In Germany is it very popular, myself sometimes drinking after Sport (for example Football, Hiking, Basketball etc.) besides Water obviously.
That’s Apfelschorle;
“Apfelschorle (pronounced [ˈapfəlʃɔɐ̯lə] ⓘ) (apple spritzer), also Apfelsaftschorle (apple juice spritzer) or Apfelsaft gespritzt (splashed apple juice, more widely used in Hesse, Bavaria, and Austria) in German, is a popular soft drink in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.[1] It consists of carbonated mineral water and apple juice.[2] The broader category Fruchtschorle consists of any fruit juice mixed with carbonated water, but Apfelschorle is by far the most common. Spritzer (that is, wine mixed with carbonated water) is called Weinschorle.
A glass of Apfelschorle.”
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Not here, and I wonder why, cause apple juice is popular (and we produce 4M tonnes of apples a year, 1st place in Europe & 4th global), and this sounds like genius idea 😐
Well I mean, there’s Appletiser and Apple Tango…but I’d be surprised if either of them were even in the top 20 most popular brands of soft drinks consumed. Maybe for children it is.
Schorle definitely isn’t as much of a thing here as it is in Germany.
(Also TIL Appletiser’s from South Africa!)
I can think of several stilldrinks that fit the description, but nothing carbonated.
Content vise, closest might be Trocadero, but that is an apple flavoured carbonated soda.
Function vise, being a quick fruit flavoured cooler, the closest is probably Mer (sv) and Festis (sv), but those are stilldrinks.
In Belgium yes! I remember the brand appeltiser. Mostly in the Dutch speaking parts you will find sparkling apple juice, we also have the sparkling Lipton iced tea, it’s the one soda I crave when I’m in a foreign country, I didn’t know how unique to Belgium and Germany that last one was until no foreigners I know knew about sparkling Lipton lol
ETA: Lipton recently also promoted sparking peach iced tea but it’s hard to find 🙁 I tried it once but it’s not as good as the classic imo
That is certaily a modern form of Gazzosa, a bevarage diffused in Northern Italy and Switzerland made fermenting fruit juices causing natural carbonation or in more modern times adding a tartaric acid and backing soda formula.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnLombardLanguage/comments/1jqku2v/ta_v%C3%B6rat_impara_a_fa_la_gazzosa_la_gazzosa/
Not down here.
Perhaps more in the northern parts of Italy, especially Alto-Adige?
We have our own regional drinks in Sicily.Even just plain apple juice is unusual here, though they do sell industrial ones in the supermarket.
Nope, and i cannot express the feeling of betrayal when I arrived at Munchen station for the first time years ago, saw a bottle of apple juice, bought it and discovered it was CARBONATED
Why Germans love carbonated drinks so much?
It is not quite the same, but here in Switzerand there is a divide bewteen language barriers when it comes to apple sauce. In German speaking Switzerland it is a common garnish to a lot of menus, but in French speaking Switzerland this not done or at least much less often.
I don’t know if for Schorle this is true too, as it is sold in all of Switzerland, but it could be the case.
This wiki article is centered on Germany. Apfelsaft gespritzt, “more widely used” in Austria? More like exclusively used in Austria, in tourist spots we will understand what Germans mean by that, but it’s not common at all to call it Schorle. Spritzer is called Weinschorle? No, Spritzer is called Spritzer. Same issue. Even in Italy something with sparkling water is a Spritzer, in some regions.
I live in Austria’s province with the highest apple industry. You find Apfelsaft g’spritzt on every Restaurant’s menu.
It was quite popular in the Netherlands when I was a student 20 years ago but haven’t heard about it since.
I think it’s not unknown in the Netherlands. I learned about it from a friend and like it, have ordered it in restaurants and sometimes they have it, sometimes they are confused 😉
I recently saw an interview with Jacob Collier and he loves it too. It’s a wonderful refreshing drink, I wish they sold it here in the supermarkets.
Not very well known/popular in the Netherlands I think.
Personally I really like it.After learning about it on trips to Germany.
I drink it often now but mix it myself from apple juice and sparkling water 🙂 .