Shandy Bass

[Fab Foodie]

In a thread a few days ago, Shandy Bass was mentioned (along with it's poorer cousin - Top Deck). Well in Sainsbury on Saturday a 2L bottle caught my eye nestling on the top shelf, surprised to see it still existed I bought some for me and the lad.

After something like a 30+ year abscence in my life here goes ....

 

[addictfreak]

Enjoy.

Im just about to open the pear cider

 

[Wigsie]

Top Deck the poorer cousin?

Controversial!!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ex-ca-use me, so much for the abstemiousness then. That stuff's 0.5% abv. you old soak, disgraceful!!!

Just poured a Maredsous Tripel meself!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Top Deck the poorer cousin?

Controversial!!!

Yeah, Top Deck was the trendy young pretender, but Shandy Bass was the original!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ex-ca-use me, so much for the abstemiousness then. That stuff's 0.5% abv. you old soak, disgraceful!!!

Just poured a Maredsous Tripel meself!

Yeah, just gloat-on will ya!

 

[Arch]

Shandy - truly a drink for cyclists. No really, apparently it was invented by a German bar owner as something light and refreshing for the new craze of cyclists who turned up at his country inn. Hence the German name for it - Radler (Rad being 'wheel' or bicycle)

 

[Intelligenthamster]

As a frequent visitor to Germany I can confirm that- the word Radler can also means cyclist in German. If you order a Radler over there you will get a lager-shandy, 50:50. On a hot day it really hits the spot even if you usually hate lager (both Mr Hamster and I are real ale drinkers).

Managed to drag him over there for a cycling long weekend two years ago, we both loved it but he ended up with a very sore backside

 

[Wigsie]

Yeah, Top Deck was the trendy young pretender, but Shandy Bass was the original!

Nonsense, it was the real deal! not just lemonade but with a lime option too! It was the cornerstone of the metrosexual generation!

Young pretender indeed!

 

[Intelligenthamster]

My fave as a kid was the cider version of Top Deck... ohhh yeah.

 

[Arch]

As a frequent visitor to Germany I can confirm that- the word Radler can also means cyclist in German. If you order a Radler over there you will get a lager-shandy, 50:50. On a hot day it really hits the spot even if you usually hate lager (both Mr Hamster and I are real ale drinkers).

Managed to drag him over there for a cycling long weekend two years ago, we both loved it but he ended up with a very sore backside

What you got up to in private is your affair...

I went to the Spezi show last year and it was really hot and on the Sunday we got a spin along the Rhine path to a little cafe where I had Radler and bratwurst and chips - really felt I was entering into the spirit of it! And the Radler was indeed nectar!

 

[Intelligenthamster]

What you got up to in private is your affair...

 

[Fab Foodie]

Nonsense, it was the real deal! not just lemonade but with a lime option too! It was the cornerstone of the metrosexual generation!

Young pretender indeed!

Metrosexual poncey crap.
This was the hard-kids drink where I grew up.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Shandy - truly a drink for cyclists. No really, apparently it was invented by a German bar owner as something light and refreshing for the new craze of cyclists who turned up at his country inn. Hence the German name for it - Radler (Rad being 'wheel' or bicycle)

Well it's amazing what you learn here on CC!

I'm a big fan of Ginger Beer shandys... but as you say, what I get up to in private ....

 

[upsidedown]

The legends of 1970's fizzy pop culture were the Alpine or Corona men delivering chunky glass bottles of dandelion & burdock or cream soda