Colabier

Over the course of my two weeks in Bavaria, I often saw Colabier advertised in various menus, alongside Radlers. Assuming that it was true to its name, I felt it was probably disgusting. Still, though, it nagged on me that I should probably try it at some point, so I broke down and ordered one on the train ride from Innsbruck to Frankfurt. True to its name, this drink was 50% Becks Pilsner and 50% Pepsi (actually, it turned out being about 70% Becks as the concoction seems to make quite a head of foam, and the server got bored waiting for it to subside). How did it taste? Exactly how you would expect a cocktail of beer and cola would taste. Neither flavor was muted nor overpowered the other. It was almost a perfect balance of opposing taste sensations that was barely tolerable. Unlike a radler which can be refreshing in a way that tastes neither like lemonade nor beer, colabeer is almost unsettingly non-refreshing. It left me feeling full and slightly grossed out.