Destroy the Leinenkugel Brewery Now!

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In all honesty, though we revere the Germans for their harsh stance on adjuncts in beer, the major breweries there have almost all started producing radlers, which are actually kinda refreshing on a hot summer day. (/secrets) They aren't very widely available in the US though.

The Munich breweries have stayed strong and resisted this trend. I will shed a few tears if I ever see a Paulaner Radler on the shelves.

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Popeye_Card wrote:In all honesty, though we revere the Germans for their harsh stance on adjuncts in beer, the major breweries there have almost all started producing radlers, which are actually kinda refreshing on a hot summer day. (/secrets) They aren't very widely available in the US though.

The Munich breweries have stayed strong and resisted this trend. I will shed a few tears if I ever see a Paulaner Radler on the shelves.
Radlers are definitely refreshing on a summer day. I won't complain about them.

On a completely unrelated note, I was in the LA area this past weekend and at a divey Mexican joint saw a beer on the menu that I didn't recognize, "Caguama," so I ordered that. To my surprise a GIANT bottle of Tecate was brought out. Turns out caguama is the popular way to refer to 940ml bottles of beer, so it was a nice surprise.

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Popeye_Card wrote:In all honesty, though we revere the Germans for their harsh stance on adjuncts in beer, the major breweries there have almost all started producing radlers, which are actually kinda refreshing on a hot summer day. (/secrets) They aren't very widely available in the US though.

The Munich breweries have stayed strong and resisted this trend. I will shed a few tears if I ever see a Paulaner Radler on the shelves.
The bier gartens in Munich serve a lot of these....and another type called Russians, but not in bottles. They mix them in the huge steins. I think Russians are weiss bier and lemon soda? A bier garten here in the ATL area (owned by a German couple) has the radler in bottles. My husband was stunned....he didn't know such a thing existed. I guess I've pretty much Americanized him.....!

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Simbagal23 wrote:A bier garten here in the ATL area (owned by a German couple)
Where is that at? Im gona be in ATL for the Cards series.

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Diddy wrote:
Simbagal23 wrote:A bier garten here in the ATL area (owned by a German couple)
Where is that at? Im gona be in ATL for the Cards series.
We're going to at least one of the games, too. It's called Kurt's Restaurant and Vreny's Biergarten, in Duluth. Probably about a 40 minute drive from downtown (depending on traffic). PM me and let me know where you are staying (downtown, Buckhead, etc.) and I can give you a better idea. We really enjoyed this bier garten....my husband is from Germany, so he almost felt as though he were back home!

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