Topic: Mint beer

[chonk]

Found this recipe in some old indian cookbook (The Indian Cookery Book from circa 1900).

It says: "Put some bruised fresh-gathered mint-leaves into a large tankard, and pour over them a bottle of beer well iced, and a soda-water bottle of sparkling lemonade, also well iced; or use bottled mint-juice if the beer and lemonade have not been iced, and stir in a quarter of a pound of crushed ice."

Will try this soon, using either some Kingfisher or Namaste beer. Pretty sure I have some recipe for indian lemonade somewhere too.

Beer plus lemonade is quite popular in Germany (especially in the warmer months) and called "Radler".

[Peripatetic Phil]

Beer plus lemonade is quite popular in Germany (especially in the warmer months) and called "Radler".

Indeed.  I've always assumed that that is because it is a drink that cyclists (Radfahrer / Radfahrerinnen) favour, but I may of course be completely mistaken.

[chonk]

Yes, I think that's most certainly true. There's a beergarden owner who claims to have invented it as he was running out of beer while serving dozens of cyclists on a sunny day in Munich. But the drink was presumably served and consumed in cyclist clubs before.

[chonk]

Here's some additional recipe for indian lemonade, originally published in "My Indian Kitchen" (the one by Hari Nayak).

500ml sparkling water or club soda
500ml water
300g sugar
250ml lime or lemon juice

Combine all the ingredients in some large container or pitcher. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Serve in 250ml glasses filled with ice.

Will try this out next weekend and report back.

[Peripatetic Phil]

It would be interesting to compare it with Waitrose cloudy lemonade, which I adore almost as much as their ruby red grapefruit drink.  Waitrose are, as far as I can tell, the last supermarket to carry full-sugar cloudy lemonade rather than the disgusting artificial-sweetener version.

[livo]

I like lemonade. I like mint. Why would anybody put them in beer?

However, one thing learnt from expat poms, many years ago is ginger beer and milk.

[Peripatetic Phil]

However, one thing learnt from expat poms, many years ago is ginger beer and milk.

A glass of each, one in the left hand and one in the right ?

[chonk]

I like lemonade. I like mint. Why would anybody put them in beer?

Haha, yes. I guess it seems strange but we Germans already drink beer with lemonade and I already tried lemonade with mint, made by some dutch company which I can't recall right now. So I think this might actually work.