>Why don't they just drink radlers? :o) I actually used to love those...
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>Some years ago it was something the landlord was offering.
>This and the likes is sold as premix now. You can have in every sweet taste you can imagine. This is the sugar water I mean.
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>The tart beers are not easy to start with, but they better quench the dirst then the high sugars.
>The premixed stuff also hides even more alcohol under the sugar then a normal beer would have.
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>In the times I've started with beer (at 14) the strong taste limited the amount. We have done a small one (0.25 l). On this amount normal people get not drunken.
>I need some time to learn to bear it. Until that I have learned to deal with the whole problem.
>Now the kids start with those sugar stuff and use it like lemonade. They are drunken before they get an idea what is happening.
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>Agnes

Wow, times have really changed. It used to be that Pilzner was so bitter that adding a little orange soda just made it somewhat less bitter and alittle fizzy...Quite refreshing actually. Now it's actually sweet?