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Radeberger Pilsner: How can you feel anything but special when you drink a beer that has been crowned the official drink by King Friedrich August III of Saxony (WHO?!?)? I found this to be a crisp pilsner with faint characteristics reminiscent of Trappist beers. |
Hi, Becca,
ReplyDeleteKing Friedrich August III. was the last king of Saxony, a very kind man who lost his wife to a British actor, though.
Once, when standing in uniform on a station platform, a lady asked him to move her trunk. He is reported to have replied, "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like one." - In 1918, he had to abdicate. He did that with the words: 'Now do that ... on your own!', Much later, being cheered by a crowd in a railroad station several years after his abdication, he stuck his head out of the train's window and shouted, "You're a fine lot of republicans, I'll say!". Radeberger is, by the way, the most-drunk beer in Saxony. - These three anecdotes are from Wikipedia.
Greetings, Marc.