Also 行ったことないです "I've never been"; the careful written version adds が: 飲んだことがないです.

💬 A pause after 梅酒 sets it up as the topic, a casual way of saying "as for plum wine" without any particle.

💬 じゃあ is the casual, everyday form of では (dewa), and it's used to wrap things up or move on.

🇯🇵 Ordering umeshu with soda, on the rocks, or with water is standard; servers may ask which you'd like if you just say 梅酒.

💬 Put any item before はどうですか to suggest it: ビールはどうですか？ "How about beer?"

💬 〜にします means "I'll go with ~" when choosing. Swap in any item: ビールにします "I'll have beer."

💬 Here は is said (wa), not (ha): (watashi wa).

💬 生 (nama) literally means "raw" or "fresh", which is why it marks beer from the tap.

🇯🇵 Many groups start with everyone ordering beer, and "とりあえず生" "a draft for now" is a famous first-round line.

🇯🇵 Naming what you want followed by お願いします is the standard, polite way to order anything in Japan.

💬 と joins items like "and": 枝豆と唐揚げ "edamame and fried chicken". It only links nouns, not whole sentences.

🇯🇵 At work drinks, nobody sips until everyone has a drink and someone leads the toast. Clinking your glass slightly lower than a senior's is a polite touch.

🇯🇵 Saying this out loud after the first sip is expected, especially when someone recommended the drink to you.

💬 Literally "it was good", this past form is how you say "I'm glad" when something worked out for someone.

💬 も after a word adds "too" or "also": 明日も "tomorrow too". Note 今日 is said (kyō), not a reading of its separate kanji.

🇯🇵 Coworkers say this to each other at the end of a workday, and it's often the toast itself at after-work drinks. It has no real English equivalent, more like "good work today".