Conversation about daily Japanese companies: Asahi vs Kirin vs Sapporo vs Suntory

💬 [では] is [で] + [は]: roughly "in/at" plus "as for," so it frames a place as the topic. You can swap in other places the same way: [家では] "at home," [会社では] "at work."

💬 [では] is often used after a place to mean "in/at ..., as for there." In speech, [では] is often said as [じゃ], so [日本では] may sound like [日本じゃ].

💬 Use [どの] before a noun: [どの会社] "which company," [どのビール] "which beer." If there's no noun after it, use [どれ] instead.

💬 [の] often links two nouns so the first one describes or belongs to the second: [会社のビール] "the company's beer" or "beer from that company." You can reuse this pattern easily, like [日本のビール] "Japanese beer."

💬 With [どの], the noun comes right after it: [どの会社] "which company." Then [AのB] makes "B of A," so [どの会社のビール] is literally "beer of which company."

💬 [人気] is a noun, so to say something "is popular," Japanese uses [人気です] rather than a separate adjective. The same pattern works with other nouns like [有名です] "is famous."