I drank Stiegl the rest of the night, and the 2.0 percent ABV was a pleasant bonus. It was cold, of course, but there was a tart and refreshing grapefruit burst, along with a clean, smooth lager beer experience. The grapefruit aroma was apparent, but so was the beer-I could smell clean malt, not just fruit. “The taproom was jumping and had no air-conditioning, so cold beer was the way to go.” The brand manager got a glass full of some hazy, pale yellow-white beverage. The taproom was jumping and had no air-conditioning, so cold beer was the way to go. I’d spent the day at the Black Velvet distillery, and after dinner I went out with some of the brand’s crew for beers. That is until a fiercely hot night eight years ago in southern Alberta, when I had my first Stiegl Radler. It was also something that didn’t appeal to me. I’d heard of radlers, but always as something they did in Germany. She gives no explanation of r adlermasse (the plural of radlermass), which certainly indicates that she was sure her readers would know this drink. The memoir, Erinnerungen einer Überflüssigen ( Remembrances of an Unwanted One), was published in 1912, which clearly predates Kugler’s 1922 claim. In fact, a memoir by Lena Christ, a writer who worked in a Munich restaurant in 19, notes not only was beer served, but also all kinds of lemonades, carbonated water, schorlemorle (wine mixed with sparkling water or apple juice) and radlermasse. Add into that the laughable idea that thousands of German cyclists would happily acquiesce to their beer being unexpectedly cut with lemonade or that a German who went to the expense of building a bike trail specifically to bring cyclists to his beer garden would actually run out of beer on a summer day.It’s no wonder that many suspect that Kugler himself spread the story as a sales pitch. There is an unusual amount of detail for a word origin: the innkeeper’s full name, the exact month and location of the “invention,” and even the original formula of beer to soda. ![]() Amateur word sleuths will note the telltale signs of bullshit here.
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