Prost! So trinken die Deutschen | Meet the Germans

Prost! So trinken die Deutschen | Meet the Germans

Yes it is true Germans have a reputation for not being exactly averse to alcohol but is their love of Germany’s world famous beer still as strong that’s what we find out in this episode of Meet the Germans plus you will see me taste some German classic Liquors that I could

Bring myself to try out yet the drinking culture in Germany may shock foreigners especially if they come from a society where alcohol isn’t that important or is forbidden what shocked me was that public drinking is legal and tolerate here which is very different from my experience in India where women buying

Alcohol in public is still quite a taboo but here I understand the Germans open love for beer because they have a long history that goes back thousands of years in the first century ad the Roman historian tacitus described the Germanic people as rather persistent beer drinkers in the Middle Ages monks

Diligently brewed beer in their monasteries it was originally for their own consumption but they eventually sold it too in 1516 the the Purity law was enacted in Bavaria to ensure the beer’s quality and about 200 years ago the first beer garden opened in Munich today they are popular all over Germany and

Pubs breweries and bars are still very important places for social interaction let’s go German wine has been produced since Roman times and the country now boasts a wide variety of both red and white wines with hard to pronounce names the best ones like reing bua or the M

TOA can be found in either the Rin hessen FS B regions or here in the mosal valley my favorite Z or sparkling wine in Germany this is a must have for celebrations although I don’t think it always requires a special occasion overall Germans have long perceived alcohol to be a c good or

Cultural asset for yeah and no wonder that Germany is still considered to be a high consumption country for alcohol with Germans drinking almost twice the global average Germans are free to start drinking quite early on in life legally young people are allowed to drink beer and wine in

The company of their parents at the age of 14 and it seems like they can afford it did you know that the alcohol prices here belong to the lowest in Europe so it doesn’t come as a surprise that Germany also has an alcoholism problem around 3 million Germans between the

Ages of 18 and 64 face alcohol related issues and almost 8 million German adults consume alcohol in a risky way during festivals like Carnival or October Fest many people drink an insane amount of alcohol but things are changing around here in the last four decades Germans have cut down massively

On their alcohol consumption according to studies in 1980 Germans aged 15 and above consumed on average 15 L of pure alcohol per capita by 2021 this number came down to around 10 L per year even though beer Remains the German’s favorite alcoholic drink in the last three decades beer sales have gone down

By 30% there are several reasons for this General decrease in alcohol consumption for example Germans are more health conscious nowadays and prefer soy more than they used to also the German Market offers a wide selection of non-alcoholic drinks catering to the country’s diverse tastes especially young Germans consume

Less alcohol nowadays in 1993 50% of 18 to 25y olds were regular alcohol drinkers in 2021 this number went down to 32% capitalizing on this trend initiatives like sober sensation have been organizing alcohol-free parties all over Germany this is slowly catching Up Co Nonetheless alcohol is still drunk quite commonly at Social gatherings in Germany and I did say I was going to taste some Liquors so here it goes after meals or late in the evening Germans often put schnaps or some kind of liquor on the table for this episode I selected three

Of these drinks that I haven’t tried before number one on the list the Yaga Meister undoubtedly this is Germany’s most famous herbal lier and now let’s see how it tastes tastes like Coca-Cola and fennel next the original feffy this peppermint liquor is popular in Germany’s eastern States the last one a Lia or egg nog egg yolk sugar alcohol is it a drink or a Pudding it did taste better than I expected not eggy at all that aside do I have my own favorite German drink of course in the summer and glue wine in Winter how about you what’s your take on the German drinking culture share it in the Comments

Deutschland ist bekannt für seine ausgeprägte Trinkkultur. Bier, Wein und Schnaps gehören hier für viele Deutsche zum Leben einfach dazu – oder? Shabnam Surita stellt diesmal für Meet the Germans fest, dass ins Thema Alkohol hierzulande Bewegung gekommen ist. Und Shabnam probiert ein paar hochprozentige deutsche Klassiker.
Shabnam Surita lebt seit 2017 in Deutschland. Für die gebürtige Inderin ist hier vieles unbekannt und auch fremd, aber Shabnam entdeckt immer wieder Spannendes und Erstaunliches an ihrer neuen Heimat. Als neues Gesicht bei Meet the Germans erkundet sie Deutschland aus ihrer eigenen Perspektive, findet zum Beispiel Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Indien und Deutschland, spricht über deutsche Tabus und gibt Praxistipps für die deutsche Sprache.
Welche Rolle spielt Alkohol in deinem Land? Wir freuen uns auf deinen Kommentar!

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