I’ll go with a “Pink Elephant”
Shandies are a generally accepted thing, and they’re half lemonade half beer, so this really isn’t some wild, out there concoction.
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.
Yeah, but complaining about bitter and then adding more bitter to improve it makes no sense. They didn’t say they added sweet tea.
In the north of France, there’s a thing sold that’s “beer bitter” which is a bitter alcohol specifically for adding to beer (Picon being the most common one).
The true purpose is probably mostly to add alcohol though. But it does taste nice.
That probably isn’t marketed to people that think beer is too bitter already.
Iced tea usually has tons of sugar.
That’s going to be regional. In the US iced tea is unsweetened. Sweet tea is the one with tons of sugar, or if you’re in the south they might just call it tea. In my travels in the US it’s pretty understood that “iced tea” is unsweetened.
I mean if Nestlé Iced Tea is considered “unsweetened” as I’ve read down in the comment chain, then we don’t have sweet tea here at all lol
Unless you’re in the southern US, you probably don’t.
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.
Unsweetened for americans maybe
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.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?
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
Because those aren’t sweet teas… At least not as sweet as actual sweet tea in the south.
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.
Boa! Das heißt „Radler”.
Alsterwasser, du Plebejer.
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.
Oh no does that mean I’m going to start dragging rhinegeist to the west coast? Ok probably and my wife will put chili on spaghetti there too
Gotta represent.
That makes me think of this video
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.
A splash of OJ or Sprite at the top of your beer is a great hangover drink. Irish buddy taught me that.
You mean morning drink?
A fellow man of culture I see
That sounds like an Archer thing: “I’m afraid if I stop drinking the cumulative hangover will kill me”
The fuck I thought I got onto Lemmy for a second, I DO THAT. LİPTON PEACH İCE TEA WTİH BEER
I really didn’t expect this comment section to make me actually want to try it…
it makes beer far better than what it is usually, if it wasn’t for the after taste I would consistently drink it
(After taste of beer. I hate the aftertaste of beer.)
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.
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.
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.
In Taiwan we put ice in our beer and like it.
That was one of my very first “sentences” in mandarin I learned when I was living there. : “不要冰塊”
You know I’m in favor of our (American) military defense of Taiwan against the CCP, but…
China also does the same practice. Lol
This is actually basically how a lot of “hard iced tea” and “hard seltzer/wine coolers” type drinks are made. It’s just the most flavorless piss beer with flavors added because that’s cheaper than adding grain alcohol to thinks to spike it cleanly.
Wine coolers usually use the most flavorless piss wine rather than beer but yes.
You’ve heard of the cocktail, now introducing the pussytail.
Some of those things have the same or even more ABV than hard liquor. Pussytail my ass.
I’m gonna have to ask you to show your work.
Hard liquor such as gin, rum, vodka or whiskey are usually bottled somewhere between 80 and 120 proof, or 40 to 60 percent ABV. Can you show me a wine cooler, malt liquor, hard soda or similar product that breaks even 10% ABV? Most beer is somewhere between 3 and 6% ABV.
Just off the top of my head: Four Loko.
Shit is usually between 14% and 25% ABV ever since they took the caffeine out.
And there is even stronger brands I’ve seen but never tried.
Alcohol production licensing laws probably play a larger role than the cost of ethanol.
Radler is no Bier!
meh there’s similar popular stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_(cocktail)
This would be an Arnold O’Palmer?
I want to try it now!
Anime reaction, therefore unfunny
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.
