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Grapefruit flavored german beer8/16/2023 The smell from the bottle is strong and a little skunky. It billed in my PR email as a 50/50 combo of real German hefeweizen & pineapple juice, but the label promises “pineapple flavored drink.” This is a phrase that concerns me, but pineapple is an underrated mixer that typically makes most boozes better. This is the flavor that spurred my sample. Schöfferhofer sent me a lovely bouquet of these beer/soft drink mixes for a taste test. While it doesn’t say “radler” anywhere on the bottle/can, the description makes it clear this is a beer/”flavored drink” mix and, since it checks in at 2.5 percent ABV and is German well, yep, that’s a radler. This left a high bar for Schöfferhofer to clear. Then I went to Scotland and had the same exact damn problem courtesy of whiskey because I. I rode that horse all the way through the rest of my vacation in Germany. This was a wonderful decision, as the helles/lemon-lime tincture not only restored my ability to form (mostly) coherent sentences but also created a calm port inside a stormy stomach tossed by marzens and a diet made up entirely of sausage, sauerkraut, and doner kebab. My brain, polluted by a mother who’d grown up poor and simultaneously respecting the restorative “hair of the dog” wisdom passed down to me by an older cousin who only drank liquor from plastic bottles, opted for these hybrids in hopes of nursing my body back to half-speed. Roughly six days in and in desperate need of hydration, I turned to the half-beer, half-soda mix that’s roughly one Euro more per liter than a Diet Coke on its own. This left me sorely lacking in radler knowledge, however, until I made the trip out to Munich for Oktoberfest. I remain bitter that for several years I could get an orange shandy (terrible) but couldn’t find Sunset Wheat anywhere (it is, fortunately, coming back this fall). What started out with lemon has now expanded to roughly a dozen flavors, of which maybe three are any good. This is thanks largely to the constant presence of Leinenkugel’s flagship beer in the Badger State. Living in Wisconsin has made me intimately familiar with shandies, the beer-lemonade (or other fruit-based beverage) mix that permeates the summer. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Previously, we’ve folded these in to our betting guides, whether that’s been for the NFL slate or a bizarrely successful run through the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. 2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival (disneyfoodie.Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series.You’ll find all you need to make your own Oktoberfest at home. Bring a cooler if you’re coming from a fair distance, you are sure to find lots of meat and cheese to take home. The market serves up some great sandwiches, in fact the menu is essentially the greatest hits list from the restaurant that started it all, Willow Tree Cafe. If you do make a special trip down to Sanford to visit the Magnolia Square Market come hungry. And if you’re really into this stuff, you can buy it by the case! In fact, a 6 pack costs just $1.50 more than one draft of this good stuff at Epcot Food and Wine Festival. However, I am glad that all I need to do is drive up the road to Sanford to get my hands on this grapefruit wheat beer. I will certainly make quite a few appearances this year. The first two weeks of Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival are always slammed. This year the grapefruit goody has returned and with this year’s festival just underway the tweets and instagrams of the lovely orange colored beer have hit the airways. And I came across the beloved Schofferhofer Grapefruit Hefeweizen which made its USA debut at last year’s Epcot Food and Wine Festival. The main attraction for many visitors is the massive selection of German beers and wines. I made my first visit to the Market today and discovered amazing German groceries including pickles, cookies, candies, spatzle, paprika potato chips, cheese, jams, and beautiful selection of meats. The Magnolia Square Market is brought to you by the same folks as the famous Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Cafe. In fact, I don’t have to journey to Epcot to enjoy authentic world flavors, especially German food and groceries. Sure my commute to work is a pain in the rear, but on the weekends I get to enjoy all the wonderful things that are offered here, away from all the tourist attractions. There are many reasons I love living in Seminole County.
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