Radler

[hondo]

"a blend of beer and lemon"
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Drinks-Brands-News/Heineken-launches-a-lower-alcohol-Foster-s

[NickDavies]

It's shandy ffs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radler

[Farway]

It's shandy ffs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radler

Yep, one born every minute, never underestimate the stupidity of the populace, a bit more dilution & it could be legally sold outside school gates

[london calling]

recently Ales and Tales in Twickenham had on a Austrian-RadlerThey told me it was refreshing but were totally unaware that it was a shandy till i mentioned it.

[Aqualung]

These Global Corporate Abominations will try any ridiculous gimmick other than doing the obvious, create a decent beer at a reasonable price that people will drink.

When I used to go out cycling with a group in the late 70s / early 80s they were quite happy to be refreshed by copious amounts of Ridley's bitter in one of their delightful remote country pubs.

[hondo]

carlsberg citrus
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Drinks-Brands-News/Carlsberg-going-for-its-slice-of-the-lower-abv-beer-market

[Aqualung]

The marketing idiot claims that this is a response to "consumer trends" presumably as measured by someone from er, a marketing department. The cretin carries on to say that the lower strength beer category is growing 50% year on year. That's because the Global Corporate Abominations that produce this rubbish keep watering it down!

Obviously the choice of 2.8% ABV is purely a coincidence and bears no relation to the fact that this is the ABV where lower duty rates kick in, just like the coincidence with new 2.8% ABV beers being produced by Marstons and Greene King together with Lee's bottled Mild being knocked down to er, 2.8%.

[NickDavies]

Obviously the choice of 2.8% ABV is purely a coincidence and bears no relation to the fact that this is the ABV where lower duty rates kick in, just like the coincidence with new 2.8% ABV beers being produced by Marstons and Greene King together with Lee's bottled Mild being knocked down to er, 2.8%.

Some of them are OK. Welton's Pridejoy (http://www.weltonsbeer.co.uk/index.php/our-beers/cask-ales) is a good example: very tasty, drinks above its weight and and doesn't have that bloating effect from all the sugar in shandy and soft drinks. Ideal if you are driving.

I've a feeling the lager companies have to make them as shandies to get any taste at all into what is already an insipid product. To get any taste at all into lager it needs to be around 5% - it needs the body from the alcohol - but that brings problems in the wrong hands, hence Wifebeater's reputation. It's bloody awful when watered down to 3.8% or so like Calsberg in the UK. They haven't a hope in hell of making a drinkable 2.8% lager.

[Aqualung]

Some of them are OK. Welton's Pridejoy (http://www.weltonsbeer.co.uk/index.php/our-beers/cask-ales) is a good example: very tasty, drinks above its weight and and doesn't have that bloating effect from all the sugar in shandy and soft drinks. Ideal if you are driving.

I've had a few Welton's beers and to me they seem to be a very good brewery.
I bet the Marstons and Greene King 2.8% ones aren't OK. I think the Lees bottled mild has been ruined. I know Brodie's has done one and was recently threatening a 2.8% mild, but as I don't drive I have no incentive to try it, even more so given that the King William prices are the same for all the Brodie's casks or keykeg, irrespective of strength. Why pay £2.45 for a pint of 2.8% mild when you can have a 12% stout for the same price (sometimes!)?

[Oggwyn Trench]

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[Aqualung]

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Shurely you're not suggesting that the illustrated product is in any way similar to these wonderful new products?

I seem to recall buying Top Deck in Newsagents. Newsagents don't exist any more round my way as they are all "convenience stores" with a front of fresh fruit and veg disguising the fact that they are just there to sell rubbish booze from the Global Corporate Abominations to street drinkers or people who are either lazy or indiscerning.

[NickDavies]

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Which you're not allowed to drink if you're a Leicester rozzer (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1135722/Police-ordered-stop-drinking-Shandy-Bass-soft-drink-case-public-smell-alcohol-breath.html).

I remember years ago hearing a typically pompous debate with the prohibitionists insisting youngsters should be banned from buying it because there were outbreaks of kids trying to get pissed on the stuff. I think the main concern though was from teachers having to cope with ten year old boys projectile vomiting beer flavoured lemonade. Not a pretty sight.

[Farway]

And another competitor, part of the five a day?

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