If there’s one thing I miss during a weekend brunch it’s a good lemon or grapefruit radler. Especially when traveling, or visiting a European-inspired town or restaurant, there’s nothing like the citrus zest of a light radler to refresh your thinking after a long work week.
I hadn’t seen any NA radlers before I saw a dusty sixer of German Paulaner Weizen-Radler at my local BevMo and was certain somebody had put it in the nonalcohol section by mistake.
Paulaner has been crafting Euro brews since 1634 (142 years before the U.S. was even born), so I figured they were stuck in their old school ways and wouldn’t be making #nonalcoholic nearbeers.
Well, to my delight, I was wrong. Turns out Europe has been more progressive than a lot of U.S. breweries and jumped on the NA bandwagon sooner than a lot of American brands.
And this hef doesn’t disappoint.
With Herkules hops, and wheat and Pilsner or Munich malts, this brew is straight out of Octoberfest. And because of the natural ingredients and sediment inside, each bottle continues to evolve and gain flavor after it leaves the brewery, so the citrus notes and other ingredients help mask the flavor lost from the NA process. In fact, when you taste it, you’ll double take the bottle to make sure it’s NA. It tastes that much like a traditional radler.
And you can rest assured the quality will be there, given Paulaner’s long standing history of cranking out classic German brews. In fact, Paulaner is one of only six breweries still pouring suds at the Oktoberfest in Munich, and the annual Salvator tasting and Politiker Derblecken.
So enjoy this citrus twist on an old school classic. It doesn’t get much MuNAich than this!
Cheers! 🍻 🍋 🍺
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FRUIT OR GERMAN-STYLE NA BEER? Share below so we can try!
