Radler is no Bier!
This would be an Arnold O’Palmer?
Rookie mistake. You use Almdudler for that.
I haven’t tried that but it sounds like a crime towards both beer and almdudler.
Man, I gotta get me some almdudler.
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 would assume that ice tea is more bitter, right? (Obviously depends on how long you let it steep.)
It’s primarily much sweeter due to the shitton of sugar
Only if you add sugar. (Sugar does NOT belong in tea!)
But it is an essential part of ice tea. Hot tea can be good with or without sugar, imo. Depends on the tea and my mood.
Tea does not need sugar, whether hot or iced (at least I don’t know anyone irl that puts sugar in tea (actually I just thought of one person but I don’t like them or talk to them much)). Sweetened drinks are extremely unhealthy and there’s probably a reason most places in the US serve unsweetened ice tea.
On hot summer days I sometimes drink 3l of ice tea. That would be extremely bad if it was sweetened.
In my head (as a German), ice tea is almost always store bought like lipton ice tea. You very rarely get anything else anywhere. Restaurants don’t usually serve home made ice tea. It’s a soft drink. When I make myself tea at home, it’s almost always hot. Unsweetened black tea just tastes awful when it’s cold. The hot tea sometimes gets sugar, like when I make myself lemon tea (black tea + lemon juice + sugar), although I do like to use stevia instead of sugar for the same health reasons because I sometimes drink 2-3 pots (1.5l each) a day in winter and that would indeed be a lot of sugar.
When I have ice tea it’s usually a fruity black tea, still no sugar though.
If my (hot) black tea gets too strong (I have a tendency to forget about the strainer) I just add (extra) milk, though that doesn’t sound like it would work for ice tea.
If it’s the USA, then “iced tea” may actually mean “sweet tea” (an American South tradition), which is often prepared something like this:
- bring 1/2 gallon (1.9L) water to a boil
- place 8 large black tea bags in a 1 gallon (3.8L) pitcher
- pour boiling water over the tea bags in the pitcher
- steep 10-15 minutes, then remove tea bags from the pitcher
- add 1 dry cup (220g) granulated sugar
- stir the slurry until sugar is dissolved
- fill the pitcher to the top with ice cubes
- wait 20 minutes for ice to chill and dilute the tea, gently stir again
- serve
It may be a stronger tea, but so much sugar gets added (probably 3x what would be used to sweeten tea served hot) that you typically don’t notice any bitterness.
There’s unsweetened ice tea there though. I don’t understand why that isn’t the default though :(
Shandies are a generally accepted thing, and they’re half lemonade half beer, so this really isn’t some wild, out there concoction.
That makes me think of this video
Boa! Das heißt „Radler”.
Alsterwasser, du Plebejer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’d like to propose a middle ground. As someone who puts effort into avoiding added sugars, it is much more difficult to find unsweetened tea at some chain restaurants or convenience stores.
Being from the North, I’m no authority on Sweet Tea, but I’ve heard that it’s nearly saturated with sugar. If so, that’s not what’s usually available either.
I’ve encountered many a place selling sweetened tea (that may not qualify as proper Sweet Tea), but they didn’t have unsweetened 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.
That and people who are already too drunk to care.
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.
Isn’t that just a shandy? Or is that lemonade
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.
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.
Try banana juice. You can thank me later.
It’s lemonade. But lemonade as in Sprite or 7up, not the lemon squash Americans usually mean by the term.
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.
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”
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?
A fellow man of culture I see
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.
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.
meh there’s similar popular stuff https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_(cocktail)
Watched one of my friends put beer in his cereal on vacation because we didn’t have milk. Apparently it was good
Yo dawg, I heard you like grains…
Weissbier.
I want to try it now!
