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Krügel or 0.5-litre tankard Seidl or standard Krügel or 0.5-litre of Pfiff, the smallest
0.3-litre measure pale beer measure of beer, a
0.2-litre glass
Austrian Beers
Good malty beers have been produced in
Austria for centuries. The most popular beers
are made by the Gösser brewery in Styria –
light Gösser Gold, stronger Gösser Spezial and
dark, sweet Gösser Stiftsbräu. In Vienna, beer
from the local brewery in the Ottakring district,
the pale sweet Gold Fassl, is popular although
Bavarian-style wheat beers such as Weizengold
are also available. The most popular alcohol-free
beer in Austria is Null Komma Josef.

Kaiser is a light Weizengold wheat Gösser Spezial, a
beer beer rich beer

Other Austrian Drinks
Austria offers a good range of non-alcoholic
fruit juices such as Himbeersaft (raspberry juice) Bierhof beer mat Null Komma Josef (Nought
and Johannisbeersaft (blackcurrant juice). advertising a pub in Point Joseph), an alcohol-
Almdudler (“Alpine pasture yodler”), a herbal the Haarhof. free beer.
lemonade, is also a speciality.
Fruit is the basis of many types
of schnaps (sometimes called
Brand). This powerful eau-de-
vie is distilled from berries
such as juniper or fruits such
as apricots (Marillen) and
quince (Quitten). It is worth
paying the extra to sample
the schnaps from specialists.
Mixer drinks are popular:
they include Radler
(“cyclist”), a beer with
lemonade. An innkeeper
is said to have invented
this drink on a hot
day when, almost out
of beer, he
served it to Apricot
thirsty cyclists. schnaps
Wiener Rathauskeller, a popular beer-drinkers’ haunt (see p307)

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