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As beer mixes, often mixed beer beverages, drinks are called in Germany, some of which consist of beer and mixed with cola, lemonade, fruit juice, or other additives. Freshly prepared drink mixes are used in the catering industry and in households since the beginning of the 20th century. Hence the width of the variants and the different regional names ( eg beer with lemonade as a biker, Alsterwasser or rod ). Newly developed and accessible non-alcoholic beverages, the number of Mixmöglichkeiten advanced, were initially only lemonade or water on offer, for example, drew added Cola. Ready mixes can be sold as pre - bottled or canned drinks, beverage producers and sold commercially since 1993 by an amendment to the German beer tax law. The § 1 paragraph 2 of the Act after it are mixtures of beer with non-alcoholic beverages, which are classified under heading 2206 of the Combined Nomenclature.
Beer mixtures
- In parts of Eastern Westphalia is meant by Alster addition to the mixture of beer and lemonade also the mix of beer and apple rabbits, a red shower of Bielefeld beverage producer Caroline.
- Amer beers consists of a small part of Amer Picon, an orange liqueur, and light beer. It is drunk as an aperitif in France and Luxembourg and mentioned by Erich Maria Remarque in Arc de Triomphe from the 1940s.
- The mixing ratio of beer with cola varies regionally and from pub to pub. It ranges from a relatively small proportion of coke to a mixture 50:50. The naming diesel is derived from the color that is similar to diesel fuel. In the French-speaking parts of Switzerland is the same reason the term Mazout (heating oil ) are common.
- In the Cologne / Bonn region and in parts of the Eifel is called ( spe ) with diesel a mixture of cola and lemonade.
- The term " dirty " is based on the discoloration of foam through the crown cola.
- In Kowalsky of beer share is usually much higher than that of liquor. The name goes back to the original meaning narrowed for a mixture of beer and whiskey. Nevertheless, there is also the case with "i" ( Kowalski ).
- A Laternmaß can be regionally mixed with white or cider instead of Bright, but always contains lemonade and cherry liqueur.
- When ( Pils ) shot a mixing ratio of semi- Pils malt beer with half is not uncommon. In fact, only a small shot of root beer ( the original name so ), which is poured onto the foam head of the Pilsner, one often speaks of a cloud.
- Tango is made with a special red and very sweet lemonade. This lemonade is often called Regina or Emsland shower.