Ed wrote:
> Let's see if I understand your problem correctly. You now have a beer soaked
> room which you need to smell like it doesn't smell like a beer soaked room.

Close. I have a beer soaked room, but I never have company over (that 
what love hotels and travel are for) and certainly never hold any 
parties in the apartment - easier to have a party in the bar and charge 
the guests. The problem is that too many bottles explode, leaving me 
short of beer. I had to take a crate of Kirin to the hanami bbq 
yesterday to cover the gap.

> The tatami are the problem. My advice is to throw the smelly tatami
> somewhere else while your company is in your apartment (the guests won't say
> anything because you are a gaijin, thus aren't expected to know that the
> room they are sitting in was once a tatami room). Once the rascals leave,
> you can be free to deoderize the tatami using either kitty litter, the
> sooothing rays of the sun, or ground coffee sprinkled liberally over the
> offending odors.
> 
> Personally, I'd go with the coffee treatment. It's the most expensive, but
> the only one that will really work to get rid of the smell of wort.

Wise advice methinks. Is this from personal experience?

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me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue 
will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of 
that sinful Old Janx Spirit"