Totally Radler, as can be seen from the label on the can, is a 50/50 mix of Hopworks Urban Brewery’s Organic HUB Lager and organic lemon soda. And it clocks in at around 2.6% ABV. I had a Traveler Shandy the previous day to prepare myself. Previous soda (lemonade) beer concoctions had come off as too sweet or too heavily weighted to the soda side and I wanted to see how another example tasted.
That beer was fine. Though it was a little too candied peel strong for me which fought against the sweetness. Totally Radler on the other hand was so much less sugary that at first I was taken aback. It had the same lemon peel / lemon verbena bite to it but then it veered directly into unsweetened lemonade territory. I would call it close to Key Lime pie as well. To me the underlying lager is pretty much masked by that lemon hit.
Totally Radler tastes like an Italian soda. Tart fruit and carbonated bubbles. I liked it but to me it really isn’t beer. It is soda with it’s beer hidden from view