In Taiwan we put ice in our beer and like it.
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I've had a singular alcoholic beverage and tbh it wasn't good and I felt nothing. What's the crime of mixing with ice tea?
Liquor in tea? Delicious.
Beer in anything? Disgusting.
A Radler is a German thing, shandy in English. Basically half lager half lemonade. Fantastic light drink. I've seen them at Total Wine in a few flavors.
Beer cocktails are a thing. Drink what you like.
Prost.
Tea does not mix with anything but sugar and fruit, and I will die by that. Twisted Tea is an abhorent product, and the creator needs a catholic exorcist.
I'll go with a "Pink Elephant"
TIL shandy is not "sham brandy" as in non-alcoholic (??) brandy but what we call Radler. Learning all kinds of things today. Thank you OOP.
Radler ✅
Alcohol-Free Beer ❌
- Radler: beer & lemon soda
- Berliner Weisse: beer & raspberry syrup
Those are the two I know; there are others.
The Germans, who among all people are known for their long and storied association with beer above all else, regularly mix beer with random stuff. If they do it, I'd argue it's more normal than American purism.
Oh there is more:
- Russ: wheat beer & lemon soda
- Cola-Weizen: wheat beer & coke
- Kirschgoaß: dark beer & coke & cherry liquor & cognac usually served as a 1L Maß
- Almradler: beer & Almdudler (an Austrian herbal soda)
- at an Irish Pub: Irish Car Bomb: Stout & Irish Cream & Whiskey (it's surprisingly good and packs a punch)
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Alcohol-free beer + coke/sprite = Horrorschoppen
Alcohol-free beer + tequila= diarrhea
Look... It's not the tequilas fault you chose bad beer.... 😂
Beer is mid, my favourites are Fireball, Jägermeister, any soju, and Everclear
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Shandies are called Radler in Germany, and many hate them so much that there are well known songs hating against them. To be fair, they are songs you'll only hear on parties, after a few shots and beers, but still.
Watched one of my friends put beer in his cereal on vacation because we didn't have milk. Apparently it was good
Weissbier.
Yo dawg, I heard you like grains...
Shandies are a generally accepted thing, and they’re half lemonade half beer, so this really isn’t some wild, out there concoction.
As a PNW beer snob, I used to make shandies out of the Ranier 30 racks that would be left at our house after a party. I didn't like the beer at the time and mixing it with lemon San Pellegrino made it delightful.
I now drink Ranier proudly when I can since I moved to Chicago. I love this city but I still bleed green, white, and blue.
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Yeah, but complaining about bitter and then adding more bitter to improve it makes no sense. They didn't say they added sweet tea.
Iced tea usually has tons of sugar.
That's sweet tea in northern America. Unsweetened is the default here.
It's sweet tea in the United States.
In Canada "Iced Tea" means "sweet tea" most of the time
Why are people downvoting you? Iced tea in Canada is sweet. Think things like Brisk or Nestea. If you order iced tea at a restaurant here, it's coming out if the same machine as the pop (syrup+water) just not carbonated.
Really? I thought iced tea was unsweetened when I visited Canada, but I could be misremembering.
If you order an iced tea in Canada you are getting Nestea/Brisk like 95% of the time. Both are sweet teas, but are marketed and labelled as "Iced Tea", not "Sweet Tea" - ask our American beverage overlords Coke/Pepsi why
If you are in a cafe, or some other place where the expectation is that they brew their own, then yes, it's generally unsweetened - but it's also usually explicitly labelled as such on the menu so you know whether you are getting brewed tea vs a glass of corn syrup
Brisk makes me so sad. I'll just do a soda instead at that point. I'll do unsweetened iced tea or sweet tea, but not that trash.
Tastes like it was designed by someone who had never had tea in their lives.
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Unsweetened for americans maybe
Ok? Like...it means no sugar. Just tea and ice. It's my default drink. Pure leaf and gold peak make it. 0 calories. Don't know what to tell you?
Alright that's funny.
Doubly so if you have ever had southern sweet tea where you could probably put a stick in it and get rock candy back out.
I've definitely ordered one when I was down south, poured 2/3rds out, and topped it up with water, and it was still comparable to nestea
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On top of that, fruit IPAs are a thing as well. They're not my thing but other people like them so, good for them I guess.
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Isn't that just a shandy? Or is that lemonade
It's lemonade. But lemonade as in Sprite or 7up, not the lemon squash Americans usually mean by the term.
Weiss beer and grapefruit juice is the best.
One time i mixed a chocolate peanutbutter beer with grape juice to make a pbj shandy.
It was equally as gross as the beer was on its own.
Try banana juice. You can thank me later.
I'd seen colaweizen plenty of times when I was in Germany years ago. But then this guy walked up to the bar and asked for a Fantaweizen. That was new for me.
A splash of OJ or Sprite at the top of your beer is a great hangover drink. Irish buddy taught me that.
That sounds like an Archer thing: “I’m afraid if I stop drinking the cumulative hangover will kill me”
You mean morning drink?
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