Fosters Radler - alcohol free - I'm struggling with this whole concept.

[sam86]

When I drive to a BBQ at someones house, I will often drink a few shandies. This would normally consist of a lovely lager and a bottle of lemonade. I'll pop to the kitchen, or if I'm lucky the BBQ organiser will, and make a nice chilled shandy in a lovely pint glass.

When I drive to a BBQ that is say on the beach, I don't want to be taking lager and a bottle of lemonade, pouring it myself and drinking from a plastic cup. This is where Foster's Radler comes in.

Fosters Radler, chilled, on a hot day, is lush. Fact.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Can someone please help me out.

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1) Nobody really likes Fosters.

2) Why then mix it with squash.
Foster’s Radler 2.0% is a refreshing mixed drink that combines 60 per cent citrus-flavoured soft drink with 40 per cent Foster’s lager. The most refreshing option of this summer's new drinks, the radler was developed especially to please Finnish taste buds. The beverage’s alcohol content is 2%.

c) After producing a 2% monstrosity why then feel the need to go alcohol free.

4) Who the hell buys this stuff.




Oh and Le Tour starts again tomorrow, so just humour me, I'll be gone soon.

News reached me this weekend that radler was invented for cyclists. so it's your fault.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jul/31/craft-beer-shandy-five-recipes

Wonder what [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] thinks of this all? CRAFT SHANDY?

 

[Stat Brother]

News reached me this weekend that radler was invented for cyclists. so it's your fault.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jul/31/craft-beer-shandy-five-recipes

Wonder what [MENTION=409]Herr Tubthumper[/MENTION] thinks of this all? CRAFT SHANDY?

That'll be German cyclists, they are a breed apart.

I think you'll find a true Brit bicyclist likes nothing more than the rotting aroma of a flagon of Old Grumble Belly, on a hot summers day.

 

[Superphil]

Alcohol free lager I actually get. It's been around years, the first was Kaliber (sp?) which my dad sometimes drank if he had to drive home from a gig. I vaguely remember it not quite tasting the same.

It's the Radler bit I don't get. Take something that tastes awful and pour something that tastes awful in to it. Er, no.

There was something called Dansk I think, came out before Kaliber, it was 0.5% alcohol or something, whereas Kaliber was 0% alcohol, so Billy Connoly told us in the adverts.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Mate's getting over a serious heart operation and has to go a bit easy on the alcohol. We went in the Master Mariner in the Marina one very hot day a couple of weeks back and I suggested a Radler. So we asked for one. Gormless bar manager gave us a lecture on how he'd ordered in a case of Radler last November and it took him six months to sell, so he certainly wasn't going to get any more in. The concept of it being a refreshing summer drink was just WHOOSH!

 

[fataddick]

i think they list it as 0.01% as there maybe residue alcohol. its marked as beer, so comes under the law as over 18 only, but bizarrley you can buy shandy with 0.5% ABV from 16.

You can buy cans of shandy like Ben Shaws etc (marked as less than 0.5% alcohol) at any age, as they are categorised as a soft drink. There was some uproar in the papers recently when a primary school suspended a child for drinking it.

 

[atfc village]

There was something called Dansk I think, came out before Kaliber, it was 0.5% alcohol or something, whereas Kaliber was 0% alcohol, so Billy Connoly told us in the adverts.

Don't forget Barbican advertised by Lawrie Mcmenemy.
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[willyfantastic]

i like them - well tasty, especially in this weather

didnt realise they had alcohol free - will give them a go though

 

[Brixtaan]

My favourite tipple currently! Absolutely delicious. I accidently bought the lime and ginger version and after the initial shock grew to like it too.

 

[Brighton TID]

Can someone please help me out.

View attachment 56268

1) Nobody really likes Fosters.

2) Why then mix it with squash.
Foster’s Radler 2.0% is a refreshing mixed drink that combines 60 per cent citrus-flavoured soft drink with 40 per cent Foster’s lager. The most refreshing option of this summer's new drinks, the radler was developed especially to please Finnish taste buds. The beverage’s alcohol content is 2%.

c) After producing a 2% monstrosity why then feel the need to go alcohol free.

4) Who the hell buys this stuff.




Oh and Le Tour starts again tomorrow, so just humour me, I'll be gone soon.

I am frankly angered by this concept also. Confirms my theory that we have, for quite a while now, been producing a new breed of complete pussy holes who like to justify drinking this sort of stuff. A bit like caffiene free coffee. Ban it now from GREAT (GREAT) Britain.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I am frankly angered by this concept also. Confirms my theory that we have, for quite a while now, been producing a new breed of complete pussy holes who like to justify drinking this sort of stuff. A bit like caffiene free coffee. Ban it now from GREAT (GREAT) Britain.

Reminds me of the guy who showed up at my regular morning coffee van one morning.

Bloke: Decaff skinny latte please.
Vendor (after perfect comic timing pause) No sugar I presume....

He's not been back.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Reminds me of the guy who showed up at my regular morning coffee van one morning.

Bloke: Decaff skinny latte please.
Vendor (after perfect comic timing pause) No sugar I presume....

He's not been back.

Rather similar to ordering a diet coke in McDonald's.