Radler - New Best Drink Ever For A Long Hot Summer?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Never heard the oddly-weird Radler name before the start of the month, but glugged many of these of a scorchio summer's day in Crete last week

OK, it's a woosie 2% lager & cloudy lemon mix that you'd normally spurn as you would a rabid dog, but I tell's thee it don't half hit the spot in the midday sun. Saw an ad in the paper today for the same Radler thing, made by Fosters of all people, so maybe its been there all along. Or maybe not. Anybody else partial to a drop o' the weak stuff?

 

[Leighgull]

Irons gear.

 

[Smithy]

Radler has always been a popular drink on the continent.

 

[Chris_Highwind]

Not tried it yet but tempted to give it a go, I think Fosters only started it this summer!

 

[AIT76]

Take away the sexed up foreign name and see it for what it is : lager shandy!

 

[RexCathedra]

Consumed by the Germans and Austrians in prodigious quantities, my daughter in Berlin responsible for her share and a bit....also Diesel, a beer with Coke

 

[albion534]

Meh, don't drink if you can't handle the real stuff

 

[dougdeep]

I'm starting to worry about you Tom, you go from bitter to Guinness to cider then to alcopops. It'll be ginger beer next.

 

[Titanic]

in France a panache, in England a lager shandy... and very nice on a blistering hot day too!

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Fosters radler has only been out for the last 3/4 months.

 

[Harry H]

A Spanish secret for years.
Lager and Fanta lemon.
A nice drink for the afternoon if you want to make it through the evening.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I'm starting to worry about you Tom, you go from bitter to Guinness to cider then to alcopops. It'll be ginger beer next.

Wash your mouth out with Westons dougdeep!

 

[whitelion]

To be honest I really cannot drink an alcoholic drink less than 5%...I'd rather drink orange squash or a cup of tea!!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Never heard the oddly-weird Radler name before the start of the month, but glugged many of these of a scorchio summer's day in Crete last week

OK, it's a woosie 2% lager & cloudy lemon mix that you'd normally spurn as you would a rabid dog, but I tell's thee it don't half hit the spot in the midday sun. Saw an ad in the paper today for the same Radler thing, made by Fosters of all people, so maybe its been there all along. Or maybe not. Anybody else partial to a drop o' the weak stuff?

It's like the last 80 years or so never happened

 

[sydney]

I'm starting to worry about you Tom, you go from bitter to Guinness to cider then to alcopops. It'll be ginger beer next.

stones alcoholic ginger beer is lush with loads of ice and it's a full strength tipple which can potentially cause tipsyness.

 

[rouseytastic]

Love the stuff. Went to the shop last night to get more and they were sold out. Had to buy normal lager instead!! Body went in to shock!

 

[severnside gull]

Never heard the oddly-weird Radler name before the start of the month, but glugged many of these of a scorchio summer's day in Crete last week

OK, it's a woosie 2% lager & cloudy lemon mix that you'd normally spurn as you would a rabid dog, but I tell's thee it don't half hit the spot in the midday sun. Saw an ad in the paper today for the same Radler thing, made by Fosters of all people, so maybe its been there all along. Or maybe not. Anybody else partial to a drop o' the weak stuff?

Just back from hols where I have taken to Hoegaarten Rose beer - an exceedingly refreshing blend of wheatbeer and fruit!
Never seen it for sale in UK but going to get looking!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Meh, don't drink if you can't handle the real stuff

Meh, eases the pain of the raki the night before

 

[albion534]

Meh, eases the pain of the raki the night before

Meh.....fair play x

 

[fataddick]

As others have stated, radler is just the German word for shandy. More interesting is diesel, which is lager mixed with cola (the stuff in cans is 2 parts 6% lager to 1 part cola, so an eminently quaffable 4% overall). Try a half of it in a pub some time, it's surprisingly nice, certainly nicer than the national drink of the Basque Country, which is a mixture of cheap red wine and flat coke.