Question regarding alcohol: Meaning of " 飲める！甘いのだけ”. More context in description below Is Japanese beer sweet? To provide context to the question I asked, the sentence was extracted from 2 characters talking to each other. Both of them went into a bar. One of them has low alcohol tolerance so the other character teases them about it. The teased character retorted back with a "!" I would like to ask about the meaning of "". Is this a slang, or does it mean "I can drink! It's just too sweet for me!" which brings me to my question above if Japanese beer is sweet, because normally beer is bitter right? So why would he say that it is sweet? Does "" have another meaning here, for instance, "I can drink!I'm just trying to go slow"?

This means "sweet ones" where corresponds to a pronoun "one(s)" in English. For example, means "the more expensive one". The sentences mean or "I can drink (at least) sweet ones."

I'm a bit confused what exactly is happening in this situation, but are they really talking specifically about beers? Japanese beers are not fundamentally different from foreign beers. To me, it sounds like this person is saying "I can drink (not-so-hard) sweet alcoholic drinks", such as Cassis orange. Can you double check the context?