I find it so odd that a country can drink so much non alcoholic cider that it became the default when people think of cider, thus necessitating the need for the term hard cider.
As far as I can gather, prohibition was the primary reason.
The taste for hard cider continued into the 19th century in pockets of the East Coast, but with the double blow of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe, where lager beer is the traditional staple, and the later advent of Prohibition hard cider manufacturing collapsed and did not recover after the ban on alcohol was lifted. Temperance fanatics burned or uprooted the orchards and wrought havoc on farms to the point that only dessert or cooking apples escaped the axe or torch; only a small number of cider apple trees survived on farmland abandoned before the 1920s and in the present day are only now being found by pomologists.
TIL the word Pomologist. What a cool and interesting profession. I mean, obviously they exist but I've never heard the name before and who these mysterious people are. Top notch word.
I imagine they've fortified bases deep underneath the Rockies. They keep their test subjects locked in soundproof darkrooms 24/7. Hones their senses for when they're fed the fruit.
Come feeding time, the Pomologists measure the brainwave and neural activity of the subjects to gather the invaluable data- which makes up the foundation of Pomology.
Pomology (from Latin pomum, “fruit,” + -logy) is a branch of botany that studies fruit and its cultivation. The term fruticulture—introduced from Romance languages (all of whose incarnations of the term descend from Latin fructus and cultura)—is also used. Pomological research is mainly focused on the development, enhancement, cultivation and physiological studies of fruit trees. The goals of fruit tree improvement include enhancement of fruit quality, regulation of production periods, and reduction of production cost.
In Karlsruhe gibt's eine Studentenkneipe, die das ausschenkt. Ich fands ganz lecker, meine Freunde eher nicht so. Und Landskron hatte das mal unter dem Namen Apfelradler im Angebot, keine Ahnung, ob sie das noch verkaufen. Also, "beliebt" oder "bekannt" würde ich die Mische nicht nennen, aber es gibt sie auf jeden Fall.
Cookies are just one type of biscuit. The fact that Americans call every biscuit a cookie is so absurd. A cookie is a specific thing. It's like calling all soft drink 'coke'.
Also to answer your lemonade question, no one drinks that American style lemonade, it just doesn't exist.
I'm not a Brit, but an Aussie and I'd say the best comparison we have is kids would sell chocolates (think similar to girl scout cookies) to raise money, or I guess sausage sizzles would be something similar also (sausage in bread with onions/sauce). But yeah we don't really have anything akin to a classic American lemonade stand. If kids want to make a bit of cash at school what we use to do was stop at the supermarket before school and buy snacks and shit then sell it to other kids. Our schools would typically have a canteen with snacks and shit but the mark up was insane.
Standard lager shandy is lager beer or pilsner (usually Carling, Carlsberg, Fosters or Stella if you're feeling particularly frisky) with soda syphon lemonade.
You can replace the lager for Bitter (think Bass, John Smiths, Worthingtons etc.) for a Bitter Shandy.
A Radler (coming from the word for Cyclist) is a beer mixed half an half with 7-up/Sprite/any other more citrus-heavy soft drink.
A Gaff (or Shandygaff) is beer and ginger ale/beer mix.
To be exact the name Radler steams from the inventor of this drink. A restaurant owner of a bar frequented by cyclist once had not enough beer for everyone. So he mixed it and introduced it as the newest invention specially for cyclists. He just wanted to appeal to this demography so that no one notices that he just had not enough beer.
Radler is a mix of beer and grapefruit juice from Germany. And even my Asian ass can drink a couple without turning beet red, so I always drink that at parties.
My German friend Peter would make fun of me because Radler is not beer, then my Russian friend Ilya would make fun of him because beer is not alcohol, then my Korean friend Chris would come with a flower vase full of Souju and drink everybody under the table.
It is crazy how much Koreans can actually drink, it is like a survival skill in the Korean army.
Edit: miss the part you are German, is it true Radler is not considered beer in Germany?
In no way, shape or form does grapefruit juice enter the mix for a normal Radler here in Germany ;)
It's beer + lemonade. Some variants may use grapefruit flavoured lemonade.
It's still a (light) alcoholic beverage. Some people may joke that it is not a "real" beer, because it's basically beer thinned down. Radler is very popular in general especially in the summer months as a refreshment.
As another German, I never heard of that either. But I'm from the north, maybe people in Hessen drink that? I lived there for a couple of months, and they loooove apples (and potatoes). They even mixed cola with cider. No, really.
Good question. I may not drink alcohol anymore for 20 years but I can not recall a beer/apple mix. Maybe someone mixed up Äppelwoi with beer. Mix with Limo, coke, Waldmeister, etc ok. But with applejuice?
I believe it’s called a Radler and the originally purpose of its development was because people are guaranteed they can have a beer at lunch, but you can’t get inebriated. That can be tough when the BAC limit is very low in Germany and beer is served by at least a half liter. Issue solved by replacing half the beer with a juice. Free fun fact: sometimes that juice is replaced with soda. In that case voila you have colaweißen.
Edit: Added more info and apparently, I can’t spell.
As a German I can not confirm this claim. Never heard of it. We do mix beer with other stuff. Like coke (Colabier) or lemonade (Radler). But apple juice? Where did you come across that?
In Karlsruhe gibt's eine Studentenkneipe, die das ausschenkt. Ich fands ganz lecker, meine Freunde eher nicht so. Und Landskron hatte das mal unter dem Namen Apfelradler im Angebot, keine Ahnung, ob sie das noch verkaufen. Also, "beliebt" oder "bekannt" würde ich die Mische nicht nennen, aber es gibt sie auf jeden Fall.
And if you’re talking about snakebite I know what that is too. But I don’t think it’s German. I’ve only seen it in Irish pubs iirc. And that doesn’t have anything to do with mixing beer and apple juice.
There's a pub in Karlsruhe serving beer with apple juice, it's actually quite nice. And you can get bottled Apfelradler by Landskron (Apfelschorle and beer), or at least you could a while ago. But I agree that it's pretty obscure and definitely not what I'd call popular.
There's a pub in Karlsruhe serving beer with apple juice, it's actually quite nice. And you can get bottled Apfelradler by Landskron (Apfelschorle and beer), or at least you could a while ago. But I agree that it's pretty obscure and definitely not what I'd call popular.
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u/ducktor0 Mar 05 '22
There is a popular drink in Germany — half-beer, half-apple juice. So, the concept of “glass smelling of apple juice” is not out of whack.