*Appreciated by cyclists as an isotonic drink replenishing minerals lost in transpiration. These days shandies containing up to 3% alcohol are being replaced more and more by alcohol-free wheat beers containing less sugar and alcohol than shandies.
The weird shandy in question is a mixture of beer and cucumber juice. It is made in Lübbenau, a town south of Berlin in the Spreewald. The region is famous for producing all sorts of cucumbers -- fresh, sour, or salty. Here people speak Sorbian, a Slavic language. While mixing its beer with cucumber juice, the Kirchner brewery reduces the alcohol content of the shandy to a mere 2.1%. Mind you, the creators did refrain from calling their mix Spreewasser.
When I saw Kendall's photo of the green bottle showing a cucumber on a bicycle, it was a must-have, so I ordered a couple of bottles together with another beer mix with cucumber and rhubarb juice. To make a long story short: the Gurken Radler tastes like eingeschlafene Füße (old feet, literally feet that went to sleep). On the other hand, rhubarb juice adds a refined touch to the rose-colored Gurken Radler Rhabarber, and I like it. Prosit.
A private brewery created a soft drink dubbed Tannenliebe (love for fir trees) based on fir shoots. The mix is prepared with essence from fir shoots, water, sugar, Black Forest honey, and citric acid. Red Baron went downtown and bought two bottles of Tannenliebe, which was more expensive than beer. The taste? Disappointing since I had expected more flavor. On the other hand, the soft drink contains only a tiny amount of sugar, and the Abgang (finish or aftertaste) of fir shoots lasts for a couple of hours.
Prosit again.
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