Mike asked me to enter "Radler" into the German-English search engine. The result was not the drink I am familiar, but "cyclist". It sounds like the right drink for me after hearing the history of the dring. Here is the text I lifted from Wickipedia (seemed accurate since it matched Mike's story).
The Radler (“cyclist”) is a beverage consisting of a 50%/50% or 60%/40% mixture of lager beer and German-style lemonade. It was invented by the Munich gastronomer Franz Xaver Kugler in September 1922 when approximately 13,000 cyclists visited his tavern. His beer started to run out, so he cleverly mixed the remaining beer with lemonade and pretended he created the Radler especially for the cyclists so that they could ride home without the risk of falling off their bicycles. Nowadays the Radler is not just drunk only in Bavaria but across Germany and Austria. During the summer months, Radler is very popular there due to its reputation of being a thirst-quencher.
We rode 56 miles today, so guess what I am drinking right now!
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