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When it comes to mixes of mixed drinks, it's all down to personal taste. I would also expect some completely unknown off-brand to sneak into my favorites list (which of course, I would note in cursive!).
I love the River zero from Aldi, The paulaner Spezi is Mid range , but refreshing when its hot outside. And you had a Spezi with Fassbrause - its alkolfree Beer with the orange - cola flavor diffrent drink
I like how when we were getting to his "old favorite" one, he said "oh yeah, we are back to better ones" and fully expecting a 7+ and then he said 5,5.
Donnie, you should ask Schwarzwaldsprudel to sponsor you. I'm sure most of your viewers never heard about that brand before. Now I've got the feeling that I have to taste it. Just out of curiosity. :-)
Fun fact: When I was a kid we often referred to Spezi as „Kalter Kaffee“, cold coffee. And since there was probably just one brand of Spezi, we had most of the time cola mixed with fanta. And that‘s obviously the best. 😉 print
I didn't even know that there are so many different brands! When I was a child, we used to mix Coca Cola and Fanta ourselves but sometimes we would also buy Mezzo Mix or Schwipp Schwapp. That was all we had 😄 I've never even heard of most of these brands in general. And the one children's drink looks like syrup that you have to mix with water. And I write in print.
We actually did a Spezi taste testing with my scout group a few years ago. I think we had 20 different brands. We also wanted Paulaner Spezi to be on top, but it got ranked quite low as well. I think the Freeway one was also one of the top, if not the best-tasting one. Leikeim won overall because we considered design as well. A bottle with "Bügelvershluss" is hard to beat.
I have been living abroad for 30 years and had no idea about this many brands of Spezi, which is according to my feeling the southerners' short form of Spezial. When I was a kid in the north, we used to call it Kalter Kaffee (cold coffee)! My favourite of the three or four that I know is Schwipp Schwapp Lemon taste (Pepsico).
As most Germans of my generation I learned cursive in elementary school first and wasn't allowed to write in print before high school. During high school I developed a mix type, but nowadays it is mostly print.
Same here. Cursive was taught in elementary school and after a few years of "Gymnasium" it was relaxed. I mixed styles a little, but am still mostly using cursive as my standard handwriting style (although I have horrible penmanship regardless and can barely decipher my own writing...^^
We learned that you guys have a GREAT sense of humor, a delightful way of presenting, you put a HUGE amount of effort into your videos and that your family is, well, adorable. Thanks for sharing your world with us. Print. :)
4:20 Fassbrause ("barrel soda") is originally a kind of apple lemonade that looks like beer but contains no alcohol, apparently invented in the early 20th century in Berlin. The word is still popular here. It may now be used for other kinds of sodas but that's not what it originally meant.
Having grown up in Augsburg, where Riegele is based, I literally grew up with the original Spezi running in my veins and to this day it is the best for me.
My personal favorites are the self-mix and the Original Spezi in the 0.5 glass bottle. After this video I'll have to try the Schwarzwaldsprudel versions for sure.
You definitely didn't lose any respect with me for having mostly unknown or supermarket brands in your top five, rather the reverse. It only goes to show that it really was a blind test and your mind wasn't clouded by brand image. I probably would have made different choices, though, because I normally like the ones that are heavy on orange taste. I actually self-mix cola with orange juice occasionally.
Great video, had a good laugh when you gave the Paulaner Spezi only the 5.5 and roasted yourself for it 😄 I like the Paulaner Spezi a lot, too, just as MezzoMix and the self-mixed Cola/Fanta. My bf prefers Mischmasch, but just like Donnie I think it tastes too orangey. Regarding writing in cursive vs. print: I learnt to do both, print first and then cursive and then it was only allowed to write in cursive in the Grundschule for some reason amd since then it's kind of ingrained in me and the standard, so even though if I want to write print I have to concentrate not to revert back to cursive. Now I write this weird mix of both.
That's exactly what I think before I watch:"Why you don't mix it self, all others have a dump aftertaste". Black Forest tab -water is very good. I never understood why the people there and in the Alps region buy botteled water.
Not surprised that Schwarzwald-Sprudel ended up in your Top 5. I haven't tried their Spezi yet, but their other fruity sodas are among my absolute favourites. In particular their low calorie drinks are really good. They make them with more real juice than most other brands and it shows. Give the low calorie orange or lemon soda a try! And to top it off, they're pretty affordable, about 50 cents a bottle when you buy a case. (I do NOT work for Schwarzwald Sprudel! I just drink a lot of sodas.)
My wife and I do: First we fill a teaspoonful of lime syrup (Tritop) into the glass and then we fill it up with any good orange lemonade and coke. Normally we rely on ther maker Sinalco as their 1l bottles fit better into the shelf in the door of our fridge.
When I was young, I only got "diesel" - that's what the Cola-Fanta mix was and is called in our area - in the pub. It was my favourite drink. A few years later, I tried the original Spezi on holiday at an alpine hut. It had a very fresh and somewhat fruitier taste and became my favourite.
@@SchmulKrieger Well, in our region, a "diesel" has been the mix of Coca Cola and Fanta since at least the early 60s. Spezi was still a beer brand back then and only became the Cola+Orange soda in 1965. In our region, Drecksack is beer with cola. It seems to vary from region to region..... Wikipedia writes under Spezi (drink): "Drinks made of cola with orange lemonade are also called Gwasch, Cola-Mix, Mexi or Mexikaner, Kalter Kaffee, Moorwasser, Dünnpfiff or Diesel".
HEHehheheeee. I loved this video lol, as I love all of yalls videos lol. It was fun and entertaining lol. Actually, the German Fanta orange is my favorite. As a matter of fact, I brought 14 Fanta's from Germany back to the states on my last trip and I have only one left lol. BTW, I do love the Paulaner Spetzi lol. It was great to see Aubrey pop in :). I write in cursive and I type in print lol lol lol. :). See yall in the next video.
Good test, enjoyed it :) Drinking Spezi quite a lot, also in McDonalds or BurgerKing. Mostly Mezzo Mix though or self mixed. Think I never bought one of the Sprudel brand's ones. Might try them :)
I was kind of the same, at one point I was looking for Mezzo Mix and ended up getting a Paulaner Spezi as a replacement, had no idea that it was going to be the superior version. Another time I was at a PX on an American base, asking if they sold any Mezzo Mix (wrongly believing it to be the OG) while holding up a Netto Markt brand Limmetto that I had just bought from the Doner stand outside. The cashier told me they didn't sell Mezzo Mix, but that I was better off drinking the Netto brand. Turns out he was right, now Netto is my go to.
Hi Donnie, a very interesting and surprising finish of your Spezi test. What about a Radler / Alsterwasser or a Bier + Cola Mix test? I guess the Radler variety is more common. Fun fact: I personally started to drink a Pils + Cola Mix way before it got generally sold / produced and promoted. I started to order and drink this „weird“ mix (O-Ton meiner Freunde) in our regular Kneipe in the early - mid 1970‘s. I like it even. more than Radler.
Oh I love Spezi! It's definitely my favorite soft drink. I either buy the cheap already mixed version from "gut&günsig" (Edeka) or "ja!" (rewe) or I buy the cheap Cola and Fanta by them and mix it myself. Mixing it myself is what I like most bcs I like to have a little bit more Fanta than Cola in it. And I also like that you can still have a glass of Cola or Fanta if you're in the mood :D (or have friends that don't like Spezi)
The off-brand / supermarket brand stuff is quite often made at brand manufacturers. Different bottle and label of course and mots likely a little bit modified recipe. Cursiv if course.
I do like Paulaner Spezi and MezzoMix the most but I also haven't tried many others. Sometimes I mix Coca-Cola with Lemon Fanta instead of Orange which is also a good combination.
That's really no surprise for me - some friends of mine explicitly ask for a Cola/Fanta Mix when ordering Spezi at a restaurant, as the pre-mixed ones are often not as good. .... oh, I am writing print.
Self mixing (whether Coke and Fanta or choosing store brands or whatever you prefer) of course has the advantage of choosing the "perfect" coke-to-orange ratio. Then again, you'll probably be more inconsistent than ready to go bottles so it can easily go down the list. Oh, and definitely print. I was somewhat self taught and knew how to write (albeit in an ugly way) before going to school and only used cursive for school. When at 7th grade we weren't required to do that anymore - and not required anymore to use a fountain pen - I switched to print which I always used in private and a biro and may have at least doubled my writing speed and quadrupled my writing comfort.
In this case i stick to my local brewery: Klett Bräu Konzell. (But still, I'm glad to have a change of pace every once in a while and have a different brand of beverage case at home).
Now that’s a video that no non-German will ever understand. Nice one, liked it. Spezi is great! My favorite’s self mixed Coke+Fanta, to this day. Then Coke’s premixed MezzoMix and, occasionally, some classic Sprudel-based mix for variation. We don’t have it that often (sugar conten!) but when we do, it’s still a treat for me. In my family it was either Coke+Fanta. Or sometimes “gelber Sprudel”+ “Cola Sprudel” (I.e. Orange soda + cola soda). Spezi was a special treat for us kids because normally we only had “Gelber/yellow Sprudel” (=Orange Soda), “Weisser/white Sprudel” (=Lemon Soda) and “Saurer/sour Sprudel” (=Carbonated mineral water) at home. Spezi was the slow introduction to caffeine and we only got it as a treat for good grades or on someone’s birthday. Then it had to be Coke+Fanta, of course. Pure Coca Cola only came much later when we got older because of the caffeine. Quite later Dad also bought MezzoMix along with Coke, Fanta and Sprite. When I grew up, “Spezi” was (and still is) the generic term for any kind of Cola+Orange soda mix. I was in my late teens when I learned that there even was a the real “Spezi” drink which name became the generic umbrella term for the whole type of drink - like Tesa/Scotch tape or Tempo paper tissues. Actually I liked the Coke+Fanta mix it better with the “old” Fanta like when I was a kid. They changed the Fanta recipe at some time in the 2000s to the current one. A few years ago they brought back a limited run of “Fanta Classic” - and I preferred that self mix of Coke+Fanta Classic over the “modern” one.
You should try "flumi" by Privatbrauerei Ustersbach. There is two kinds of cola-mix. Cola+Limo and Cola+little Orange Juice, the second one is better most of the time, if mixed right. And always drink it chilled.
maybe you should have cleared your pallette with water in between the different cups :O i think its hard to distinguish smaller differences so close after one another. Also they always taste different from a bottle or a cup or whatever container you drink from :D
I write a lot of cursive, with some print elements. Regarding the Spezis, the result was to be expected. When buying so many brands unknown to you, you are bound to find something you like more than your standard, I guess. You know, I always liked Schweppes Ginger Ale and preferred it over all no-name brands. Then I moved to Leipzig and they have a wiiiide variety of limo brands and Ginger Ale is quite popular. So there my taste buds could explore a wide variety of Ginger Ale. Ever since, the one and only good Ginger Ale will be Margon to me. Unfortunately, they don't cater to Hamburg, so basically, my taste buds are "verdorben". I will have to go to Leipzig to get some Ginger Ale, I guess.
It didn't really surprise me that some of the top were grocery store brands. Lidl has some very good products in their cheap option shelf (although I don't really like the freeway-drinks) When it comes to Spezi, I usually go for Paulaner, but when I'm around my hometown, there are some local varieties.
I personally experienced huge differences in Quality within the same brand of a lot of the cheaper ones, while bigger brands are more consistant in flavor. Paulaner Spezi is good for that, but I also would not rank it as my top but still within the ones I would choose more regularly.
Yep, Orangina is the best orange soda. I first drank it when I was in France 30 year’s because of school exchange and then also I first saw the biggest supermarket in my life, a Carrefour. Now they are even in Spain. But Orangina is a little bit pricey here and originally they are filled in little Asterix magic potion like bottles.
5:30 speaking of coffee, in some parts of Germany you may get a Spezi/Cola-Mix if you order a "kalter Kaffee". In some parts of Germany, the beverage is also called "Diesel". But this is rare, more often than not "Diesel" would be cola mixed with beer.
Oh my, just thinking of all the Pfand you guys will have to return after this XD Interesting experiment, also I had no idea how many Spezis exist and haven't really had one since childhood. I think I'll give it another try this summer. For me it's print due to my terrible handwriting...in print others (and myself) can decipher it more easily!
I prefer Cola with orange juice. One of the reasons for your order might be the order that you tried the samples. Cursive or print: When I write for me to read -- cursive, when others have to read it -- often print. There is a reason for it. I usually don't handwrite much anymore.
I love the 11:26 "LAMMSBRÄU now" one and generally Fritz drinks (one example shown in 8:14) - both of which you didn't rate very high - but I still love them :-)
Maybe they'd also taste differently fresh from the glass bottle (and refrigerated, of course :-) 🤷🏼♀️ - but just generally I think I like the ones with a stronger orangey flavour - which didn't seem a great preference of yours... So, as you said: To each their own ;-)
this was fun... Didn´t know Sinalco still exist... what a fun testing.... Mezzomix was not in the choices? or did I missed it? it is not easy to make a fair testing - Temperatur can change (they warm up) there are clearly some flavours left in your mouth from other glasses and sometimes drinks get better when you drink more.... but it was funny...
You should also try VitaCola. This is Cola flavoured with lemon and has a very delicious taste. 👍 Disclaimer: Drinking sugar is not healthy and carbonated it gets you twice a fat 😅 Do this only on weekend 👍
Vita Cola is probably hard to get in his part off Germany because it’s from the east part and still not very common in the west. It’s the #1 in the east part 😎I would prefer Vita cola over Coca Cola or Pepsi anytime! I’m biased because I crow up with this one and Schmalkalden is almost wright around the corner from where I live.
Hi Guys , I have been living in Germany for over 50 years. I live in Ruthweiler close to Kusel rite below Burg Lichtenberg I met my future wife in1972 on the Kusele Messe.Been living here ever since.You can visit us anytime.I came over here in 1971and was stationed in Baumholder for 3 years..We are not far away. It might make an interresting video for you Guys.
How about showing/ tasting some of the many, many krauters? All that is known here in the U.S. is Jagermeister, on my visits to Deutschland, I have seen many types.
Great video! I also love Spezi and like to try different brands. My favourite is the original Spezi and I don't like the Paulaner Spezi, btw. ;-) Also Mezzo Mix is not my favourite, too sweet. Oh, and I really like the Fritz Kola "Mischmasch" that you rated low saying it has a too strong orange taste. Guess that's exactly what I like about it. :-) My least favourite so far would probably be the "now" Orange Cola Mix that you also rated quite low. It is indeed very weird. It's supposed to belong to organic food (can't recall having seen it in regular supermarkets yet), maybe that's the problem with it. :-) Oh, and forgot to mention: The self-mix is OK to me, but not my favourite. Because Fanta is my least favourite orange lemonade actually. :-)
I don't like the taste of Coke mixed with orange, but I am glad you liked the Lidl brand, because I like their regular coke. I wonder whether Schwarzwald -Sprudel sells coke, too.
How did you mix cola and fanta? When I was a child I experimented a lot to find the best ratio. I found out that my favorite coke to fanta ratio is 3:1
Some say, Paulaner (brewery) does this to bond the kids to the brand. If they change to beer as an adult, they might still choose Paulaner. Or while young, they can drink a Paulaner with their dad together, the kid this Spezi, the dad the beer.
Cursive, of course, bc you can write so much faster in the flow. Print is so hard with its stop and go. Even when I try to print, I always fall back into cursive. [I'm German]
Not everywhere it's called Spezi. In Hesse it's called Kalter Kaffee oder Kaffeelimo. My favourite version is a selfmade mix with lemonade from lemons from our water brand and Afri Cola. The Version to buy is by Sinalco.
Make a chocolate taste test next but be sure to include Hachez and Fedora and keep it on par like milk chocolate only or dark chocolate only without mix ins.
@@PassportTwo I’m still watching, but the “beans” taste reminded me of wine tastings we used to do with a friends group. The host picks a grape and provides dinner and everyone brings a bottle of wine of that grape. After tasting 10ish wines we sometimes were convinced that they were mix drinks because some of the wine notes were so prominent.
I actually never tried a Spezi. It's sweet+sweet. Favourite Cola mix would be Cuba Libre (also available ready mixed in cans). Generally I stick to Radler.
I´m writing in print after been told back in school my cursive is super hard to read. So instead of improoving on my cursive I´ve gone the easy route and switched to print. Call me lazy, I´m fine with that. Nowadays I´m very glad I almost don´t even have to write by hand at all. Never learded typing and I´m not good at it but it´s still my prefered way to get things written down. And on topic of the video: I´m grown up before "light", "sugar free" and "zero" was a thing but prefer MexxoMix Zero over the sugar version in taste today.
I also don't particularly like the fanta by itself, but mixing cola + fanta is by far the best spezi. You can finetune it by doing different ratios. Personally I prefer like 60% fanta and 40% cola.
12:35 dont worry germans kinda love the cheap house brands because they knew its from the same factory as the name brands and sometimes the cheap one are actually better
At least with soft drinks, it is often a multi step process. You might buy the syrup from the same place that they make the name brands, or give a bottle of Paulaner Spezi to a different syrup maker to ape it. But then they sometimes mix it with different water at different factories or carbonate it differently: for example Lidl/Kaufland have their own soda production.
SPOILER Not surprised at all that you went with the self-mixed one as your winner. The kid version of me would agree that the self-mixed one is better than all of the industry mixes. The same, with a much larger gap between them, goes for self-mixed Apfelschorle and its industry mixed versions: you can't water down the former but certainly the latter. Also, using the two originals to mix for yourself gives you the opportunity for the two separate flavors as well.
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*Fun Fact:*
Fanta is German, created in 1940. Ruhrpott!
>> Only Fanta in Germany has 5-6% real fruit juice. All Fanta outside Germany has 0%. ;)
When it comes to mixes of mixed drinks, it's all down to personal taste. I would also expect some completely unknown off-brand to sneak into my favorites list (which of course, I would note in cursive!).
Its not Personal tast Paulaner is just the best
@@zombeyfan2006 Never had Paulaner Spezi, so no opinion on that from me.
I love the River zero from Aldi, The paulaner Spezi is Mid range , but refreshing when its hot outside.
And you had a Spezi with Fassbrause - its alkolfree Beer with the orange - cola flavor diffrent drink
3:37 I really appreciate the effort of purchasing 29 drinks and these little cute cups you're using. Looking good 👌
Haha, I don't think the cashier at the grocery store ever guessed that is what I would be using those schnapps glasses for...😂😂
I like how when we were getting to his "old favorite" one, he said "oh yeah, we are back to better ones" and fully expecting a 7+ and then he said 5,5.
Donnie, you should ask Schwarzwaldsprudel to sponsor you. I'm sure most of your viewers never heard about that brand before. Now I've got the feeling that I have to taste it. Just out of curiosity. :-)
Fun fact: When I was a kid we often referred to Spezi as „Kalter Kaffee“, cold coffee. And since there was probably just one brand of Spezi, we had most of the time cola mixed with fanta. And that‘s obviously the best. 😉
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Dann kommst Du aber aus dem Ruhrgebiet, oder?
@@joergsi5788 Ne, ich komm vom Mittelrhein und bei uns hieß es auch so. Wobei ich denke, dass Kalter Kaffee immer für Selbstgemischtes steht.
Wir im Saarland sagen auch "Kalter Kaffee" ;-)
@@joergsi5788 Hessen. 🙂
I didn't even know that there are so many different brands! When I was a child, we used to mix Coca Cola and Fanta ourselves but sometimes we would also buy Mezzo Mix or Schwipp Schwapp. That was all we had 😄 I've never even heard of most of these brands in general. And the one children's drink looks like syrup that you have to mix with water.
And I write in print.
Paulaner and Spezi. No discussion necessary. 😄
1. Offbrand also good quality
2. Glasbottles have overall better flavor .. thats the 2 things to takeaway :D
We actually did a Spezi taste testing with my scout group a few years ago. I think we had 20 different brands. We also wanted Paulaner Spezi to be on top, but it got ranked quite low as well. I think the Freeway one was also one of the top, if not the best-tasting one. Leikeim won overall because we considered design as well. A bottle with "Bügelvershluss" is hard to beat.
I have been living abroad for 30 years and had no idea about this many brands of Spezi, which is according to my feeling the southerners' short form of Spezial. When I was a kid in the north, we used to call it Kalter Kaffee (cold coffee)! My favourite of the three or four that I know is Schwipp Schwapp Lemon taste (Pepsico).
As most Germans of my generation I learned cursive in elementary school first and wasn't allowed to write in print before high school. During high school I developed a mix type, but nowadays it is mostly print.
Same here. Cursive was taught in elementary school and after a few years of "Gymnasium" it was relaxed. I mixed styles a little, but am still mostly using cursive as my standard handwriting style (although I have horrible penmanship regardless and can barely decipher my own writing...^^
We learned that you guys have a GREAT sense of humor, a delightful way of presenting, you put a HUGE amount of effort into your videos and that your family is, well, adorable. Thanks for sharing your world with us. Print. :)
4:20 Fassbrause ("barrel soda") is originally a kind of apple lemonade that looks like beer but contains no alcohol, apparently invented in the early 20th century in Berlin. The word is still popular here. It may now be used for other kinds of sodas but that's not what it originally meant.
Rixdorfer Fassbrause is great!
Das passt ja genau richtig zum Rechtsstreit um den Namen "Spezi", der gerade zwischen Augsburg und München läuft. 😅
Genau 😅 Das habe ich auch gedacht!
Having grown up in Augsburg, where Riegele is based, I literally grew up with the original Spezi running in my veins and to this day it is the best for me.
My personal favorites are the self-mix and the Original Spezi in the 0.5 glass bottle. After this video I'll have to try the Schwarzwaldsprudel versions for sure.
You definitely didn't lose any respect with me for having mostly unknown or supermarket brands in your top five, rather the reverse. It only goes to show that it really was a blind test and your mind wasn't clouded by brand image.
I probably would have made different choices, though, because I normally like the ones that are heavy on orange taste. I actually self-mix cola with orange juice occasionally.
Great video, had a good laugh when you gave the Paulaner Spezi only the 5.5 and roasted yourself for it 😄
I like the Paulaner Spezi a lot, too, just as MezzoMix and the self-mixed Cola/Fanta. My bf prefers Mischmasch, but just like Donnie I think it tastes too orangey.
Regarding writing in cursive vs. print: I learnt to do both, print first and then cursive and then it was only allowed to write in cursive in the Grundschule for some reason amd since then it's kind of ingrained in me and the standard, so even though if I want to write print I have to concentrate not to revert back to cursive. Now I write this weird mix of both.
That's exactly what I think before I watch:"Why you don't mix it self, all others have a dump aftertaste". Black Forest tab -water is very good. I never understood why the people there and in the Alps region buy botteled water.
Not surprised that Schwarzwald-Sprudel ended up in your Top 5. I haven't tried their Spezi yet, but their other fruity sodas are among my absolute favourites. In particular their low calorie drinks are really good. They make them with more real juice than most other brands and it shows. Give the low calorie orange or lemon soda a try! And to top it off, they're pretty affordable, about 50 cents a bottle when you buy a case. (I do NOT work for Schwarzwald Sprudel! I just drink a lot of sodas.)
My wife and I do: First we fill a teaspoonful of lime syrup (Tritop) into the glass and then we fill it up with any good orange lemonade and coke. Normally we rely on ther maker Sinalco as their 1l bottles fit better into the shelf in the door of our fridge.
When I was young, I only got "diesel" - that's what the Cola-Fanta mix was and is called in our area - in the pub. It was my favourite drink.
A few years later, I tried the original Spezi on holiday at an alpine hut. It had a very fresh and somewhat fruitier taste and became my favourite.
A Diesel (drink) is beer mixed with cola, also known as Dreckiges.
@@SchmulKrieger Well, in our region, a "diesel" has been the mix of Coca Cola and Fanta since at least the early 60s. Spezi was still a beer brand back then and only became the Cola+Orange soda in 1965. In our region, Drecksack is beer with cola. It seems to vary from region to region.....
Wikipedia writes under Spezi (drink):
"Drinks made of cola with orange lemonade are also called Gwasch, Cola-Mix, Mexi or Mexikaner, Kalter Kaffee, Moorwasser, Dünnpfiff or Diesel".
@@jakeivdbach4665 yeah, I am from Hesse.
Donni, you should taste the Colas available here. My favorite is Afri-Cola. Better then Coke.
It could taste to hashi for them.
My favorite - Sonnenland Cola Mix from Hacklberg in Passau. In terms of diet, Mezzo Mix Zero is excellent!
When I was a kid we always mixed it ourselves. In my North German home we called it "Moorwasser"
HEHehheheeee. I loved this video lol, as I love all of yalls videos lol. It was fun and entertaining lol. Actually, the German Fanta orange is my favorite. As a matter of fact, I brought 14 Fanta's from Germany back to the states on my last trip and I have only one left lol. BTW, I do love the Paulaner Spetzi lol. It was great to see Aubrey pop in :). I write in cursive and I type in print lol lol lol. :). See yall in the next video.
Good test, enjoyed it :) Drinking Spezi quite a lot, also in McDonalds or BurgerKing. Mostly Mezzo Mix though or self mixed. Think I never bought one of the Sprudel brand's ones. Might try them :)
I was kind of the same, at one point I was looking for Mezzo Mix and ended up getting a Paulaner Spezi as a replacement, had no idea that it was going to be the superior version. Another time I was at a PX on an American base, asking if they sold any Mezzo Mix (wrongly believing it to be the OG) while holding up a Netto Markt brand Limmetto that I had just bought from the Doner stand outside. The cashier told me they didn't sell Mezzo Mix, but that I was better off drinking the Netto brand.
Turns out he was right, now Netto is my go to.
I learned cursive as a child but only use it for my signature. Even use print for taking notes at university.
Hi Donnie, a very interesting and surprising finish of your Spezi test. What about a Radler / Alsterwasser or a Bier + Cola Mix test? I guess the Radler variety is more common. Fun fact: I personally started to drink a Pils + Cola Mix way before it got generally sold / produced and promoted. I started to order and drink this „weird“ mix (O-Ton meiner Freunde) in our regular Kneipe in the early - mid 1970‘s. I like it even. more than Radler.
Oh I love Spezi! It's definitely my favorite soft drink. I either buy the cheap already mixed version from "gut&günsig" (Edeka) or "ja!" (rewe) or I buy the cheap Cola and Fanta by them and mix it myself.
Mixing it myself is what I like most bcs I like to have a little bit more Fanta than Cola in it. And I also like that you can still have a glass of Cola or Fanta if you're in the mood :D (or have friends that don't like Spezi)
Fun fact were I live WE also call IT cold Coffee. (NRW Left Lower Rhine)
The off-brand / supermarket brand stuff is quite often made at brand manufacturers. Different bottle and label of course and mots likely a little bit modified recipe.
Cursiv if course.
I do like Paulaner Spezi and MezzoMix the most but I also haven't tried many others. Sometimes I mix Coca-Cola with Lemon Fanta instead of Orange which is also a good combination.
Definitely print, but I can also do cursive when I am in a hurry. Yet another great video! Really enjoyed watching it. Now try all Haribo flavors ;)
ok ... next time i go to lidl will see if the freeway version is available here in spain to try it out
That's really no surprise for me - some friends of mine explicitly ask for a Cola/Fanta Mix when ordering Spezi at a restaurant, as the pre-mixed ones are often not as good. .... oh, I am writing print.
one of your best clips, really enjoed it. 29 different spezis, that is really insane. aubrey did a very good job. 👍
so the next taste test should be Radler or how it is called in the North Alster 🙃
Self mixing (whether Coke and Fanta or choosing store brands or whatever you prefer) of course has the advantage of choosing the "perfect" coke-to-orange ratio. Then again, you'll probably be more inconsistent than ready to go bottles so it can easily go down the list.
Oh, and definitely print. I was somewhat self taught and knew how to write (albeit in an ugly way) before going to school and only used cursive for school. When at 7th grade we weren't required to do that anymore - and not required anymore to use a fountain pen - I switched to print which I always used in private and a biro and may have at least doubled my writing speed and quadrupled my writing comfort.
In this case i stick to my local brewery: Klett Bräu Konzell.
(But still, I'm glad to have a change of pace every once in a while and have a different brand of beverage case at home).
Now that’s a video that no non-German will ever understand. Nice one, liked it.
Spezi is great! My favorite’s self mixed Coke+Fanta, to this day. Then Coke’s premixed MezzoMix and, occasionally, some classic Sprudel-based mix for variation. We don’t have it that often (sugar conten!) but when we do, it’s still a treat for me.
In my family it was either Coke+Fanta. Or sometimes “gelber Sprudel”+ “Cola Sprudel” (I.e. Orange soda + cola soda). Spezi was a special treat for us kids because normally we only had “Gelber/yellow Sprudel” (=Orange Soda), “Weisser/white Sprudel” (=Lemon Soda) and “Saurer/sour Sprudel” (=Carbonated mineral water) at home. Spezi was the slow introduction to caffeine and we only got it as a treat for good grades or on someone’s birthday. Then it had to be Coke+Fanta, of course. Pure Coca Cola only came much later when we got older because of the caffeine. Quite later Dad also bought MezzoMix along with Coke, Fanta and Sprite.
When I grew up, “Spezi” was (and still is) the generic term for any kind of Cola+Orange soda mix. I was in my late teens when I learned that there even was a the real “Spezi” drink which name became the generic umbrella term for the whole type of drink - like Tesa/Scotch tape or Tempo paper tissues.
Actually I liked the Coke+Fanta mix it better with the “old” Fanta like when I was a kid. They changed the Fanta recipe at some time in the 2000s to the current one. A few years ago they brought back a limited run of “Fanta Classic” - and I preferred that self mix of Coke+Fanta Classic over the “modern” one.
I think the weird after tase is artificial sweetener. Aldis River drinks are all sweetened as far as I know, and i HATE the sweeterner tasete.
I think you're right! Really was not good 😅
Sweetener is undrinkable
Its been a while, but i felt every Spezi tasted differently after a while. So taste highly depends on how much carbonated the drink is.
here in thueringen (thuringia) we have vitacola-mix and from sachsen (saxony) came bad brambacher. these two i like the most...
You should try "flumi" by Privatbrauerei Ustersbach.
There is two kinds of cola-mix. Cola+Limo and Cola+little Orange Juice, the second one is better most of the time, if mixed right.
And always drink it chilled.
maybe you should have cleared your pallette with water in between the different cups :O i think its hard to distinguish smaller differences so close after one another. Also they always taste different from a bottle or a cup or whatever container you drink from :D
I write a lot of cursive, with some print elements. Regarding the Spezis, the result was to be expected. When buying so many brands unknown to you, you are bound to find something you like more than your standard, I guess. You know, I always liked Schweppes Ginger Ale and preferred it over all no-name brands. Then I moved to Leipzig and they have a wiiiide variety of limo brands and Ginger Ale is quite popular. So there my taste buds could explore a wide variety of Ginger Ale. Ever since, the one and only good Ginger Ale will be Margon to me. Unfortunately, they don't cater to Hamburg, so basically, my taste buds are "verdorben". I will have to go to Leipzig to get some Ginger Ale, I guess.
Full on Schwip Schwap fan here.
Sometimes i get some Schwip Schwap that tastes totally different than i'm used to. It depends on the Abfüllstelle.
This is crazy! Never thought there would be so many...
My favourite is Kuchlbauer Spezi, Leikeim is very good too, Paulaner , Doc Schneiders Spezifikum , Flötzinger.
It didn't really surprise me that some of the top were grocery store brands. Lidl has some very good products in their cheap option shelf (although I don't really like the freeway-drinks)
When it comes to Spezi, I usually go for Paulaner, but when I'm around my hometown, there are some local varieties.
Oh, and for the question: I write both in an ever changing ratio, depending on mood, daytime and purpose
I personally experienced huge differences in Quality within the same brand of a lot of the cheaper ones, while bigger brands are more consistant in flavor. Paulaner Spezi is good for that, but I also would not rank it as my top but still within the ones I would choose more regularly.
When you want some better flavor in a self-mix, just try and substitute Fanta with either Orangina or San Pellegrino Arranciata.
Yep, Orangina is the best orange soda. I first drank it when I was in France 30 year’s because of school exchange and then also I first saw the biggest supermarket in my life, a Carrefour. Now they are even in Spain. But Orangina is a little bit pricey here and originally they are filled in little Asterix magic potion like bottles.
I am a huge Spezi fan, and I think I would have to say Paulaner or Schwip Schwap are the best. But Fanta/Cola self mix works for me as well.
5:30 speaking of coffee, in some parts of Germany you may get a Spezi/Cola-Mix if you order a "kalter Kaffee".
In some parts of Germany, the beverage is also called "Diesel". But this is rare, more often than not "Diesel" would be cola mixed with beer.
Ah ya! I think I remember hearing this years ago and completely forgot about that...thanks for that info! 😃
Wait. So you mix Cola with Fanta and mix that with Cola. Is that what you're saying? WTF? :)
@@xaverlustig3581 no. "Cola-Mix" is a generic name for "Spezi", as most companies are not allowed to call their product "Spezi".
@@arthur_p_dent Oh I thought it's a drink that consists of mixing Spezi with Cola. Stupid me :)
Oh my, just thinking of all the Pfand you guys will have to return after this XD Interesting experiment, also I had no idea how many Spezis exist and haven't really had one since childhood. I think I'll give it another try this summer.
For me it's print due to my terrible handwriting...in print others (and myself) can decipher it more easily!
5:26 That's kinda funny. There are regions in Germany where Spezi is called cold coffee.
I prefer Cola with orange juice.
One of the reasons for your order might be the order that you tried the samples.
Cursive or print: When I write for me to read -- cursive, when others have to read it -- often print. There is a reason for it. I usually don't handwrite much anymore.
I love the 11:26 "LAMMSBRÄU now" one and generally Fritz drinks (one example shown in 8:14) - both of which you didn't rate very high - but I still love them :-)
Haha, everybody has their own preferences 😊 I'll have to give them another try!
Maybe they'd also taste differently fresh from the glass bottle (and refrigerated, of course :-) 🤷🏼♀️ - but just generally I think I like the ones with a stronger orangey flavour - which didn't seem a great preference of yours... So, as you said: To each their own ;-)
You should've tried Bluna-Mix too. Which is half Bluna half Afri-Cola
15:07 for example and 15:38 e.g. = great editing 👏👏
Thanks so much! I worked really hard on it and it definitely is nice knowing it is appreciated 😊
It is!
And I imagine this being difficult - since I wouldn't know how. to. do. it. At. all... 🤷🏼♀️
Paulaner Spezi and Almdudler (an Austrian lemonade), those are my two favourite drinks
Sehr unterhältsames video ist zwar warscheinlich viel Arbeit gewesen aber gut geworden ❤
this was fun... Didn´t know Sinalco still exist... what a fun testing.... Mezzomix was not in the choices? or did I missed it? it is not easy to make a fair testing - Temperatur can change (they warm up) there are clearly some flavours left in your mouth from other glasses and sometimes drinks get better when you drink more.... but it was funny...
Instead of coke and Fanta as a kid I sometimes mixed coke and sprite instead. Wasn't that bad either
Btw. Lidl's Freeway drinks belong to the Coca-Cola Company. If Coca-Cola Is to expensive for you just buy the cheaper Coke at Lidl. 😆
Interesting! Had no idea 😅
You should also try VitaCola. This is Cola flavoured with lemon and has a very delicious taste. 👍
Disclaimer: Drinking sugar is not healthy and carbonated it gets you twice a fat 😅
Do this only on weekend 👍
Vita Cola is probably hard to get in his part off Germany because it’s from the east part and still not very common in the west. It’s the #1 in the east part 😎I would prefer Vita cola over Coca Cola or Pepsi anytime! I’m biased because I crow up with this one and Schmalkalden is almost wright around the corner from where I live.
enjoyed, thank you
My #1 is "Vita Cola Mix" (You missed it, but it's maybe difficult to get in west germany, it's from thuringia), #2 is the freeway lidl one
Self-mixed Cola and fanta is indeed the best Spezi, so you did a good job 👍
Hi Guys , I have been living in Germany for over 50 years. I live in Ruthweiler close to Kusel rite below Burg Lichtenberg I met my future wife in1972 on the Kusele
Messe.Been living here ever since.You can visit us anytime.I came over here in 1971and was stationed in Baumholder for 3 years..We are not far away. It might make an interresting video for you Guys.
How about showing/ tasting some of the many, many krauters? All that is known here in the U.S. is Jagermeister, on my visits to Deutschland, I have seen many types.
Great video! I also love Spezi and like to try different brands. My favourite is the original Spezi and I don't like the Paulaner Spezi, btw. ;-) Also Mezzo Mix is not my favourite, too sweet. Oh, and I really like the Fritz Kola "Mischmasch" that you rated low saying it has a too strong orange taste. Guess that's exactly what I like about it. :-) My least favourite so far would probably be the "now" Orange Cola Mix that you also rated quite low. It is indeed very weird. It's supposed to belong to organic food (can't recall having seen it in regular supermarkets yet), maybe that's the problem with it. :-)
Oh, and forgot to mention: The self-mix is OK to me, but not my favourite. Because Fanta is my least favourite orange lemonade actually. :-)
Tolles Video. Probiert Mal folgende Cola Mix Getränke: Schwupp (Allguth Tankstellen) oder Flötzinger.
I don't like the taste of Coke mixed with orange, but I am glad you liked the Lidl brand, because I like their regular coke. I wonder whether Schwarzwald -Sprudel sells coke, too.
Sinalco is a German brand it means "sine alcohol" = ohne/ without alcohol
I guess my answer to the question of the week is suitable to the topic of the video: A mix of cursive and print.
The winner ist evident
I just tasted the Freeway one cause its the favorit drink of a friend from germany.
How did you mix cola and fanta? When I was a child I experimented a lot to find the best ratio. I found out that my favorite coke to fanta ratio is 3:1
Some say, Paulaner (brewery) does this to bond the kids to the brand. If they change to beer as an adult, they might still choose Paulaner.
Or while young, they can drink a Paulaner with their dad together, the kid this Spezi, the dad the beer.
Cursive of course, I'm old fashioned :)
Cursive, of course, bc you can write so much faster in the flow. Print is so hard with its stop and go. Even when I try to print, I always fall back into cursive. [I'm German]
Not everywhere it's called Spezi. In Hesse it's called Kalter Kaffee oder Kaffeelimo. My favourite version is a selfmade mix with lemonade from lemons from our water brand and Afri Cola. The Version to buy is by Sinalco.
Make a chocolate taste test next but be sure to include Hachez and Fedora and keep it on par like milk chocolate only or dark chocolate only without mix ins.
Surprisingly entertaining watching you try a bunch of muddy looking drinks from Schnapps glasses ;-)
Lol, glad you enjoyed! 😅
@@PassportTwo I’m still watching, but the “beans” taste reminded me of wine tastings we used to do with a friends group. The host picks a grape and provides dinner and everyone brings a bottle of wine of that grape. After tasting 10ish wines we sometimes were convinced that they were mix drinks because some of the wine notes were so prominent.
I actually never tried a Spezi. It's sweet+sweet. Favourite Cola mix would be Cuba Libre (also available ready mixed in cans).
Generally I stick to Radler.
I´m writing in print after been told back in school my cursive is super hard to read. So instead of improoving on my cursive I´ve gone the easy route and switched to print. Call me lazy, I´m fine with that. Nowadays I´m very glad I almost don´t even have to write by hand at all. Never learded typing and I´m not good at it but it´s still my prefered way to get things written down.
And on topic of the video: I´m grown up before "light", "sugar free" and "zero" was a thing but prefer MexxoMix Zero over the sugar version in taste today.
I don't drink any of those sugary sodas. But my brother's favorite is Pepsi's SchwipSchwap.
I also don't particularly like the fanta by itself, but mixing cola + fanta is by far the best spezi. You can finetune it by doing different ratios. Personally I prefer like 60% fanta and 40% cola.
You need to try some real Berlin made Fassbrause it tastes so good
12:35 dont worry germans kinda love the cheap house brands because they knew its from the same factory as the name brands and sometimes the cheap one are actually better
At least with soft drinks, it is often a multi step process. You might buy the syrup from the same place that they make the name brands, or give a bottle of Paulaner Spezi to a different syrup maker to ape it. But then they sometimes mix it with different water at different factories or carbonate it differently: for example Lidl/Kaufland have their own soda production.
SPezi now exists in America under the name Paulaner Sunset. Dunno how different it is through.
A nice alternative name is “Kalter Kaffee” which translates to cold coffee, but this will only work in certain parts of Germany
A foreigner would probably get an iced coffee, if ordering this.
I don't really like Spezi, but I love your videos! Keep up the good work! :)
Also my handwriting is just horrible... :D
Danke ☺️
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Not surprised at all that you went with the self-mixed one as your winner. The kid version of me would agree that the self-mixed one is better than all of the industry mixes. The same, with a much larger gap between them, goes for self-mixed Apfelschorle and its industry mixed versions: you can't water down the former but certainly the latter.
Also, using the two originals to mix for yourself gives you the opportunity for the two separate flavors as well.
Wie wäre es mal die geschmäcker mal zu testen ,aber die mix Getränke aus dland wie Radler, berlinerweisse, Diesel, krefelder, kaltemuschi etc.