Green Man Radler (Cyclist)

Brewed by Green Man Brewery (NZ)
Style: Fruit Beer
Dunedin, New Zealand

Serve in Flute

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Bottled. A light yellow beer with a white head. The aroma is dominated by artificial lemons. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of lemon and some hay, leading to a dry lemony finish.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours a clear very pale yellow with a white head. Fresh lemony aroma. Light body, very, very sweet lemon. No hops whatsoever. Way too sweet. 250610

50 cL bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours pale and clear yellow with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy and lime. Sweet fruity and citrusy flavour. Mild citric and sweet finish.

Bottle at papsø. Clear pale yellow coloured with a small white head. Fruity aroma of citrus and lemon soda. Sweet flavour of lemon soda and citrus. Watery.

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear light yellow - white head. Sodavand, saft, candy, sweetness, kiwi-saft, thin and boring. ØV !!!

Finally I tuck into the little beer with the big bully problem! Nice to hear that a trademark law firm has taken up the fight (pro-bono I might add!) against DB’s ridiculous claim to possess the rights to "radler". GO GREEN MAN! I even got one of the proper original labels-- I have seen several liquor stores in which Green Man Radler has a white sticky label over the word "Radler" replacing it with the word "Cyclist". Anyway, on with the show: this beer poured very pale yellow with an average white head that was quite short-lived. Aroma was nearly identical to Canada Dry ginger ale soda. The flavour was much the same-- very sugary sweet, as one rater said very reminiscent of L&P, but with a doughy hint of malt in the back of the palate. This certainly was not my thing (I didn’t even finish it), but I wish Green Man every success in winning the freedom to continue to name their beer according to its proper style.

Bottle. Pours a pale gold with no head. Smells like lemonade, and tastes like lemonade. Refreshing enough - but you have to try hard to detect the malt, though you are left with some on the palate in the finish. Has to rate low against "beer", but is probably a reasonable Radler.

Clear pale yellow colour with no head. Thin weak body, more like sprite than a beer.

500ml bottle - blind tasted could be L & P. Pale straw yellow, has a diet lemonade feel about it. Could be true to style but I think the beer is left behind somewhere.

Pours pale golden, with thin white head which dissipates completely. Not very carbonated. Smells like lemonade. The lemonade flavours overtake the beer flavours. Refreshing but leaves an aftertaste like diet lemonade.