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[oxfordstu]

Last month a few friends and I stumbled upon a German beer hall. We thought, finally! Beer that doesn't taste like shit! So we order a few and notice that the taste is very very sweet. We bring the guy over and he tells us that they put lemonade in the beer. Nasty. But we figured that maybe it was just a thing they do to German beer over here.
So last week, we walk into a new pub near PNU and notice they have Pale Ale on tap. We try a sample, and.....again! Lemonade in the beer? What the hell is up with this? Do Koreans have to ruin the taste of decent beer to make their own swill seem not as bad? Why would anyone put lemonade in beer? I've been here long enough to stop asking why about certain things, but........WHY????

[R-Seoul]

What I always suspected. Korea is a nation of Shandy drinkers...

[spliff]

probably for the profit...I would have told them to refund my money as I was paying for beer not lemonade and never returned.

[kigolo1881]

It's called a "Radler", intended to have only half of the alcohol for people who rode on bycicles (Radl') to the Biergarten.
Consider it the 'light' beer so cyclist dont get too drunk.

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

A good Radler is really refreshing on a hot day or after doing some hard work. But as for getting plastered on it, well, you might as well be hitting alcopops and expect the deadly sugar overload hangover the next morning.

You make it sound like all the beer they sell at this German Beer hall is Radler, that surely can't be right.

[oxfordstu]

[jaganath69]

Yeah, it's what we commonwealth types call lemonade, you NA fellas would know it as sprite or 7-up or cider over here. It's not as bad as it sounds, but best made with cheap lager as polluting good beer is a sin that should be punished with 50 lashes over the foreskin with a wet bootlace.

[twg]

[Fishead soup]

In the U.K. lemonade is basically 7 up. Mixing beer with 7-up is called
a Shandy. You can also get Lager and Lime which in basically a full pink with a twist of lime juice.

In Korea 7- up in called cider. In the U.K cider is an apple wine. I was in England in 1984 it was not uncommon to see punk rockers with mohawks
drinking large bottles of cider on the street.

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

[oxfordstu]

Don't remember the names. There were 6 different German beers to choose from, and 3 of them had lemonade added to them.

[jaganath69]

[nobbyken]

[chasmmi]

I had the flip side experience of that because I worked in my university bar.

Due to the large proportion of East Asians at my university in London, it was a semi regualr occurence for a Japanese or Korean person to order a cider and then not be happy when they get given some alcoholic apple stuff

[swetepete]

The best mixed beer drink is the deadly Snakebite: 2 parts beer to one part alcoholic cider. Sweet, potent, and acidic, it gets people drunk very fast. Apparently (and I don't exactly have this on the highest authority, but having been drunk on the stuff I can believe it--perhaps you Brits could confirm or refute?) some pubs in England refuse to snakebites because they makes aggro-types even more violence-bound than they already.