The unpopular or otherwise, question thread.

[ledboots]

All those are vegan friendly? I'll have to see if I can find them.
Thanks for the suggestions. I want to drink an Angry Pirate just because of the name.

I would look up the one you want to be sure.

 

[Danielle]

I would look up the one you want to be sure.

I'm interested in the chocolate orange

 

[ledboots]

I'm interested in the chocolate orange

Looks like it's vegan!

"Saranac Brewery
by Saranac Brewery, USA
Vegan Friendly

Company Email:

"Our brewery does not use gelatin or isinglass in clarifying our beer. We filter our beer with diatomaceous earth and silica gel, all of which is completely removed from the finished product.

While we do not use animal-derived ingredients to make or filter our beers, we choose not to claim that our products are vegan friendly without a thorough and proper understanding of the lifestyle. It seems that there are different meanings for every vegan. We have found in our research that there are many definitions and we have not yet been able to find guidelines that would help us to know exactly what would need to be in place for our products to fall into this description."

 

[Andy_T]

Is there a type of beer for vegans who don't like the taste of beer? Or does it all taste like pee? It needs to be extremely sweet for me to like it.

Even more simple ... Radler / Shandy.

Mix your beer 50:50 with lemonade. Standard is lemon lemonade, e.g. Sprite.

Nice drink, and comes with an even nicer story behind it:

The drink was invented in the Roaring Twenties by Franz Xaver Kugler, a fellow who is as home-grown a Bavarian as pretzels and lederhosen. Herr Kugler was a railroad worker turned innkeeper who opened his watering hole, the Kugleralm (meaning: Kugler's alpine meadow), toward the end of the nineteenth century in a little place called Deisenhofen, some 12 miles outside Munich.

When, after World War I, bicycle riding became a popular pastime in Germany, Herr Kugler arranged for the construction of a bike trail through the forest, from Munich straight to his establishment—only to get himself into trouble…almost. He had not planned for what businessmen call the up-side risk, when, on a fine Saturday in June 1922, some 13,000 cyclists descended upon the Kugleralm and demanded beer. They almost depleted Franz Xaver's stock of brew.

The Kugleralm without beer would have been a catastrophe! But the quick-thinking innkeeper had a bright idea. He had several thousand bottles of clear lemon soda in his cellar, a beverage that had proven virtually unsaleable to his beer-loving Bavarian public. To save the day, and to get rid of what he considered some useless inventory, he mixed this lemon soda with his remaining beer at a 50/50 ratio and proudly declared that he had invented this concoction deliberately just for the cyclists so that they would not fall off their bikes on their way home. He called the mixture a Radlermass (Radler means cyclist in German, Mass means a liter of beer). In Herr Kugler's case, need became the mother of invention.

Thus was created what is perhaps the Bavarian equivalent of the British shandy (which is a mixture of beer and ginger beer). Herr Kugler's "cyclist's liter" quickly became so popular in Munich that other beer gardens saw themselves compelled to offer the same mixture as well. The new drink became a lasting success, and to this day, you can still buy Radlermass in beer stores all over Germany, and the Kugleralm is still going strong as a beer garden with seating for over 2,000 guests.

from: Radler

My favourite currently is to make my Radler with a good Ginger Ale. Gives a nice "bite" to it.

Best regards,
Andy

 

[shyvas]

Even more simple ... Radler / Shandy.

Mix your beer 50:50 with lemonade. Standard is lemon lemonade, e.g. Sprite.

Nice drink, and comes with an even nicer story behind it:



from: Radler

My favourite currently is to make my Radler with a good Ginger Ale. Gives a nice "bite" to it.

Best regards,
Andy

That is the only way that I drink beer, a nice chilled glass of shandy 70 % diet lemonade/30 % no alcohol beer.

 

[Dropkick]

All those are vegan friendly? I'll have to see if I can find them.
Thanks for the suggestions. I want to drink an Angry Pirate just because of the name.

I can't actually think of how any alcohol wouldn't be vegan friendly. -Though some alcohol producers (conglomerates) might be on the vegan bad list.

 

[Dropkick]

That is the only way that I drink beer, a nice chilled glass of shandy 70 % diet lemonade/30 % no alcohol beer.

First you use that abomination that is no alcohol beer and then you mix it with diet lemonade!!!!
WHY?????

 

[shyvas]

First you use that abomination that is no alcohol beer and then you mix it with diet lemonade!!!!
WHY?????

Why not ?

 

[Danielle]

Non alcohol. Defeats the point
Do you drink decaf?

 

[Danielle]

I can't actually think of how any alcohol wouldn't be vegan friendly. -Though some alcohol producers (conglomerates) might be on the vegan bad list.

There are a lot of non vegan friendly alcohol.
Some companies use egg or fish bladder to filter it. Bloody Mary usually has Worcestershire sauce, which contains fish

 

[shyvas]

Non alcohol. Defeats the point
Do you drink decaf?

I don't see why ? No, I don't ever drink decaffeinated coffee. I do like ( and tolerate) caffeine and furthermore most brands use chemicals to remove the caffeine.

It's strange why so many people get defensive if you say that you don't drink the non alcohol/sugar free/etc version.

 

[Danielle]

It's weird

 

[shyvas]

It's weird

I really don't see why it is weird. Everyone has the right to consume alcohol or sugar free products for ethical/medical/religious or other reasons.

 

[hungryraccoon]

I drink decaf because I love the taste of coffee & I can't really tolerate caffeine at all.

Maybe some people like the taste of beer/cocktails etc but don't want the effects of alcohol or a hangover the next day...

It's kid of rude to say that's 'weird'.

 

[Andy_T]

Believe you me, lots of people do think that we vegans are weird, eating soy burgers if we could also munch down on tasty corpse parts.

There are many good reasons to go for alcohol free alcohol, and Radler is one of the places where you will notice it less that you are drinking "unleaded" (that's how my wife and myself usually refer to alcohol-free drinks).

Reminds me of the time when genuine petrolheads were questioning whether unleaded petrol would not kill their beloved engines and were, on principal reasons, refusing to put it into their cars.

One of my personal favourites (but I digress here) is "Unleaded Caipirinha" made with Schweppes Ginger ale instead of Cachaca/sugar ... put it over the limes and the ice, it's awesome. My wife and I came to appreciate that when she was pregnant or breastfeeding.

Best regards,
Andy

 

[Danielle]

well that's different because you don't kill a cow to get a veggie burger lol

 

[Andy_T]

Yes, and you don't kill off our brain cells by drinking alcohol-free beer

I definitely like that one when I am not drinking at home and still have to drive.

 

[Danielle]

Still not the same

 

[shyvas]

Yes, and you don't kill off our brain cells by drinking alcohol-free beer

I definitely like that one when I am not drinking at home and still have to drive.

Or when you want to enjoy a nice cool beer/shandy with diner/lunch at work.

 

[Dropkick]

Yes, and you don't kill off our brain cells by drinking alcohol-free beer

I definitely like that one when I am not drinking at home and still have to drive.

You kill off brain cells sneezing, at least with beer it's much more enjoyable.

I like beer (I better - at one time I drank oceans of it). But for some reason I've never understood appeal of non- alcohol beer.
-Intellectually I can see why people might like it, but if I'm going to worry about drinking alcohol I'd much rather limit myself to one real beer or drink something else (never thought about it before, but I think I've just discovered that I'm a beer snob).