In the rich assortment of beers produced by the Carlsberg Group corporation, Seth & Riley’s Garage beer drink ranks special place. It differs in taste and strength from the already familiar beer mixes. Despite the fact that “Garage” has only been released since 2014, it has already gained fans in countries Western Europe and CIS. The drink has become part of youth culture, so production volume is constantly growing.

Historical information. In the South of the United States, where the heat makes drinking strong alcohol simply dangerous, it has long been customary to add a little alcohol (in particular, beer) to lemonade or tea. Such cocktail mixtures were called “heavy drinks” - hard drinks. IN beginning of XXI century, the fashion for low-alcohol hard drinks came to Europe.

By 2014, the hard drinks market was valued at approximately $1 billion. The marketing specialists of the Carlsberg Group brewing corporation could not pass by such a tasty morsel. The production of a new beer drink, called Garage, was taken up by one of the company’s divisions – Seth & Riley’s.

At first, technologists developed 2 recipes for “Garage”: with lemon and lemon tea, and later a third was added to them - with ginger. “Garage” differs from traditional beer mix in its increased strength (4.6%). Although malt extract and hop products are added to the composition, the taste of beer is barely noticeable. In the manufacture of Garage they use natural flavors and lemon juice. True, the composition also includes ascorbic acid, but there is no characteristic “chemical” taste. At first there is a lot of foam, but it quickly falls off.

Olga Li, senior manager for innovative projects at the Carlsberg Group, said that Garage is primarily intended for young people aged about 25, cheerful, proactive, who love originality in everything. The garage is a symbol of freedom, emancipation, readiness to accept new idea: It was in the garage that many famous inventors began to work.

The phrase chosen for the advertising slogan was: “A kind of genius.” funny commercials talked about three friends who in the garage were testing either a time machine or a new aircraft. The deliberately simple, “rustic” design of the bottle and label was created by specialists from the British company Seymourpowell. Thanks to the cap with a key, the bottle is easy to open.

The first batch of Garage was produced in Finland, at the old Sinebrychoff brewery. Approximately 30% of sales still come from Finland. In Russia, Garage is produced under license by the Baltika company, in Ukraine - Carlsberg Ukraine.

In 2017, at the Ukrainian competition “Beer Festival 2017,” Seth & Riley’s Garage Hard Lemon drink was awarded the Grand Prix for the highest quality.

Garage beer drink is usually served chilled to +5-10 °C. It goes well with seafood (but in no case fish), cheese, fruit chips, and nuts.

Types of beer "Garage"

Hard Lemon – the taste of lemon is mixed with malt and hop notes;

Hard Lemon Tea – a drink with a light refreshing hint of tea;

Hard Ginger – the piquant spice of ginger in the taste is in harmony with lemon sourness.

Pampering yourself with exquisite hop assemblages, you cannot pass up beer inspired by the recipes of the best hard drinks.

We are talking about products such as Garage beer, which managed to become a worthy natural replacement for beer mixes that are boring in the post-Soviet space.

With such drinks on hand, you will learn how to get the most vivid impressions from parties, and also get pleasant impressions from individual relaxation after hard working days.

Beer Garage – special variety intoxicating, striking with its natural citrus flavor. For a long time There were only two types of this alcohol on the market, with lemon and lemon tea, but today you can find a whole range of other non-trivial tastes.

Hard drinks are based on natural flavors, lemon and other fruit and berry juices, ascorbic acid, hop products, and malt extract.

How many degrees is there in Garage beer?

Garage is often compared to beer mixes, which are popular nowadays, but this alcohol differs from them in many respects. For example, the strength of a branded hard drink is an order of magnitude higher than that of beer mix. It is 4.6%.

Color

The visual appearance of the alcohol ranges from cloudy white to dark gold and ruby ​​red. Each representative of the line has its own color.

Aroma

Aromatic indicators are based on a bright lemon flavor, which can be enriched with ginger, trails of tea leaves, fruit and berry flavors.

Taste

Gastronomic indicators emerge with delicate citrus, spicy, berry and fruit nuances with recognizable softness.

How to purchase original foam

The alcoholic drink Garage is now available in almost every kiosk and supermarket. This is a brand that is rapidly gaining popularity and could not help but attract the attention of counterfeiters.

Consequently, a negligent attitude towards the procedure for purchasing a product can play a cruel joke on you, and you will subsequently have to “enjoy” only tastes and aromas similar to the original product.

To avoid such an unpleasant situation, we recommend that you consider the following points when choosing alcohol:

• Shop.

Try to buy alcohol only from licensed liquor stores or supermarkets. Trust retail outlets, where, if necessary, the client can be provided with quality certificates for the products displayed on the shelves.

• Consistency.

Structure quality Garage distinguished by transparency and purity. The slightly cloudy color of the products should not mislead you. They should not be based on sediment or other neoplasms.

Availability foreign elements automatically indicates either the low quality of the product or the incorrect principles of its storage. In both cases, it is better not to purchase these drinks.

• Decoration.

Garage is supplied in an original slightly “pot-bellied” container with a metal lid, the opening of which does not require the use of special openers.

There must be a clear embossing on the bottle hanger. Let us also note the fact that the manufacturing companies that today are engaged in bottling hard drink.

They take responsibility for the quality of design, excluding any signs of manufacturing defects.

How to serve

The Garage beer drink, like any good light beer, when served is based on the fundamental classical canons. This product has a low foam, which means it can be drunk from both bottles and low glasses.

The temperature of the liquid at the time of serving plays an important role in the tasting process. It should be approximately 5-10 degrees.

Otherwise, when consuming a supercooled drink, you will not experience all the beauty of its gastronomic bouquet, and when tasting an overheated intoxicating one, you will be forced to endure a chaotic aroma.

What products does it combine with?

The right gastronomic accompaniment will definitely enhance your tasting. Like many representatives of Austrian beer, Garage drinks go well with cheese, fruit chips, nuts and seafood.

It should be noted that it is better to exclude fish from the diet, as it can unbalance the taste characteristics of the original intoxicating drink.

Other uses

Modern consumers pay special attention the variety of tastes and aromas that can be enjoyed when tasting this or that branded alcohol.

Since Garage beer is inherently already a kind of cocktail, it should not be mixed with other ingredients. Otherwise, there is a high probability of spoiling the bouquet of tastes and aromas created by professionals.

Still, if you are inclined to experiment, you can try this drink in popular beer cocktails, which include Beer Dragon, Three Comrades, Bishop, Hoof Kick and Cranes.

Beer flavors Garage

Currently, the Garage brand is represented on the market with five original products that can charm the consumer with their memorable flavors and aromas. These products include:

• Seth & Riley's Garage Hard Lemon. An alcohol with an elegant hazy nature and a stylish aroma, in which malt and hop notes are heard mixed with lemon syrup. The taste is equal, velvety without bitterness.
• Seth & Riley's Garage Hard Lemon Tea. Alcohol of a delicate amber color with a refreshing lemon aroma. The taste is a mixture of lemon, hops and black tea.
• Seth & Riley's Garage Hard Ginger. The youngest drink in the line, with a soft golden color and delicate citrus aroma. In addition to the hop and lemon flavor, the taste pleases with a spicy note of ginger.
• Seth & Riley's Garage Granny's Anti-Compote. Alcohol gentle lilac color with a refreshing fruity aroma and an attractive sour taste of “almost homemade” compote.
• Seth & Riley's GARAGE Hard Lingonberry. A rich red drink with a refreshing fruit and berry aroma. The dominant position in the taste is given to the undertones of lingonberry.

Historical background

Garage is a relatively young drink that appeared on the international scene only in 2014, but its admirers are already consumers from all over the world.

This intoxicating drink was first bottled at the Sinebrychoff brewery, which is one of the oldest enterprises in Finland. The history of the product is associated with the South of the United States, where the heat makes drinking strong alcohol literally dangerous.

It was here that strong drinks were first added to lemonade and tea. Subsequently, the resulting assemblages acquired the name “hard drinks”. Today in Ukraine, under the original license, Garage is produced by the Carlsberg Group, while in Russia the products are bottled by Baltika.

Did you know? Today, more than 30% of Garage's total sales come from the drink's homeland, Finland.

Taste and aroma that will be remembered for a long time

Garage is a modest collection of light spirits that you are guaranteed to want to try again. The non-trivial mild taste and excellent aromatic component allowed the products of the famous trademark become one of the most sought after on the market.

Moreover, when studying different types of beer, you will not find analogues to these drinks. All of them are prepared according to the original recipe.

Visit your nearest supermarket today to pick up a couple of bottles of refreshing alcohol.

Garage is a new line of hard drinks with refreshing flavors inspired by classic American recipes. Garage beer is a low-alcohol drink that tastes good. Despite presence of 4.6% alcohol it drinks easily. The drink gained popularity in a short time and was loved not only by ladies, but also by the male half of the population.

The average price is from 45 rubles and above. In some online stores you can purchase it at a big discount. The main consumers of the Garage are the young generation, who are always in search of something new and mysterious.

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Garage should not be classified as a subcategory of fruit beers. It differs from beer and belongs to the category of hard drink, that is, quite strong drinks with a degree. Garage is brewed without using classical beer brewing methods, but contains malt. It is this that gives the drink an interesting shade and therefore resembles beer. Hops added to the drink gives it strength.

Composition and strength of the drink

The strength of the drink is 4.6% alcohol, but despite this amount, it is easy to drink and leaves behind a fruity, pleasant aftertaste.

The beer contains only natural ingredients, namely:

• filtered water;
• hop;
• malt;
• sugar;
• ascorbic and citric acids;
• flavorings.

If you want to relax after working day or be in in a great mood at a party, then the Garage drink is exactly what you need.

The manufacturer took care of the consumer’s taste preferences and created several variations of the garage beer drink. The tastes of the Garage, although they have common features, but also different from each other. Each Garage representative is unique with his own exquisite taste.

Hard Lemon

The surprisingly delicate taste of lemon can refresh you in hot weather and give you strength. This representative has a slight tartness, like beer, but this does not spoil the drink at all. Garage lemon should be consumed chilled, you can add a little ice.

Hard Lemon Tea

It tastes like iced lemon tea. The composition is slightly different, as burnt sugar is added, which is why the drink has an original color. Otherwise, the composition is the same as that of lemon Garage. This is an ideal alcoholic drink for discos and parties, outings and for friendly groups.

Hard Ginger

A new product among representatives of this drink is the new Hard Ginger garage. It has a standard strength for this line of alcohol. The drink is accompanied by notes of spice and a tart bitterness of ginger, but this does not spoil the exquisite taste of the beer. Hard Ginger copes well with thirst.

The manufacturer, having studied the results of a study of consumer taste preferences, developed a new, unique drink containing a small amount of alcohol. There are no analogues to this low-alcohol drink, exquisite in taste.

The drink has a rich ruby ​​color due to the addition of natural lingonberry juice. The taste of the drink is berry and refreshing, with a trail of lingonberry and cranberry aroma. It is for these qualities that red Garage with lingonberries attracted consumers.

What to drink Garage with

Garage is a low-alcohol drink and is best consumed chilled to fully experience the amazing taste of beer.

The drink goes well with a fruit cocktail, crackers, nuts, and chips. No matter how surprising it may sound, beer is delicious served with chicken and squid. Sausages, dark meat, dried fish are not suitable for a beer drink at all.

Using Garage beer you can create amazingly tasting low-alcohol cocktails that you can surprise your guests with.

Autumn tango

It's absolutely simple to prepare. Even an inexperienced bartender can handle the recipe.

To prepare the drink you will need:

• Garage – 250 ml;
• 50 ml – gin;
• lemon.

Important! Used in preparing cocktails alcoholic drinks cooled to the same temperature.

You need to take a 0.33 ml glass, pour Garage drink into it first, and then gin. You can squeeze the lemon, or simply decorate with slices.

Mexico

Everyone will love this incredible tasting cooling cocktail. You can use your imagination in the recipe and add any type of Garage beer drink.

Ingredients:

• 50 ml Seth & Riley's Garage;
• dark rum - no more than 60 ml;
• a couple of drops of Angostura;
• 10-15 ml sugar syrup;
• 3-4 pcs. dried apricots and prunes (wash well before use).

To prepare this you will need a rocks glass, which is filled to the top with ice cubes. Dried apricots and prunes are pressed with a muddler in a special mixing glass, add rum and everything is mixed. We also send Angostura, syrup and ice cubes there, mix thoroughly. The prepared drink is carefully poured into a rocks glass and Garage beer is added.

Gray cardinal

This cocktail variation is ideal for hot summers when you want to quench your thirst. The drink turns out to be slightly alcoholic, since only a third is taken up by Hard Ginger.

For the cocktail you will need:

• 90 ml each of Garage ginger beer and cranberry juice;
• 30 ml. lemon juice;
• 45 ml orange juice or nectar.

To prepare, we will need a shaker into which ice and juice are added. Shake everything thoroughly and pour into a glass. We pour beer there too.

Important! To avoid large pieces of ice, you must use a trainer.

In just a couple of years, Garage has gained a huge vocation among young people who are not afraid to try drinks. Also, the drink was loved not only by women, but also by men.

Did you drink it? Did you like it? Share your impressions in the comments.

For the first time I decided to write a review of an alcoholic product. In general, I have quite a lot of reviews in the food category, about 80. And now my first review on beer will be dedicated to GARAGE HARD GINGER DRINK. I have already drunk only cranberry beers from this line, and this time I decided to try ginger and lemon. In general, I don’t really like beer; for me, it’s better to buy wine. But sometimes you just want a “women’s beer” that doesn’t necessarily have a flavor; I also like just dark beer.

I bought it at the Auchan store. But it is sold in many online stores.

The price is 65 rubles, but again it depends on the place where you will buy it.

The beer is sold in a standard bottle, but has beautiful design. The sticker with the name is quite interesting and colorful. It seems to me that the emphasis is still placed on the female audience.

On back side There is a sticker with information about the product.

Seth&Riley’s GARAGE Hard Ginger drink is a natural refreshing drink with ginger flavor, about amazing properties whose ability to quench thirst has been known since ancient times. The spicy, slightly tart taste of natural ginger is ideally refreshing even in the hottest weather.

What do you need in the heat? Refresh yourself of course!

I can't say I'm a fan of ginger beer. I tried it a couple of times and liked it. And then, when buying it, somehow even I was wondering whether to take it or not.

It's nice that the manufacturer thought about us and made a lid that can be opened without special means. And at the same time, it can be closed if, for example, you poured beer into a glass, and some of it still remains in the bottle. And the mechanism is also convenient for women - don’t be afraid to break your nails on the lid when trying to open it, everything will remain in place!

In general, the design of the lid is beautiful and the functionality is excellent.

What does ginger beer taste like?

It's spicy and sweet. When my husband tried it, he summed it up as very sweet. But I didn’t think so. Of all the things I've tried from GARAGE, this is, in my opinion, the least sweet. And it’s definitely not cloying. A little bitter, but that's why it's ginger. In general, I am pleased with the taste and drank it with pleasure. Just be sure to drink it chilled, because it is impossible to drink it warm....

The beer produces a slight foam. Drinks easily and unnoticeably. Has a small degree. That is, you won’t be able to get drunk with it)))

It seems to me that many will think that this is some kind of self-indulgence. But sometimes you just want something so light and unobtrusive, refreshing and tasty. Still, I think that men will not really appreciate it... But the fair half of humanity will appreciate the taste and lightness.

The Seth & Riley’s Garage drink appeared on the Russian market in 2014 and many, both then and today, call it beer. Actually it's Hard Drink (hard drink), created at Baltic breweries taking into account global drinking trends.

This intoxicating drink came from South America, where they have long learned to create light, intoxicating and at the same time refreshing drinks from fruits. The first such light alcohol was lemon drink, made from natural products.

There are varieties of lemon tea drink and lemon juice. Hard drinks have conquered Canada, Denmark, and the Baltic countries, where they are in great demand today.

They are drunk in pleasant companies and alone, they are served in bars and pubs. "Baltika" as a front line innovative company, could not stand aside from this trend, which is growing into a world tradition. This is how Garage came into being, produced under license from the Carlsberg Group.(see: others).

Many who have tried the drink note the “nostalgic” notes of the 90s, when the shelves were filled with all kinds of gin and tonics and similar low-alcohol drinks. With a significant difference – in Seth & Riley’s Garage you don’t feel the “chemical” note inherent in the low-alcohol drinks of the past. It is truly fresh and not cloying, which instantly made it truly popular.

“Garage” is easy to drink, has a pleasant taste, reminiscent of iced tea with lemon, but the degree is felt, after all, it contains 4.6% alcohol. Although many consider it a “lady’s” drink, cheerful, but not intoxicating, helping to maintain relaxed communication.

The container is very suitable - glass bottle volume 0.44 l. As they say, neither more nor less, but just right. Although one bottle is not enough - you always want more, because the hops from a hard drink quickly disappear, leaving a pleasant aftertaste with a citrus note.

Types of beer "Garage"

Although they seem to have decided on the classification of Seth & Riley’s Garage, classifying it as a Hard Drink, in the Russian version it’s still a bit of a beer, because hops and malt are used in its production, notes of which are present in the smell and taste.

So we won’t completely reject the name “beer” for it either. Having poured the drink into a glass, you will see a head of foam that lasts for quite a long time, which also classifies it as foamy. Today there are several types of this drink on sale, let’s get to know them in more detail.

Hard Lemon

S&R Garage Hard Lemon is an excellent representative of the Hard Drink “breed”. Capable of quickly refreshing in the summer heat, despite the 4.6% strength. Has a characteristic tart note of beer and pleasant lemon taste. It is advisable to drink it chilled, or with ice, as is customary in South America.

The drink contains:

• barley;
• glucose-fructose syrup;
• hop.

The manufacturer does not hide the fact that the composition also contains not entirely natural ingredients: citric and ascorbic acids, which act as an acidity regulator; Citrus flavoring, acacia extract.

Hard Lemon Tea

This drink has the same strength - 4.6%, but its taste is slightly different, more reminiscent of lemon tea. A different flavoring is used - “Lemon tea”, as well as burnt sugar to give the desired color, otherwise the composition of the ingredients is identical to “Lemon Garage”.

Of course, you won’t find freshly brewed tea in it, but you won’t feel the “artificial” taste either.

Hard Ginger

In 2017 before summer season holidays, a new “Garage” appeared - Hard Ginger. Fresh, with a “standard” beer strength of 4.6%, with hints of spice and ginger tart bitterness, it perfectly quenches thirst and gives vigor.

The composition contains almost everything the same, with the exception of another flavoring, which is called “Ginger type”. Reviews of this beer note a pleasant taste, but more towards lemon than ginger. Although the aftertaste is ginger.

Cocktails based on the Garage drink

Seth & Riley's Garage in pure form best consumed from a glass called jar(a mug with a handle on which you can screw a lid and insert a straw). But a straw for a Hard Drink is not necessary, unless that’s how you like to drink it.

Gourmets suggest cooling the drink to 5–10°C, no more, and do not add ice. This way the taste is revealed better.

Sliced ​​fruits (especially tropical ones), nuts, and fruit chips are suitable for snacks. Many people note that Seth & Riley’s Garage with pizza is just a bomb. Chicken is also suitable, and squid is a good snack.

But under no circumstances should it be dried fish; it is completely incompatible with the taste of hard drink. Sausages and dark meat are not suitable.

In fact, “Garage” is already a mix of two drinks, but you can create successful cocktails based on it.

0autumn blues

For the cocktail you will need:

• beer glass with a capacity of 0.33 ml;
• Seth & Riley's Garage – 250 ml;
• gin – 50 ml;
• lemon - slice.

Alcohol must be cooled to the same temperature. First we pour Garage, then gin. Decorate the glass with a slice of lemon. If desired, you can squeeze this lemon into a drink. No ice is added.

Depending on which “Garage” you take, the taste will be slightly different, but this simple, but tasty, at the same time refreshing and intoxicating cocktail delights those who drink it, so it would be a sin not to try it.

The way forward

This is a more complex cocktail in composition and preparation method, but it is guaranteed to have an unsurpassed taste. A glass is suitable for serving rocks(old fashion) - narrow at the bottom, widening at the top.

• 45 ml Seth & Riley's Garage;
• 60 ml rum (dark is preferable);
• a couple of drops of Angostura (concentrated Venezuelan) bitters;
• 15 ml sugar syrup;
• 4 dried apricots;
• 3 prunes.

Fill the rocks glass almost to the top with ice. Place prunes and dried apricots in a mixing glass and crush them with a muddler. Pour in the rum, stir, let it brew for a minute. Add angostour, syrup and some ice and stir. Pour the drink into a rocks glass with ice using a strainer. Add hard drink. This cocktail is usually decorated with dried apricots and prunes, placed on one skewer.

Cardinal

Many people call this cocktail non-alcoholic, since it contains 2/3 juices, and only a third is ginger beer. In our case it will be Hard Ginger.

For this cocktail we'll take:

• 90 ml “Garage” – Hard Ginger;
• 90 ml cranberry juice;
• 30 ml lemon juice;
• 45 ml orange juice (you can use nectar if you like it sweeter).

Pour the juices into a shaker, add ice, close and shake well. Pour into a glass through a strainer and add ginger hard drink.

Reference. A strainer is a bartender’s tool through which large pieces (of ice, fruit, etc.) are strained.

This low-alcohol cocktail is served in glasses Collins. This is a cylinder-shaped glass, perhaps slightly wider at the top than at the bottom.

Try your favorite drink in a new way, experiment with flavors. The same cocktails to which beer is added can be modified by adding “Garage”.

To summarize, we would like to add that it is not so important what to call Seth & Riley’s Garage correctly – beer or hard drink. The main thing is that many people have already liked the drink; it is actively selling out, especially in the heat. It is refreshing, invigorating, and especially pleasant to drink on vacation.

So we will diversify our taste preferences and will definitely try both “Garage” in different flavors and cocktails based on it. Are you already familiar with the taste of hard drink? Share your impressions, leave comments that will be useful to other readers. Like it and suggest the article to your friends on social networks.