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German root beer?

Apr 24th, 2007 by B.

While having lunch with Christina and her husband, Rainer, yesterday they clued me in to the fact that there’s a deutsch equivalent to root beer… apparently it’s been right under my nose all along. Who knew? Needless to say (ibc root beer is without question the item I miss most from the usa) I was excited. So excited that I just knew I’d committed the name to memory for life. I mean, come on, when one is handed to location of the holy grail, one doesn’t need to write it down.

Big mistake.

So, if any of you happen to know the brand name of german root beer (the non-alcoholic stuff, supposedly sold in most markets) you’d be doing me a huge favor by letting me know. If not I have to wait until Christina & Rainer and done being pampered at their resort spa in the Czech Republic, and I’m not sure I can hold out that long…. must. have. root. beer. soon.

And now I’ll share something yummy I’ve recently discovered.

Lately I’m in sweet-tooth heaven thanks to ‘Mövenpick Of Switzerland’ cookies. It should be illegal to make cookies taste this good. We started by trying the Création Vanille, then the Création Marzipan and today the Création Noisette… my favorite to date. If this is an example of how the Swiss eat, I am so moving to Switzerland next.

yummy!

If you haven’t tried them yet you owe it to yourself to pick up a box or two- especially of the Création Noisette. Yum!

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Posted in Expat Antics: Life in Germany, Retail Therapy | 11 Comments

11 Responses to “German root beer?”

on 26 Apr 2007 at 10:51 pm1Christina

Hey, it was nice meeting for lunch! Rainer says the root beer equivalent is called Malzbier. Karamalz is one brand (http://www.karamalz.de/). You’ll have to try it and tell me if it’s really the same thing!
on 29 Apr 2007 at 9:25 am2(the other) Christina

Nope, Karamalz Malzbier isn’t even close to root beer. Totally different animal. My kids hate root beer but they’ll drink Karamalz. It’s worth a try though, you might enjoy it.
on 29 Apr 2007 at 10:46 am3CNH

I’d forgotten how much I miss root beer…
on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:40 pm4Debbie

Wow, you had my husband excited there for a minute! (Uh, wait, that sounded kind of wrong He’s German and on his first trip to the US I had him try root beer. He hated it. He took a can back to Germany for his sister and niece to try. They thought it was so nasty they couldn’t drink the whole can and said they couldn’t believe that Americans would actually drink something that disgusting. Well, on his next trip to American he tried root beer again. That time he decided it was the next best thing to actual beer and drank about 2 cases of it. Now, anytime I order from one of the American food online stores I get a few cans of it for my German
on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:44 pm5Debbie

LOL, he just said that the first time he tried it, root beer tasted like medicine and toothpaste in a can. Weird.
on 29 Apr 2007 at 10:02 pm6B.

First off, I tried the Malzbier and it’s soooo not like root beer. It tastes like sweet beer. With that yucky barley & hops flavor and everything. I ended up dumping mine. I’m still glad I heard about it though, at least it got me excited for a little while. Oh well, back to a&w from the online american stores.

Debbie - This will probably sound like a stupid question, but how do I comment on your blog?? I’ve tried several time and… even though I’ve got a yahoo account… I can’t figure out a way to do it. It’s probably simple and I’m just being lame, but I still figured I’d ask.
on 30 Apr 2007 at 10:31 am7Sabi

Formerly living in Dresden, I found your blog via a link from another blog. And I enjoy reading it.
I do not have a lot of experience with root beer but I heard that Fassbrause might also come close (looks kind of brown, more known in the Berlin area, sometimes available in Cafés, Biergarten and I saw it sometimes in the PLUS supermarket)…
on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:10 pm8B.

Hi Sabi, I’m glad you found your way here. What caused you to leave Dresden? And thanks for the tip about Fassbrause, I’ll have to look for it next time I’m at the market. And I’ll report back in this thread after I’ve tried it.
on 30 Apr 2007 at 6:36 pm9Christina

Sorry the Malzbier was all wrong. I’ll have to berate Rainer! But I bought the Mövenpick cookies and am in love with the Création Vanille. Thanks for the tip!
on 30 Apr 2007 at 9:14 pm10B.

Aren’t the Mövenpicks yummy? At first I bitched about the cost/cookie ratio, but now I’m glad there aren’t many in the box because I’m always tempted to scarf the whole thing.
on 01 May 2007 at 11:57 am11Sabi

Hi B.,
thanks for the warm welcome to your blog (my first time ever to comment on a blog ;0)). Finishing my studies and moving somewhere else to work (a town in the North where I eventually met Christina whose blog links sent me to your blog) made me leave Dresden. But I come back pretty often and still feel kind of at home in Dresden.