I drink my beer with a spot of lemonade in the top...

[Big Gus]

..I've even started to do it at home.

It's a bit gay really.

[Freebasser]

An ex-flatmate of mine who was not unlike David Brent (only uglier and Welsh) once asked me to order him a "Guinness and lemonade".

The barman and I had a 15 minute discussion on how the fuck it's even possible to pour said concoction whereupon we both agreed it was a pretty stupid thing to ask for in the first place.

[Yeti]

I dated a gal and her Mom would top beer off with sprite.

[faz]

Meh, its pretty common were I work. "Lager tops" they're called. Cant say I've tried it.

[Big Gus]

I dunno i never even used to drink it down the pub, then a mate started always ordering it, I started ordering it (a "tops").

But actually buying lemonade to do it at home too?

I'm ashamed to be Scottish, but I just cant STOP!

[Helvete]

I can't stand beer, but it'd probably taste better with lemonade in it, makes it sweeter I suppose.

[faz]

I dunno i never even used to drink it down the pub, then a mate started always ordering it, I started ordering it (a "tops").

But actually buying lemonade to do it at home too?

I'm ashamed to be Scottish, but I just cant STOP!

As long as you dont start putting lime in it aswell then you should be ok.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

As long as you dont start putting lime in it aswell then you should be ok.

A true tarts drink. I have been known in the past to have a lager and black(currant) though. Sorry. :o

[faz]

What about a pint of diesel? Half lager half cider and black current. Another common drink I serve that I've yet to try, and am in no rush to try.

[Big Gus]

That stuff is fucking minging. Makes cleaning the galsses hard too.

I got a mate that mixes up all sorts of shit. A "Wagners" (3/4's pint glass filled with magners - rest topped up with Blue WKD) is actually quite nice...

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Following a bad experience on cider the smell of it now makes me heave. Chavs round here drink pints of 'cheeky vimto' which is port and WKD.

[Freebasser]

Chavs can afford port?

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Chavs can afford port?

We obviously have a higher class of chav round these parts.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Lemonade? Limes here when it's a mexican beer(Tecate, Corona, etc) and it's hot outside. In a bar, asking for lemonade and beer does not seem very manly.

When we say lemonade we mean 7up and the like, not your proper cloudy lemonade. I once asked for a southern comfort and lemonade in the US and the barman looked at me as if i was speaking greek.

[Freebasser]

We obviously have a higher class of chav round these parts.

The scallies around my area are usually to be found fighting over a bottle of homemade Toilet Duck and coke.

[Helvete]

When we say lemonade we mean 7up and the like, not your proper cloudy lemonade. I once asked for a southern comfort and lemonade in the US and the barman looked at me as if i was speaking greek.
Μπορώ να έχω μια λεμονάδα και ένα Southern Comfort?

Yeah, it's understandable.

[Drederick Tatum]

the half beer half lemonade combo is popular is Germany. Radler is good after biking about on a hot summer's day. indeed, the name itself comes from that very activity. a bit more refreshing than a straight beer.

[faz]

Following a bad experience on cider the smell of it now makes me heave. Chavs round here drink pints of 'cheeky vimto' which is port and WKD.

I had a guy ask me if I had port so he could have some cheeky vimto's. I told him we didnt and he told me to get some because "its what their all drinking in the central belt". I laughed at him.

Lemonade? Limes here when it's a mexican beer(Tecate, Corona, etc) and it's hot outside. In a bar, asking for lemonade and beer does not seem very manly.

When I said "lime" I meant lime juice, not a bit of lime.

[Big Gus]

the half beer half lemonade combo is popular is Germany.

Whoaa there I mean just a spot in the top not a shandy - which is only permissable if you're driving....

I mean just about 1cm of the glass at the top max.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

I had a guy ask me if I had port so he could have some cheeky vimto's. I told him we didnt and he told me to get some because "its what their all drinking in the central belt". I laughed at him.

:D

[Drederick Tatum]

Whoaa there I mean just a spot in the top not a shandy - which is only permissable if you're driving....

I mean just about 1cm of the glass at the top max.

having just a little bit is like looking out of the closet, hoping no one sees you. half and half is for the secure man, whose sexuality is not defined by what he drinks...

[Big Gus]

having just a little bit is like looking out of the closet, hoping no one sees you. half and half is for the secure man, whose sexuality is not defined by what he drinks...


No, seriously, shandy is only pemissable in Scotland if your:

a. 12 years old.
b. Driving a car that night
c. Suffering alcohol poisoning already.

It's just a "tops" really I think it's a British thing.

[Drederick Tatum]

Scotland is the place where guys wear skirts, right?

[Big Gus]

That old chesnut...

Yeah on weddings or foreign trips to see the football team...

You should try it my kilts served me well with the foreign ladies.

[mp-seventythree]

the half beer half lemonade combo is popular is Germany. Radler is good after biking about on a hot summer's day. indeed, the name itself comes from that very activity. a bit more refreshing than a straight beer.


When I was last in Germany, the bars were selling half beer and half cola, which was an interesting if not particularly enjoyable combination.

[faz]

That old chesnut...

Yeah on weddings or foreign trips to see the football team...

You should try it my kilts served me well with the foreign ladies.


I just got my first kilt. Its awesome.

[Drederick Tatum]

to be honest the only times I drank the 50/50 combo was after tearing about on a bike for the afternoon and by the time you're at the pub, anything stronger than 3% is going to knock you out. it's not like I'm tipping out half my pint and demanding some sprite.

[Vic Colfari]

That stuff is fucking minging. Makes cleaning the galsses hard too.


If a regular glass cleaner doesn't work, use a stronger degreasing cleaner with butoxyethanol. Apply this cleaner with a scrub pad if a rag or squeegee doesn't work. Afterwards, you may need to finish the job by using your regular cleaner to remove streaks left by the degreaser.

Hope that helps...

[abcdefz]

Lemonade? Limes here when it's a mexican beer(Tecate, Corona, etc) and it's hot outside. In a bar, asking for lemonade and beer does not seem very manly.


90% ditto

This American's never heard of it, either. Has heard of Lime in Corona, et al, but doesn't do it. Isn't sure lemonade with or without beer has a gender. Is pretty sure White Zin does. Finds almost any alcohol drink masquerading as juice to be kind of fruity.

[abcdefz]

Their "cider" is something different, too. And "smoking a fag" isn't nearly as terrible as it sounds.

[Big Gus]

Don't make me e-slap someone over the weighing things in stones again...

[b-grrrlie]

When I was younger, living in London, I always drank snakebites.

[beastiegirrl101]

When I was younger, living in London, I always drank snakebites.



ahhh snakebites. The only place I've ever had one was in London. Yum.

[Otis Driftwood]

When they say lemonade, for some reason they mean a soda like 7up. I dunno why, but these are the same people who measure their weight in stones, so who knows?
That from the guy who fight against the metric system to the very last drop of blood in his body. :D
Yeah, Radler is verrry popular with the wandering or cycling populace in Germany, the "Krefelder" (beer with coke) much less so. Outside of bavaria a lot of people like to have a wheat beer with banana juice, which is actually quite tasty. This came about in the early nineties, no doubt fueled by the east germans mad hard on for all things banana. It turned into a craze all over the country, next was wheatbeer with cherry (not as good). The pinnacle was when I was in a bar one evening and the bartender convinced a buddy to sample the newest concoction, wheat beer with tomato juice, supposedly "so refreshing". After my friend took one sip, he returned the glass and cursed his folly.
I would be amiss, if I didn't mention the "Berliner Weiße" a Berlin specialty, but Funky Pepp can explain that better, 'cause she has local knowledge and I don't wanna look up Waldmeister, lol.