Sometimes fond memories should be left in the past and not revisited. Like my trip ten years ago to New Zealand's North Island where I cruised around on a Contiki tour for 6 days of fun, sun and many nights showing off my incredible knowledge of drinking games (funnily enough I don't remember half of them nowadays.) The radler was cheap and plentiful and I burnt through a tonne of the stuff with games like 'One fat hen'.
Flash forward to now when Dan Murpheys (massive Australian bottle shop company) were stocking radler six packs for the members price of just $10. Cheap radler? Fun memories of that big bus trip? Will I remember what happened to that cute librarian?
SIGN ME UP BABY!
Yeah good idea in theory.
This natural lemon they speak of on the label? Tastes like grandma's overzealous lemon butter melted into something that doesn't really taste like beer. It does a bang up job of hiding the beer too as you get a massive hit of lemon like syrup and precious little else.
Which starts off okay if it's straight out of the fridge on a stinking hot day and there's nothing else around to drink and the gets progressively worse as it warms up and the lemon emerges to strangle what's left of the brew.
Even if you like lemon, well it's very sickly sweet by the end. You'll want to really love lemon to even think this is a good idea.
It's still %5 abv, it'll still get you silly with enough of them, it's still cheap on occasion. Is it worth it though?
1 out of 5 fun bus trips.