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Krügel or 0.5-litre tankard Seidl or standard 0.3 Krügel or 0.5-litre of Pfiff, the smallest
litre measure pale beer measure of beer, a
0.2-litre glass
Austrian Beers
Good malty beers have been produced in
Austria for more than 150 years. The most popular
beers are made by the Gösser brewery in Styria –
light Gösser Gold, stronger Gösser Spezial and
dark, sweet Gösser Stiftsbräu. One of the oldest
breweries, based in Schwechat, Lower Austria,
produces a variety of pale beers and a slimming
beer (so it is claimed) – Adam Schlank & Rank.
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
or Johannisbeersaft (blackcurrant juice). Almdudler advertising a pub in Point Joseph), an alcohol-
(Alpine pasture yodler), a herbal lemonade, the Haarhof. free beer.
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
thirsty cyclists.
Apricot
schnaps
Wiener Rathauskeller, a popular beer-drinkers’ haunt

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