Germany has it's own SECRET FLAVOR?
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There are six flavors humans can taste: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami and Waldmeister 😂
@Sir_Melgrim
10 ай бұрын
And pain!?
@KakaoHammerhead
10 ай бұрын
I know you're joking, but some people seem to think that taste is really just a mixture of what the tongue can sense (sour, salty, sweet, bitter, umami), but taste, especially the taste of Waldmeister consist of the tongue sense and the smell combined.
@SchmulKrieger
10 ай бұрын
umami ist schlicht Maggi.
@SchmulKrieger
10 ай бұрын
@@DeDabbelyou seit wann ist Maggi salzig? 🤔
@user-cx6kt3ku2f
10 ай бұрын
@@KakaoHammerheadOk, I‘m risking falling for some joke here but what the hell is Umami supposed to be?
I see the color and I already have the taste in my head. Soo intense 😂
@tir0815
10 ай бұрын
What can you compare the taste to? I barely even eat stuff thats Waldmeister, maybe ahoy brause, or offbrand ice (not cream, literally just flavored ice).
@jennyh4025
10 ай бұрын
@@tir0815I can’t think of anything that tastes similar.
@kuessebrama
10 ай бұрын
@@tir0815 it cannot be compared it just tastes like Waldmeister :D It is herbal, fruty i don't know anything that tastes like it, maybe there is something but if there is something i don't know about it.
@tir0815
10 ай бұрын
@@kuessebrama i just thought for a seccond to eat grass as a comparrison😂
@voyance4elle
10 ай бұрын
true :D
Waldmeister tastes herbal but without being bitter at all, along with subtle notes of mint and a slight fruitiness.
@ChicaTiquita
10 ай бұрын
I think it also taste a bit like nuts. The real one only, not the artificial one
@isisnoreija
10 ай бұрын
I think it tastes green 😅
@P0rn0ralle84
10 ай бұрын
And a Bit Vanilla flavour
It took me years to realise, that when there is green jello seen in American media (like a movie or a tv-show), it's NOT Waldmeister but Green Apple. Just like the salted popcorn.
It is so strange that woodruff is so unknown outside Germany. It's flavor is really unique and not comparible to anything else I know. On the other hand, most Germans only know the artificial flavor and have never tried real woodruff themselves. I myself like woodruff very much, especially as a child everything with woodruff always my favorite (ice cream, jello, sherbet, syrup etc.)
@Angellucifer73
10 ай бұрын
Maybe you can compare this experience with the american Root Beer. It doesn't taste the same but it's not or rarely known in good ol' Germany. I like both.
@mulraf
10 ай бұрын
I mean sometimes i wonder about that too, then i remember it's the same for other places. I have never had something ube flavored and heard of it very late in my life but i'd reckon if you are from the phillipines there's loads of ube flavored stuff. And a similar story with many other ingredients most of us may not even have heard off.
@allmyduns2167
10 ай бұрын
there is a drink from my childhood called "Tarhun" that has Waldmeister flavor and it's originally a russian soda. THough it is estragon-limonade, it definitley tastes like waldmeister and markets itself like this as well. Just wanting to say the flavor isn't so much unknown, still unkown, but not everywhere excpet germany
@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682
10 ай бұрын
@@MaskharatThe production of the syrup and the jello is industrialized, indeed, so I don't get you?
@blatterrascheln2267
10 ай бұрын
@@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682It isn't. Mostly it's artificial flavour, because natural woffruff isn't allowed over 2% ingredient. It contains cumarin, that's toxic in higher doses.
In Hesse, where I grew up, it was a tradition to go for a walk into the forrest on may 1th, collecting woodruff an make a bowle with it in applewine to greet the springtime.
@zeisselgaertner3212
10 ай бұрын
In order to get the full flavour you tie the shoots to a bundle and dry them. When dried you add the bundle for like one hour to the wine in the bowl and than remove it. If it would stay much longer in the liquid it would become toxic.
@ralfbenatzky886
10 ай бұрын
@@zeisselgaertner3212 Exactly ;-)
Woodruff - known as Sweet Woodruff in the UK. Not used much there anymore though. Germany is interesting to me (as a British Germany-living person) in that they have a habit of using flavours and ingredients that (sadly) dropped out of use in the UK. It sometimes takes me back to my childhood
@observer110
10 ай бұрын
you should do a youtube channel on that 😂
Waldmeister is nice, as long as you don't overdo it. This beer with Waldmeister is a Berlin speciality, elsewhere its not so popular. The sirup is used for making lemonades, jello or also long drinks, ice cream ect. As someone here suggests, another german flavor is Hagebutte. It made from the fruits of wild roses. Quite popular as herbal tea, but also marmelade. Dont know if its a thing in the US, too. Probably too healthy, I guess... :)
@solaccursio
10 ай бұрын
it's packed with vitamin C and delicious too!
@raketensven3127
10 ай бұрын
Hagebuddne*
@wezerd
10 ай бұрын
@@raketensven3127ich frag mich was der gute Ryan von Herrn Winkler halten würde
@solar0wind
10 ай бұрын
@@raketensven3127 *Hagebutte
@roderich7549
10 ай бұрын
In franken we call this marmelade Hiffenmark. Yummy! 🥰🥰
Wondering if Ryan is ever gonna set up a P.O. Box, so we can send him the typical food and drinking stuff over to try in a video (maybe some even more local things)
@armitage9204
10 ай бұрын
He had a P.O. box.
@Swaeggi
10 ай бұрын
@@armitage9204 oh, didn’t know that, it’s not that long, that I watch his videos, so that was just a thought that came into mind
@armitage9204
10 ай бұрын
@@Swaeggi Die Adresse stand in den Videobeschreibungen seiner Australienvideos. Er hat auch mit seiner Frau ein Tastingvideo gemacht. Aber keine Ahnung, warum er die Adresse nicht mehr nennt.
@Angellucifer73
10 ай бұрын
Vielleicht kam zu viel und/oder auch andere unangehme Post
@Custom32TT
10 ай бұрын
Habe mal vor Monaten geschaut. Sind um die 70€ Versand. Ist mir dann doch etwas zu viel 😂
Any of the four Ahoj Brause Pulver (powder) flavours + vodka shots = perfection.
Sweet woodruff... unbeatable as Ice Cream.
That actually unlocked a childhood memory of me. Where I come from in Germany (around Cologne) we usually got this flavour with either jelly or "Kratzeis" (which translates to "Scratch ice") it's hard ice, which you scratch with a spoon and then eat. In my childhood we usually bought it in summer for 50 cents at a Kiosk after school or traded in or Pfand water bottles we used at school to buy it. It had like 4 or 5 flavour and most kids chose Waldmeister. After that everyone took their ice to the nearesr river or playground and just ate it there together :)
waldmeister is cool. It's not something we'd have a often but when you taste it once in a while it's always nice. And the Ahoi Brause powder she had really is one the most genuine examples. These powder work well with vodka etc. so young people get it even after they are out of the age where you live for candy.
@kratzikatz1
10 ай бұрын
Make Wackelpudding 2ith vodka and Waldmeister, and suck it trough a straw. 🎉😊
@marcovonfrieling8762
10 ай бұрын
@@kratzikatz1 There's also a version to "make it" in your mouth, by first putting the Ahoi powder in your mouth and then the vodka...
@karowolkenschaufler7659
10 ай бұрын
when I was little, some children in my school class just straight up snorted the powder... judging by their faces, it hurt.
In summer when it is hot in Germany like it today , a home-made woodruff punch made from white wine, sparkling wine , water, sugar , woodruff and fresh lemon tastes refreshing.🍹
The Party people in Germany Sometimes uses Götterspeise with Waldmeister flavour and make IT with Vodka Not with water
We made woodruff sirup ourselves a few times. You have to gather the plants at exactly the right time in spring, dry them (only the drying releases the chemical responsibile for the flavor), then soak the dried leaves in sugar water, and finally cook and bottle the sirup. Nice, but in the end we decided it was not worth the effort. Elderflower sirup, on the other hand, is much easier to make and more refreshing.
In French this herb is known as "aspérule odorante" and is used - among other things - to make a very popular flavored white wine in southern Belgium and Luxembourg, called Maitrank.
Woodruff has a very short season. You can smell it in early May if you walk in the woods, but literally only for a few days. A Maibowle is a punch made with woodruff steeped in chilled white wine or sparkling wine. Haven't had it for years!!!!
@nina-thi
10 ай бұрын
I dug some Waldmeister up in the forest in April and replanted it on my balcony. It continued to grow and I made Maibowle just before it could flower. If I don’t kill it before then, technically because of the plant’s rhizomes, it should grow back next year. Worked in my parents’ backyard for years
actually Waldmeister is an eurasian plant but it also grows wild as a neophyte in Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and Vermont. fun fact: nobody in germany associates green liquid with apple. apple juice is golden. green = Waldmeister. We would rather associate green with lime than with apples.
@flowerdolphin5648
10 ай бұрын
But in terms of candy green is still always green apple more than anything else.
@Equilibrium2903
10 ай бұрын
Yea, there is even a woodraff industry in the US. Woodraff was actually imported by Germans pretty early on. I visited the US multiple times and everytime I randomly stumbled onto local waldmeister products. Called something else of course, but still.
I am from Germany and ist actually never came to my mind that green jello got a diffrent flavor in other countrys. It is and always will be Waldmeister for me
Yeah, Waldmeister Götterspeise and the Berliner Weisse with Waldmeister is what i know the most. Also in school we had a soda machine where one option was Waldmeister lemonade, it was very popular at that time at least, back in the 70s.
Waldmeister is only in season during spring. It grows in shady and moist places in some woods or can be grown in a shady garden. You collect some stems with leaves and hang the little bouquet for a day (or maybe a little more? Don't remember. But it just goes a little limp, not crispy dry). Then it develops a more intense flavour. With that you can infuse drinks or whatever you want. Typical would be "Mai Bowle" - some kind of cold sparkling wine punch (?). You can buy it in a bottle around May but it's not nearly the same as home made. My friend's mum used to make a sweet spead from white grape juice infused with Waldmeister. YUMMY! My garden unfortunately is way to sunny for Waldmeister plants.
The only time, I ate Waldmeister (as far as I know), that was Götterspeise ("meal of the gods") or as we called it "Wackelpudding". For me both are linked heavily together.
@danielseeh
10 ай бұрын
Ich habe es auch als brause gegessen . Ist aber schon 20 Jahre her.
@MrsStrawhatberry
10 ай бұрын
It’s called jelly in English
Even before I clicked on the video, I knew it had to be about Waldmeister... my Grandma loved to put the syrup into her beer.
@Ossey1976
10 ай бұрын
And to add to this, I went beverage shopping for my parents today and found a 6-Pack of Berliner Weisse at my usual store... when I am back there for my own shopping, I am going to get that, didnt have it for at least 20 years, so kind of thanks for the reminder, Ryan!
3:12 the plant has an extremely strong flavor. I’ve read something about making Waldmeister jello on your own (with fresh Waldmeister), and it’s only like 1% of the thing Edit: I’ve read it like 5 years ago and only remember that it specifically said to be careful and not use too much. 7:19 by German law, that’s not a beer. It’s more like a cocktail. And you can put ice cubes into cocktails all you want 9:20 lemonade. Limonade is lemonade. 11:04 green gummy bears are also usually green apple here in Germany.
@geraldbostock6665
11 ай бұрын
i dont get it either. waldmeister has such a strong, intense flavour. how could one call its flavour subtle?^^
@DSP16569
11 ай бұрын
Limonade (German) =(flavored) Soda (English) - Lemonade (english) = Tab Water+ sugar + lemon Juice
@djvillan
10 ай бұрын
@@DSP16569 you meant tap water, not tab water 🙂
@Anson_AKB
10 ай бұрын
"Berliner Weiße" is beer, brewed from wheat and fermented by using a mixture of yeast and lactic acid bacteria, but no other "strange ingredients" like rice or whatever. I find it to be a bit sour, and thus you traditionally drink it with a shot of sweet syrup ("Berliner Weiße mit Schuß"), either red raspberry or green Waldmeister. For a few decades, beer-mix drinks became more common (also see "Radler") and thus you nowadays can buy premade "Berliner Weiße mit Schuß". Of course, that premade version "with shot" causes it to no longer be "pure beer", but the "Berliner Weiße" (without shot) still is a wheat beer. ps: the traditional glass is a big wide bowl, and served with a straw, mostly on a summer trip/jaunt/spree(?), but it is no real cocktail and served cold but not with ice.
@netrick02
10 ай бұрын
The actual plant doesn't have such a strong taste though? At least when I chewed on the raw leaves, maybe cooking it developes the aroma?
Waldmeister taste herbal, floral, leafy and earthy all at the same time and it shares at least one of its main flavor compounds with cinnamon. I feel like it has hints of Lily of the valley, too. And it can only be harvested and used for a very short time, before it blossoms in spring, I believe. It is very delicate and prone to spoiling, that's why you see more of the sugary syrups and powdered forms. All ways of preserving the flavour for use around the year. Also, I find it isn't "everywhere" or in your face. You can get a few Waldmeister flavoured items in each supermarket, but it's not a staple. I can't remember the last time I had something Waldmeisterflavored or actively noticing products around. They are there, but you have to seek them out.
Elderflower, rosehip, wood ruff and rhubarb are aromas that I rarely hear in the US. O maybe I hang with the wrong crowd but if you haven't tried these.. They are all flavors you get quite often in Germany. Def worth a try!
Ooooh… Waldmeister (literally wood master) ice cream with a squirty cream topping is DELICIOUS
we need to send him a german snack box with waldmeister :)
@GeschichtenUndGedanken
10 ай бұрын
Timo, I had a taste of Waldmeister Brause a while ago. They put artificial sugar-stuff in it...
@MetalGuitarTimo
10 ай бұрын
@@GeschichtenUndGedanken nicht immer :)
@GeschichtenUndGedanken
10 ай бұрын
@@MetalGuitarTimo Hurraaa, es besteht Hoffnung! Dankeschön, Timo
"What flavor ...?" "McDonalds" 😂😂
Waldmeister is a medicinal and aromatic plant. It grows as a herb under the trees. In foods it is used as a spice, but green coloring and sugar are often added. The plant is often used as a flavoring for drinks. Up to 3 gram per 1 liter is used. In folk medicine, the herb is used as an anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic. It helps with dizziness and anxiety. But if the dose is too high, it is slightly intoxicating and may by toxic. It can also be used as a moth repellent.
@winterlinde5395
10 ай бұрын
Das mit den Motten wusste ich nicht. Danke! Ich habe Waldmeister überall im Garten- werde ich gleich mal ausprobieren 🌸
@lauramarschmallow2922
10 ай бұрын
I think it has a component which is toxic (of course in certain amounts) and the aroma is toxic free. also I presume it's cheaper to massproduce a chemical duplicate, but I'm not sure.
@p3chv0gel22
10 ай бұрын
@@lauramarschmallow2922i don't think i ever bought Waldmeister aroma or anything. That stuff just grows a lot where i live (to the point that my neighbour propably has more Waldmeister in his Garden than actual grass lol)
@winterlinde5395
10 ай бұрын
@@p3chv0gel22 I plan to swap a small patch of lawn in the front yard for Waldmeister. So that we don’t have to mow it anymore 😃
When i was a child you could also get small and hard candy "bars" with waldmeister flavour, usually at a "Tante Emma Laden" or the little kiosk next to school. Also the Cola-, Erdbeer- and Waldmeisterschnüre (waldmeister strings?). Even as an adult, i prefer Waldmeister ice cream to any other icecream. I hardly eat icecream, but sometimes i walk around and ask: "Do you have Waldmeister ice cream?" "No." "Thank you, good bye." :D
@benbobomb
10 ай бұрын
Have you tried the Waldmeister Eis from die Eisheiligen? You can get it at a tegut and it‘s awesome!
"Germans seem to think that Americans put ice cubes in beer". That look at 7:08. 😄
So strange - in Austria this flavour was more or less unknown in my childhood. When "Waldmeister" was mentioned somewhere, the person was a german or he spoke about something Germany related ("german german", german spoken in Germany, not in Austria). Only media and food industry introduced in in the last decades.
Here's something else that isn't really known in the US: Hagebutten marmelade, a sweet jam made from rosehips. It has a flavor somewhere between apricot, apples and orange.
@Bioshyn
11 ай бұрын
and sanddorn, felsenbirne, schlehe, holunder(blüten)...
@Al69BfR
10 ай бұрын
@@BioshynI would add Quitte to the list.
@chong3270
10 ай бұрын
purer Sand ist auch nicht schlecht
@Bioshyn
10 ай бұрын
just learned that black currant red currant and gooseberries aren't a thing in the US either
I have Waldmeister in my garden (bought it as littel plant in a garden shop for €4,5) and use it to flavorise my drinking water. I put some leaves + lemon + tap water into a carafe and put them over night into the fridge. If you dont want to wait over night, one could use boiled water wich you let cool down. The German term Meister is not rellly good translated with master, as master also means lord. The German term Meister means master in the meaning of senior expert like with the apprentice-journeyman-master scheme.
the waldmeister powder is insane! as kids we used to eat it all the time and also snort it for fun sometimes, really gives you a kick ^^
Waldmeister is kind of sweet lime and mint, I think that's the best way to describe it. It doesn't taste earthy, pretty much just sweet and very slightly sour though that could just be the ahoy brause by itself lmao. It's kind of our equivalent to blue raspberry since that's a flavor we just don't have here commonly, and usually comes in the form of drinks or slushies! It's really a childhood and summer must have
Umami is special. The basic tastes are sweet, sour, salty and bitter and now, there is umami, which tastes like "good or meaty". Waldmeister on the other hand is just a flavour like strawberry, orange or vanilla. The plant itself and sirup from the plant contains some stuff that prevents blood clotting and therefore should not be consumed in large quantities. But I think most of the flavour in sweets is not natural today.
That beer at 06:09 is actually "Berliner Weiße mit Schuss". This is a specialty in Berlin, a local beer (which tastes more or less like any good beer), flavored with a small amount ("Schuss" means "shot") of Waldmeister syrup, others prefer it with raspberry syrup. The first mixture is green as shown, with raspberry syrup it is red, of course.
You really need to try Waldmeister. It's so good !
9:16 „The Limonade 😂 (German for lemonade ) kind of completely took over the flavor“ … word are so similar, that Dana used the German word 😂
Wait? That Flavor is german exclusive? It's so natural to me as a german i never considered that.
Waldmeister.... You hate it or love it 😂
I love Waldmeister 🌵🌿☘️🍀🌳
6:30 "Berliner Weiße" is a light beer with high yeast and low alcohol, typically enjoyed on a hot summer day. But it's never ever drunk as is, but only with a shot of either raspberry or Waldmeister syrup. You can buy it pre mixed, but you can as well buy beer and syrup separately.
I actually buy Waldmeister syrup regularly. You just mix it with (tap) water. It is much less weight than buying an already mixed drink. There are also soda machines if you want to make a soda instead of flavored water.
@kc2dtp
10 ай бұрын
Where do you buy Waldmeister syrup?
@dragons4thchild
10 ай бұрын
@@kc2dtp just in case: I live in Germany. So I can't say if any stores overseas offer it. Here I buy them from REWE. It's about 2€. In my experience the mixture on the package is too much, so I mix it with more water.
@kc2dtp
10 ай бұрын
@@dragons4thchild Thanks. I will look for it here in the US. Tschüß , Antje
09:10 Jelly/Jello is "Götterspeise" (food of the Gods) or "Wackelpudding" (wobbly pudding). But you don't eat it just like that, but with custard. It's a must.
woodruff actually grows all around the world in moderate climates. usually in the shade in mountainous areas but it is quite rare. Collected in may before it blooms and usually fermented before turned into beverages. But the Waldmeister you can buy in supermarkets is just artificial flavouring. Usually no one craves it until summer comes along. then it even sells out sometimes xD lemon and rasberry was actually quite close. I'd say add some wheatgrass juice and you get an idea what the artificial flavour tastes like. I actually found a spot in the woods nearby where it grows but since it is only good to be harvested for about two weeks and I am forgetful I never tried making my own Waldmeistersirup so I can't say what the real deal tastes like.
In 7th grade my class went on a field trip into a near forest where the mother of a classmate worked for a bunch of stuff and afterwards we also drank some Waldmeister juice made with the plant. Definitely a favourite flavour of mine
We have Waldmeister in our garden, but you can find it in forests. You can freeze it and then add a bit of the frozen plant to table water for the flavour.
If you can find them, try "Maiblätter" from Rudi Jahnke. That is waldmeister hard candy. Together with their raspberry candy and "Chilestangen" probably my favorite German childhood candy. :-) They are really good.
4:50 - You buy a syrup so you can mix it with milk. Tastes great! :)
Hi, from Germany,please make a video trying it by yourself, the taste of waldmeister is very unique. in germany we have a tradition, on 30th of April is "Tanz in den Mai" we celebrate the upcoming Spring and we go out dancing with family and friends and there is a Special sparkling wine called " MAI BOWLE" Bowle is like Punch its name is rom the Moth may. i love it
I actually make my own Waldmeisterschnaps. It is very common in Bowle though.
Many countries have flavouring based on popular local ingredients or flavour combos. I.e. Germany has Waldmeister, rhubarb and even things like KiBa ( cherry- banana which I hate with a passion), Poland has lots of sweets with poppyseed, the Nordic countries have lots of licorice flavoured candy (licorice toffee etc). Japan had lots of 'soda' flavoured candy and ice cream next to the traditional flavourings like azuki beans, kinako or matcha. I really miss the soda flavour. Can't find anything with that kind of flavour here in Europe.
@timweber4318
10 ай бұрын
KiBa ist lecker. Versteh dein Problem nicht
@Katharina14031982
10 ай бұрын
@@timweber4318 Ist halt Geschmackssache!
@GGysar
10 ай бұрын
@@timweber4318 Bäh.
Waldmeister is a nice flower, yes, it grows like a weed, spreading a sweet scent. Usually green gummibears have other flavours. Waldmeister is being used for Syrup, icecream, jelly-desert (we call it Wackelpudding - floppy desert), and "Bowle" - which is a cocktail served in a bowl before being put in a glass. The scientific name is galium odoratum. If you want to compare it to something - it tastes like the sweet flower that it is - maybe jasmin is a little bit similar in the scent. And Waldmeister tastes like it smells. If you get the syrup, you can also use it as flavour for the cream of the cake. Did so for my youngest son, we loved it. The white cream became only a little bit greenish but it had the nice flavour.
i saw the image and the green and i thought... "Waldmeister"... you can't get more german than that. AHOI BRAUSE.... aaah childhood flashbacks incoming... but you dont need the water, just pour it right into your mouth.
Berliner Kindl Weiße is a sour beer. You typically put syrup of Waldmeister or Rasperry in it to sweeten it. And no you cannot put ice cubes in the beer! The amount of syrup seems to be fine, otherwiese, there is an instruction on the bottle.
Waldmeister taste is kinda hard to describe, but if I had to, I'd say it tastes like herbs, but not bitter and with a very subtle sweetness and kinda this fruity hit. In any case, if you've ever had it, you'll know what the color green tastes like.
Hi, Ryan! By the way: one plant component of Waldmeister is medical used as an anticoagulant to treat thick blood in order to avoid thrombosis! This component is called "Coumarin". So you should therefore not overdo it with woodruff/ Waldmeister because of POSSIBLE side effects when you take medication. But I think a Waldmeister-Jello, a Waldmeister-icecream or a "Berliner Weiße mit Schuss" (the beer with Waldmeister sirup) is ok!!! 😋😄 Just to say: Berliner Weiße mit Schuss is also available in red color with raspberry sirup.
Waldmeister is one of my favorite flavors. And either you love the favor or you hate it I guess 😂
I love Waldmeister. It's the best ice cream and as a child I used to often get Spaghetti ice with Waldmeister ice cream instead of vanilla. Or as jello and soda. I've got a bottle of waldmeister syrup standing on my desk next to me right now :D
I collected waldmeister in the forest for a few years, but making something out of it, it never tastes like the artificial taste that is in the sirups sweets etc. The flavor in the plants is in the mitochondria and is only released when the plant "dies". When you rub the leaf in your fingers it takes a while until you can smell the waldmeister smell. When you have a few plants and put them into the freezer for a night and hang them in a room, you get a fresh waldmeister room scent mixed with summerly hay-flavor ^^ But using it for food or anything else its neither very strong nor green. That is something the industrie made up.
Btw, regarding getting Waldmeister yourself: In Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and Vermont you can find it thanks to humans bringing it there, so you might find a US company selling it. Would be cheaper than importing it (and good for your bank account when you like it and want more in the future)
It's indeed indescribable and totally unique as a taste. I'm 100% sure you can get the jelly somewhere if you want to try it. It's delicious.
I love how she has Frankenmuth on her Board representing a Brezel. I love Greta van Fleet btw ^^
The "Berliner Weisse" Waldmeister drink is basically mandatory to drink, when you are new to Berlin. You take a little sightseeing boat tour on the Spree-river while sipping on that. Nice & refreshing drink
There are only six flavors our tounge can taste. All the others, often fruit flavors are actually smelled with the nose while eating and are something like fragrances.
Like most herbs, woodruff can be eaten fresh but gains much in taste, when it is dried. It grows in woods and gardens in the spring and is dried to make Maibowle/May punch with white wine or champagne or apple wine
"Which flavor reminds you of your childhood?" - "Erm.... McDonalds." - laughing my a* off! :-D
Waldmeister is my absolutely favorite taste
Waldmeister is Love 🥰
Waldmeister comes with a quite subtle flavor. But it‘s very special. You either likes I or not. Waldmeister also belong to that sort of plants which has some kind of healing effects to your body. Aaaaaand the distilled essence of the plants blossom brings you some energy and a euphoric feeling 😉
I don't even know if you can buy woodruff as a plant in stores. Actually almost all products are flavored woodruff products. Woodruff jello is particularly well-known. Either raspberry or woodruff. The Berliner Weißbier is also often served with a mixture made from woodruff syrup. Woodruff is similar to liquorice. Either you like it or you don't like it. There is no in between. I like both liquorice and woodruff.
I am from Berlin. Berliner Weisse mit Schuss is a special drink in Berlin for summer. But you can also have the pink or red version which is with raspberry.
You can buy Berliner Weiße without Syrup as well. It is a really sauer beer, and only tastes good with Syrup. To mix that, there are special Bowl shaped Berliner Weisse glasses as well
I am pretty sure you will finde German Ahoj Brause in America too. At a German Grocery store like Lidl or Aldi or something like that. You need to go and try it out, especially the Waldmeister flavored one!
The mixture of sparkling wine and Waldmeister is called Maibowle and is traditionally drunken on the 1st of May (Day of work).
Back in the 70ies, green was always woodruff and it was my favorit flavour. Then it changed (sadly) to green apple and since maybe 10 or 15 years, woodruff comes up again. Avoid "Ahoi Brause" (this cool aid like stuff) woodruff, it tastes like soap. Fresh woodruff is slightly poisonous, it contains coumarin. The syrup tastes great with milk, you can also use it to produce ice cream.
Online I found this description of the flavor. Sweet woodruff has a special flavor of vanilla, cardamom, and cinnamon that comes from the coumarin it contains.
Götterspeise - jello - basicly it is water, flavour, sugar and gelantine. It's the gelantine that takes the hours for the jello become "solid" or better: floppy. Preparation time - 1 minute, waiting time 2-5 hours depending on the temperature
Most people like it here, but if you don't know it, it might a bit strange. It's often in jelly or in drinks. It is also popular in alcoholic drinks in a whole bottle or in shots or in ice. There isn't much we make of it other than drinks and jelly. In some gardens and woods they serve as ground cover perennials. We call jelly here Götterspeise(Food of the Gods), So we put the master of the forest in the food of the gods.
The plant contains cumarin which is a hemostatis antagonist. It blocks the production of certain molecules which are needed in the complicated process of forming blood clots. Marcumar is a drug with basically the same effect
06:28 The “Berliner Weisse” Today people usually drink Berliner Weisse with a shot. This means that the beer (white beer) is mixed with raspberry or woodruff syrup and is a popular summer drink that tourists should also try when visiting the capital.07/21/2021
Waldmeister shots are the best. And Waldmeister with Wodka…..every Waldmeister, even the ‚wackellig‘ stuff 😂😂
You have seen this beer before, the east german part of the 4/4 series of germany, the girl was trying two types of Berliner Weisse, a red and a green one. She went for the red rasperry one ...
My favorite combination of ice cream flavors is Waldmeister and blueberry. They are both very sweet, very intense flavors; but also very different from each other.
waldmeister is actually realy delissious. I never celebrated st. patricks day, so I always thought you would put waldmeister syrup in to the beer, but if you don't know this herb, I might be wrong. waldmeister is actually strong enough, if u put one straw of the herb into tab water, or sparkling water, the water will get green over the time and take the flavour. btw limonade = Lemonade Btw the english translation for waldmeister is sweet woodruuf I specificly say sweet woodruf, because there are 3 additional plant species out there, who look similar to the plant, but are not the the same.
The flavorings don't have a color. But the plant they are derived from has. And I suppose before artificial flavorings, when they would extract the favor naturally from the plant, often you probably did end up with an extract that some muted or muddy or maybe even concentrated version of the plant's or fruits color in it. So the color got associated with the flavor. Nowadays they are just paired with food coloring and marketing designs to prime the expectation of the taste and complement or even highten the experience. So, of course. The flavor itself isn't green.
"Berliner Weiße" is a traditional lactic fermented draught beer of berlin and is aditionally offered as a mixed beer drink with Waldmeister or Raspberry.
8:06 the Götterspeise is the best Thing a tastet in my life
I think its very popular in the drink pulver and the jello. I usually dont eat it otherwise
Waldmeistersirup mit gekühlter Zitronenlimo, ein Kinderpartygetränk mit diversen Namen z.B. grüne Hexe 😁Danke für die Kindheitserinnerung
its not alone the taste its also the unique SMELL you cant describe it with any other thing. Waldmeister is something special
Coumarin or coumarin is a naturally occurring, aromatic phytochemical from the group of phenylpropanoids. It has a pleasant, vanilla or hay-like smell. You can find it in woodruff, in tonka beans or in the so-called bison grass, which is used to flavor a famous Polish vodka. In higher amounts, however, coumarin is harmful to health. I like the flavour. Greetings from good old Germany.
Woodruff needs to be harvested in spring before it’s flowering. In order to develop its aroma properly, it then has to wilt a little or even be dried completely, but it’s not a kitchen herb, so you can’t buy it readily dried at the grocery store. Also, sugar enhances the taste. So if you pick up fresh woodruff and put it right into your mouth, you won‘t have the typical taste of our „Waldmeister-Bowle“ or „Berliner Weiße in grün“.
Waldmeister is best known for either beer, brause, or pudding (Wackelpudding (jello) is almost ALWAYS Waldmeister in Germany per default)
You only eat the plant before it blooms in may and then it is mostly used to flavour a kind of punch (white wine and sparkling water). Limonade/lemonade.
"The heck is Limonade" Mmmh, i don't know what that could be.