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It is important to note that Fanta in europe is very different from fanta in the USA, so you won't get this flavor if you mix it yourself in the US
Fanta in Europe contains actual real orange juice, however the percentage vary among different countries from about 3% to 12%. Fanta in US is toxic sugary liquid
Fanta also varies between eu countries. The fanta in southern europe is sweeter, more orange and kinda better imo than the german one
I've never had the chance to try Spezi, but I have tried Fanta from different european countries and i can say that @Skyl3t0n is telling the truth. It varies radically from country to country, even within Europe.
But I have to raise the flag this time, and suggest everyone try the orange Fanta from Spain. You can even see the difference in density in the orange pulp at the bottom of the bottle.
I also liked the one from Greece quite a lot, very sweet
@@Skyl3t0n We Germans don´t like too much of ze sugar. Therefore it is less sweet.
@@fanaze I think spanish and Greek Fanta have the highest percentage of orange juice in all Europe
Also for example Italian Coke still contain real sugar, whilr in many EU countries there are some gluctose and fructose syrups
I'd say "Spezi" is one of the most popular non-alcoholic beverages in Germany. It's one of the cases where the name of a certain product from a certain company became used for a whole product range. The beverage's official name (if there is any) is "Cola-Mix", but people usually just order a "Spezi".
If I'm not wrong, the one you're testing in this vid is the original and thus namesake (and also one of the best tasting in my personal opinion). Another favorite of mine would be the "Spezi" from the Paulaner brewery in Munich, who are one of the few other companies who also call their product "Spezi" (there even was a lawsuit against them a couple of years ago).
Coca Cola have their own Spezi, it is named "Mezzo Mix" (but it is a bit too sweet for my taste) and another noteworthy brand would be "Schwipp Schwapp" which belongs to Pepsi.
Yes he definitly needs to try Schwipp Schwapp.
and aside from the stuff that's already mixed and branded, my favorite is just mixing coca cola and fanta honestly
Totally agreed, this Spezi is the best in my opinion. The Paulaner is more sweet but also very famous. This beverage is mainly sold and consumed in Bavaria and less common in the rest of Germany. But you can buy it everywhere in larger markets.
@@lxxxxxk The original is by far the best
Das mit dem "Most popular" ist aber etwas übertrieben. In meinem nordwestlichen Teil Deutschlands findest Du Spezi eher hinten in der verstaubten Ecke der Getränkemärkte und wird im Sommer hin und wieder mal als Sommergetränk im Supersonderangeot verscherbelt. Es ist also vielleicht in einigen Regionen Deutschlands sehr beliebt, aber das ist halt nicht ganz Deutschland. Man sollte generell nicht von seiner Blase auf das Gesamte schließen.
Ever since I went to Germany as a six year old camping with the family in Lindau I fell in love with Spezi. And that has been a while 😂.
Germany has a lot to offer in many ways, definitely when it comes to food and drinks. But so much more! Much love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Same story just the other way around...
For me it was Hagelslag and Chocomel 🤤 It just didn't feel like Holland without that stuff lol
Grüße aus der Bodenseeregion! ⛵
man ... i really need to visit the Netherlands someday. All I've seen was your giant airport (twice) and there was barely enough time to get to my flights to Sweden and Norway.
Greetings from Germany
Bro, I've been to Amsterdam for the first time and we went by car, also stopped by Rotterdam. I can only say nice things about you guys and your country! Oh and I'm from Hamburg
I really don't know about the food part, let's just say in 5 years I haven't discovered that Germans would have any notable food culture around where I live... drinks, certainly! I like the beers, radlers and schorles.
Man, you have such a good personality, always laughing and smiling, I love it! keep the good stuff coming ! FROM SWITZERLAND
I appreciate that. 🎉always just having fun and absolutely love learning about new things and cultures. This community we have on the channel is excellent
Ja man, der Kerl hat so einen positiven vibe...hast echt selten heutzutage
In the US vs Europe videos people like to bash US a lot but we have a LOT to learn from US as far as positive attitude is concerned... and it's not a joke, mentality matters so much...
I'm glad you like Spezi. - Coca-Cola here in Germany makes a similar product to Spezi, it's called Mezzo-Mix.-
Germany, with its 84 million inhabitants (equivalent to a quarter of the US market), is a highly competitive market.
So, next time, try Fritz-Kola or Fritz-Limo (different flavors) from Hamburg, or also from Germany, this time from Cologne: Afri-Cola and its Bluna ;-)
Coke or Pepsi is not as dominant in Germany as one might think, there are also Red Bull products from Austria, and the German discounters Aldi/Lidl/Penny/Norma also offer their Cola-Soda products.-
nice comment
Also, the Afri brand has AfriCola Mix. Their kind of Spezi.
If he likes Spezi, what he he needs to try is Vita Cola Original!! It's like Spezi with lemon instead of orange (and it's my favourite cola).
@@mickimicki i don't like any Cola/orange mix, but prefer to mix Coca Cola and Fanta Lemon myself, thus also being able to adjust the ratio from "pure cola" to "pure lemon" :-)
He dont need to try Others. Spezi is best
We have many Cola-Orange mixes here in Germany. This one is actually one of the best. Other popular products are Mezzo-Mix (produced by Coca Cola Company), Schwipp-Schwapp (from Pepsi Cola) or Paulaner Spezi.
Many people also just mix Cola and Fanta or any orange soda in a glass.
nice coment
Paulaner Spezi is now the market leader in Germany.
@@arnodobler1096 No wonder. Out of all of these, I like Paulaner Spezi the most. I'd even say I love it. Yes. Delicious.
No doubt the supermarket brands of the stuff are also popular, if only due to price. As for "what size doe they come in"... the answer would be "yes".
i would say the paulaner spezi is the best
now you have to try the GOAT of spezi "Paulaner Spezi"
This "Spezi" (from the Riegele brewery in Augsburg/Bavaria/Germany) is the original. Paulaner just copied it. So he tried exactly the right thing. PROST!
Na this is the OG one
@@Teraaria-uy4bf no in germany most advertisments says spezi is the best ... but actually most of germans who tried paulaner spezi too ... voting for pauler spezi he is right
I have a kind of Addiction to the Paulaner Spezi !
Hahaha this brings back memories... I was in Colorado as a part of a student exchange program back in 2004. We were there for a month and I remember that at McDonald's we only got empty cups that we had to fill ourselves. I did a mix of coke and fanta or whatever orange soda they had, it wasn't exactly the same as back home, but still tasted good enough.
That one American dude looked at me like I was mental and probably asked me what I was doing. Unfortunately I didn't speak english well enough at the time but he ended up trying it anyways and he looooved it. I completely forgot about that encounter.
Glad you like it.
After 20+ years in the US, the first European Sprite i had (still on the plane) already hit different: Not syrupee, less sweet and more tasting like lemon. 😊
Yeah, that applies for any of Coke's sodas, they're sweetened with real sugar here not with HFCS (high fructose corn syrup)
That sounds much better 🎉
My absolute favourite orange soda is the Danish Tuborg Squash... it tastes like actual orange juice, sweetened just a little bit, to hide the bitter oils. Fanta and Miranda are a tad too artificial for me.
But regarding Cola... Coca-Cola does it best... perhaps not the modern US variety, but European with regular sugar or the Mexican cane sugar ones are difficult to compete with... and the zero sugar ones, like Pepsi Max and Coke Zero... nothing compares.
But the Germans got a talent for mixing, whether it's a cola/orange or beer/lemonade (radler).
@@BenjaminVestergaard To be honest I find the Freeway Cola from LIDL that is sold in the Netherlands to be the best tasting, and less sweet than both coke and pepsi. And MUCH cheaper too. With normal suger, no sweeteners or HFCS.
@@BenjaminVestergaard In britain, Dark beer with 7-up or sprite is called a Shandy. Royal Club actually still sells that here in Netherlands as a drink.
Yes Spezi is very good when ice cold, especially in the hot times. My favorite is the Paulaner Spezi, it comes in the traditional German glas beer bottle.
Try Karamalz or Sünner Malz...it is a non alcoholic Maltbeer and very popular here in Germany. And it has a lot of energy. I think you will like it. The most popular is Vitamalz but i like the Sünner more... it is less sugary.
Another very popular Summer Drink in Germany is Bananenweizen. It is a cloudy Hefe Weizen with a bit of 100% banana juice. Better look up how to mix it right before you try it.
(Should be round about 1/3 banana juice and 2/3 Hefe Weizen.)
Since a couple of months, the Paulaner Spezi is sold under the name "Sunset" in the USA
These mix of Cola and orange is very common in Germany.
There are a couple of brands
fm Coke MezzoMix
Other company calls this MischMasch, SchwippSchwapp, Spezi
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Paulaner Spezi is the best of all
Paulaner Spezi is actually my favourite version of Spezi.
SchwippSchwapp is less sweet, imo
@@lynnm6413 Which is weird because Pepsi and SiSi are considered the sweeter drinks compared to coca-cola and Fanta.
Is MischMasch not technically from Fritz-kola?
Fun fact: "Spezi" (also "Spezl") means friend/buddy in the Bavarian dialect!!! 😊😄
The common drink sizes in Germany:
0.33L ~ 11.16 fluid ounce / 0.33L - 0.5L beer bottles, drink cans,
0.5L ~ 16.91 liquid ounce / 0.33L - 1.5L water bottles,
0.75L ~ 25.36 liquid ounce / Wine and sparkling wine bottles,
1L ~ 33.81 fluid ounce (or ~ 0.26 gallon) / juice, milk, 1 "Mass" beer mug
Large Sizes:
1.5L ~ 50.72 fluid ounce (or ~ 0.40 gallon) / 0.33L - 2.5L soda (pop)/cola bottles
2L ~ 67.62 fluid ounce (or ~ 0.53 gallon)
XXL size:
2.5L ~ 84.54 fluid ounce (or ~ 0.66 gallon)!!!
The Spezi-Standard is a 0,5l glass bottle. Of course Mezzo Mix (Coca Cola) and Schwipp-Schwapp (Pepsi) come in different sizes up to 1,5l.
The climate in Germany is too cold for cane sugar. We use sugar beets over here.
in any case, none of these two sugars is the cheap and more unhealthy USamerican "high fructose CORN syrup" ...
american cola using corn syrup is so disgusting xD
Another nice mix is Coke with Bitter Lemon (to make at home), thats also very refreshing. Simple classic Coke (2/3) and Schweppes or other Bitter Lemon (1/3), cooled in the fridge without much ice.
This is Spezi from the Riegele brewery in Augsburg, my hometown. I love it. There is another drink called Spezi and it tastes almost exactly the same. From the Paulaner brewery in Munich. In 1974, the Riegele brewery gave them (for 10.900 Mark) the permission to call their drink also Spezi. But the Riegele brewery has therefore released the advertising slogan “Spezi - Drink the Original”. By the way, next to the brewery is the Riegele beer garden. Very good food. I am often there. Really great. So if you're ever in Augsburg, stop by. Cheers and greetings from Augsburg. 🙋🏻♂️
late 70s/early 80s my sister and I went to holiday in Bavaria several times with our grandparents. And only in Bavaria there was this exotic, delicious drink. Spezi.
Today, everything changed, Spezi everywhere from many companies.
Naa na na, Nicht ganz richtig. Spezi war in Baden Württemberg genau so wie in Bayern von Anfang an geläufig und erhältlich. Ich selbst habe sie schon in den 80er in BW auf Volksfesten getrunken. Liegt wohl an der Tatsache das sie in Augsburg erfunden wurde, das sind so eine Bunte Mischung aus Schwaben und Bayern. Auf jeden fall gab es Spezi hier auch schon vor den 80er!
@@TQu46 Das ist möglich. Für mich war Spezi halt Bayern. Hier im Norden gab es das nicht
Spezi or Cola + Fanta is neither viewed as Cola or Fanta in Germany, but as a separate type of drink.
So you can be asked whether you want Cola, Fanta or Spezi. ^^
there was no 'Brand' Spezi as it exists nowadays back when the term Spezi originated - Spezi was born as a mix of Coca Cola mixed with Fanta. Later on one could get Spezi with Fanta/Coke substitutes as well, and the ready-made, bottled Spezi didn´t appear on the scene until the mid 90´s, iirc.
Also, Cola+Fanta does not equal Spezi. It's always Cola+Orange Juice.
...von Sinalco ist genial. ❤
@@Flamebeard0815 No, Spezi is a cola + an orange soda, not orange juice.
You can buy it... called Mezzo-Mix. Coca Cola and Fanta (or orange juice concentrate) from Coca Cola...
FUN FACT: Spezi origins in bavaria and the word Spezi is also a bavarien dialekt for a good friend or a buddy of yours...someone who brings you joy 👍
I think you are confusing something here. The bavarian dialekt word for a good friend is "Spezl". Spezi stands for "Spezialmischung".
@@cloneoffunkenstein an Scheißdreck verwechsel ich da, die einen sagen Spezl, die anderen Spezi fertig aus. Und keine SAU behauptet dass Spezi als Getränk guter Freund bedeuten soll! Mal besser lesen bevorst irgendwelche unqualifizierten Korrekturkommentare schreibst🖕
@@cloneoffunkenstein an Scheiß verwechsel ich da, man sagt Spezi oder Spezl fertig aus. Und kein Schwein behauptet dass Spezi als Getränk guter Freund bedeuten soll, oder?! Vielleicht das nächste mal besser lesen bevorst irgendwelche unqualifizierten Korrekturkommentare verfasst...
@@BUKKAKEstego Vielleicht mal an Gang runterschalten. Besser fürs Herz :).
it's neither cane sugar nor corn syrup, most sugar in germany (and the rest of europe I'd guess) comes from sugar beet roots. You can find cane sugar in super markets etc., but it's more like something "exotic" and more expensive then regular sugar.
The popular Spezi is from Paulaner and is sold in the US under Paulaner Sunset (I think even in normal grocery stores). Its the exact same drink as in germany but due to trademark under a different name.
As I recall Spezi - you got here - is the original from Brauhaus Riegele in Augsburg. But this mix is so common in Germany - even Coca Cola offers one as "Mezzo Mix".
@@ThorDyrden yes, there is one original Spezi, and the Paulaner Spezi with a slightly different recipe since they only bought the rights to the name and not the right to the recipe.
Maybe they also got the rights to the name only for germany, and thus had to rename it in the usa to avoild any conflict with the original (non-Paulaner) Spezi ?
The Pepsi owned mockup of Spezi is called Schwip-Schwap, but the best is still Riegele Spezi.
I always look for Paulaner Spezi when i'm in Germany. I've reached out to them, but for some reason they don't sell in Belgium (but why export to the US?)
The contract between Paulaner and Spezi for using the name Spezi is old but valid and seems to have no terminate date. Thats why they had a an argument between their law firms a while ago. That is ultimately why they call it Paulaner Sunset in the US. There is also Krombacher Spezi but with the R. Schwipp Schwapp is disgusting as its get.
You will find the best Spezis in some private bavarian brewerys. Leikeim for example was small but had a recent boost in its popularity and boy that is good.
Try Rivella (red) from Switzerland, it’s got a very distinct and unique taste to it
It taste good, yes and sometimes i drink it, but it has too much sugar, so try a Schorle, it`s half carbonated water and any juice. I prefer grapefruit, cause it`s not so sweet. In summer we also drink Weinschorle, half white vine, half carbonated water ,or Radler ( Alsterwasser in the north of Germany ) ,it`s half beer and half lemon soda. The spaniards prefer tinto de verano, summervine, red vine with orange soda. Prost from Hamburg
The German Cola and the Coca Cola too is natural sugar, we use for that sugarbeets for the sweetness. Greetings from Germany.
try to get some Paulaner Spezi, they sell it as Paulaner Sunset in parts of the US. It's my favourite type of Spezi. And you have to pronounce the E longer, sounds more like shpaytzee without really pronouncing the Y. The Z sound is correct. Greetings from Munich.
Yes, Paulaner Spezi tastes best. I'm drinking one right now.
@@bronkothetervueren3246 nice, I get them for free at my workplace whenever I want. 😅
The closest would be spade-see, if you substitute existing words.
Yes I've tasted many Spezis and the Paulaner brand tastes the best for me.
Prost , Leute from Europe but not from Germany !
Bis bald !
I know a bit of German not much though.
Yepp ... try Paulaner ... it's the best of all.
Yes, its so good!
Every time when there's soda fountains available I mix Coke and Fanta (in Finland)
I remember when I was younger I always got weird looks from my friends when I did that. Then in later years I saw Pepsi Schwip Schwap drink, and found out thats its actually really popular thing (in Germany) to mix these two things, coke and orange.
Spezi is its own type of drink in Germany. If you want to try the Coca Cola version, its called Mezzo Mix, but there are versions of this from all kinds of producers including beer companies as Krombacher, or Paulaner! Other noteworthy names are Schwip Schwap, Cola Mix and Mischmasch from Fritz Cola.
You can find types of Spezi everywhere here and its just the superior type of drink! My favorite is the Paulaner version. ;)
Yes SPEZI is a great drink. A 50/50 blend of Coke and Fanta.
You should compare American Fanta with German/European Fanta! Two worlds meet!
You mean compare it to the original Fanta? Yes Fanta was invented in Germany because there was a shortage of resources for cola and other stuff.
i usually stay away from the premixed things and safe a bit of money, when its more or less basically cola and fanta mixed together. and the advantage of mixing it yourself is: you determine the ratio of how much orange soda you wanna have in your cola mix.
Spezi comes from Bavaria and means friend or Buddy...❤😊
Spezi is great yes. There are also different brands selling it. You can also order it in restaurant. Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Spezi, Ginger Ale. Paulaner Spezi is my favourite of all the brands.
Spezi, the beer of my childhood 😁
Oh, as you mentioned sparkling water... We use to mix juice, most common is apple, with sparkling water and call it Schorle, Austrians say Gespritzer. Very refreshing and goes well to a dinner instead of wine or beer
Oh! Just came to my mind! One thing you should try if you like beer - slovakian 0.0% radlers! (I'm sure other countries have it too, but i'm biased) Lemon one is good, but other flavours are also nice. It's a non-alcoholic beer + juice combo that REALLY hits just right on hot summer days when you gotta drive, and unlikr other "nonalcoholic" beers that still have trace amounds of booze in them, this is actually 0.0% alcohol content. People sometimes call it "the bicycle beer" here because you can drink as much as you want and still ride a bike just fine without any issues with your ballance. I think that you would like it.
Funny thing, my grandparents use to mix cola and fanta back in the day . That was in the 80ties when i was a kid!! I never wonder why, i guess it was normal back then!? After they past away till today i never thought about it, like nobody did!! Thanks for this upload 👍🏻 i live in the Netherlands near the border of Germany... so quik drive to the shop😉
Spezi is just a mix of Cola and Orange Soda. It is a german drink, but especially popular in Bavaria where the company is from. Growing up in Munich, I'm used to ask for Spezi when i ask for a Cola/Orange Mix (since there are other mixed Sodas like that, for example Coca-Cola's MezzoMix). The brand name is synonymous with Cola/Orange Soda in Bavaria. The name itself is also a bavarian term, in our dialect it basically means "friend" ;) Very, very popular. If you go to a beergarden and don't want to drink alcohol or beer, you'll most likely drink a Spezi (or Apfelschorle, a mix of sparkling water and apple juice).
Now try "Orangina", a very popular soda from France. In my Opinion it's the best fruity soda on the planet. It comes in two flavours (classic and rouge). If possible get the glass bottle, not the plastic one. No artificial stuff in it.
Wirklich...? Kaum zu glauben... Bei denen schmeckten die Soft- Drinks immer besonders künstlich. Sogar schon in den frühen 80ern...
Spezi and Orangina are the two softdrinks i have in my home at this moment. But, though Orangina in Germany tastes good, in France its much better. I like the zesty and slightly bitter taste of the french original.
Man havnt had that in maby 35 years, but it was the best orange drink. Way better than Fanta. They also had a weird shape glass bottle.
20 years ago they would mix fanta with cola and call it Spezi,also appel juice and sparkling water it Apfelschorle.
Spezi is one of my favorite soda's i think, loved it when i was in Germany
If you can get your hands on it - try AfriCola and their Spezi-like drink, AfriCola Mix. They have a different recipe than the other fizzies and tastes quit good (best, I'd say, but that's my opinion).
Love your videos man! Your open-mindedness and fascination to learn about the everyday stuff of other countries is so refreshing and cool to see. Greetings from Austria!
I've been watching your videos for a long time and think you're a cool guy. It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity, otherwise I would invite you and your family to Germany. You would certainly have a lot of fun here. Greetings from Germany and all the best.
Spezi as a brand or soda name is relatively new. i remember in my teenage days during the 80s in Vienna we mixed Fanta with Coke and this was a Spezi (the name for this special mix already existed). I´m pretty sure the mix drink became popular in german speaking countries during the 80s.
Living in northern germany, we always knew spezi as the mix of coca cola and fanta too. ;)
Actually Spezi was trademarked in the 50s by Riegele and Paulaner got an Agreement from this brewery in 1974 and that's when "Spezi " took off.
Yeah, it's one of my favorite drinks since the 80s. 👍🏽 Ein Spezi in den Achtzigern ... ein Traum! 🤩
in spezi...real spezi, its orange juice not lemonade
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I am a Speziholic, that who I don‘t touch any Spezi.
In Europe, neither HFCS nor cane sugar is common (except in organic products, where cane sugar is often found); beet sugar is common here.
Spezi is only popular in the german speaking Countrys Germany, Austria und Switzerland. You can get it in almost every store and in restaurants.
In Austria and Germany cola is also often mixed with lemon lemonade. This is also called Spezi and taste very good too.
Special in Austria we often mix beer with orange or Lemon limonde (1:1) and this is realy very, very good and has not so much alcohol in it. We call it "Radler" (a german word fore a cyclist). This name probably came from the fact that people didn't want to drink strong alcoholic beverages during bike rides. My favorit one is beer with rasberry limonde, it taste ... wow.
Well Radler isn't all that special in Austria. It's known i think in all of Germany but under different names. And seems to be coming from Bavaria.
Radler kommt aus Oberbayern. Weil an einem sonnigen Tag sämtliche Münchner mit ihrem Fahrrädern Ausflüge machten, wurde in einem Biergarten das Bier knapp. Darauf hin hat der Wirt es mit Limo gestreckt und es wegen den ganzen Radlern einfach Radler genannt.
I drink cola and orange mix drinks everytime I'm in Germany.
In germany we use sugarbeet mainly to make sugar
The Coca Cola company is selling this drink since 1973 under the name "Mezzo Mix" in germany. As already described in the comments its Coke with Fanta. But you must know, that the recipe of Cokes and Fantas is in each country different. so maybe it will not work with your local sodas.
It selled in germany like all other Coca Cola products in cans and bottles of each size.
other brands sell it under Colamix or Spezi.
Cola and Orange mix well here in Germany. The Cola-Orange mix is a established drink here. Paulaner Spezi is the premium one as they use Fassbrause for their mix. There's Spezi as an brand, there's MezzoMix (CocaCola + Fanta) and even CapriSonne Cola Mix. I cannot remember when I tasted it the first time. Most european drinks use suger from sugar beet, it is natural.
In fact, my uncel old as Robert de Niro, used to be mix Coke with Fanta, years before this came out and he called it "cold coffee". I'm sure, that a lot of other Germans, did the mix also...
German here, my dad did that too, and he also called it Kalter Kaffee. But it didn’t/doesn’t taste exactly like Spezi / Mezzo Mix.
@@klarasee806 Right. But the idea, is the same...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Of course! 100% agreed! All of these Coke Fanta mixes have their roots in Kalter Kaffee.
Sprite is Fanta clear lemon, I'm sure you've heard that. Coca Cola renamed it Sprite to establish it in the American market.
I remember back in the 1980s being in the Englisch Garten in Munich (great city) and a man went around selling drinks shouting "Bier, Wasser, Spetzi, Cola, Mirinda...". Learned to like Spetzi back then.
In Hungary we started mixing Cola and fanta or other orange in the mid 80' :)
My favourite Cola - Orange mix is Schwipp-Schwapp light (zero or whatever) from the Pepsi company. It is still surprising for me that in Germany those Cola mixes are very popular - and the Americans that try them like them, too - and it is not a thing in the US of A.
6:15 That makes a half German 😂
A similar drink in Sweden I buy often is called Black Orange by the company M.A.C.
Not sure if it is similar to Spezi but tastes alot like if Coke and Fanta where mixed.
Edit: Company is Krönlein not MAC.
I think the company is Krönlein.
Oops on my part, you are indeed correct. I just remembered on the top of my head what the bottle says. Which is MAC Black Orange.
Ingredients:
Water, sugar, orange juice from orange juice concentrate (2.3%), lemon juice from lemon juice concentrate (0.8%), carbon dioxide, color E150d, acidifier phosphoric acid and citric acid, natural flavor, caffeine flavor, concentrated citrus extract, stabilizer locust bean gum.
Sugar is very likely from sugar beet, can´t farm sugar cane over here ;)
I'm German and Drink Paulaner Spezi. It's so good.
Nobody drink this Spezi anymore in Bavaria , only Paulaner Spezi
Spezi actually a bavarian slang word for something like pal
Nowadays you can get it all over Europe, but Bavaria considers Spezi something like our non alcoholic national beverage...
I also grew up on it, and it's the one to go for at a beergarden when you're the driver...
Whenever I'm at a place where you get an empty cup when you pay and fill it yourself from dispensers I mix Fanta and Cola 50/50 to make it myself. I was introduced to it on a trip to Germany probably in the early eighties. Also, in the eighties Fanta had a product, it seems to have been pretty local to Sweden, called Fanta Black Orange with a similar taste.
Sprite is better to mix with beer. Fanta with coke. You can mix beer with coke too, is called "Diesel" or "Krefelder". We drank it when we were in the army playing dice because we always got drunk too quickly when drinking beer.
In Germany we also have 'Mezzo Mix", that's Fanta and Coca Cola in a mix. It's from the Coca Cola Company as well, very delicious.
8:51 yess! I feel so too. A nice cold coke is alright but if its ice cold with extra cubes it's just too much
The home made version is just cola and orange lemonade mixed. Like for example coke + Fanta (European Fanta -> which is a very different drink, just google the color difference alone). That what they usually do, when you order Spezi in Restaurants. Mix Coke + Fanta roughly 50:50.
It's strange that neither Coca Cola, nor Pepsi sell their "Spezi" in the US, given the size of the market there. Because in Germany both make ready bottled Spezis (Mezzo Mix = Coca Cola, Schwipp Schwapp = Pepsi Co). Most popular brand is probably Paulaner Spezi (from the Paulaner Brewery). The one you had, marketed as the "original Spezi", I've actually never had. It seems to be more common in the South, it's not in any Supermarket or Drinks market in my Area in the North.
But you get a Spezi version from pretty much every soft drinks brand, plus quite a few Breweries. Other common ones are Fritz-Kola Mischmasch, Afri Cola Mix, Sinalco Cola Mix etc. And pretty much all store brand soft drinks have a mix variety as well.
My favorite German Lemonade btw. is Anjola. Which is probably a bit too niche to be available in a US store and even pretty uncommon in Germany. Pineapple + Lime Lemonade. A cold one of those is pretty much my favorite (non alcoholic) summer drink.
If ever you come to Germany, go to the beautiful city of Augsburg and visit the Riegele-Brewery. Existing since 1386 they invented this brand and the beer and food in the brewery are also awesome 😎
Well we usually just mix Coke with Fanta and thats called Spezi then. Restaurants do it too this way... And yes its super popular.
Theres nothing wrong with it at all, but its a little strange to us if we would buy an already mixed drink in a bottle or can where "Spezi" is written on it... Because this wasnt a thing for a long time.
Younger people from Austria or Germany are most likely already used to it enough, so i guess its normal for them, that this is a thing.
I also can totally understand if people from other continents or countries rather buy a "original" Spezi from a special market.
In reality this type of Spezi isnt more original than just mixing (something like) Fanta and Coke together yourself tho.
People from Bavaria have quite crazy mixes with Beer, what we dont even do in Austria usually. So that might be interesting too for u.
Most restaurants in Germany offer Cola, Fanta, Spezi and Sprite
and apfelschorle 😆
@@k1lluachan yes of course. I was referring to soft drinks. Apfel(saft)schorle is not a soft drink.
@@m.h.6470 Lift 😁
@@k1lluachan Lift is just Apfelschorle. It is not a soft drink, because it doesn't have extra sugar. It is - according to the ingredients list - just apple juice, water, carbonic acid (CO2) and preservatives.
Spezi is especially popular in Bavaria, where I’m from. I literally grew up on Spezi. The best one nowadays (only came out a few years ago) is the one from the famous Munich brewery Paulaner. If you can get your hands on that one, make sure to try it! Greetings from Munich
3:19 mezzo mix is the most popular drink from Coca-Cola Company i think in Germany
mezzomix was created by cocacola for the german market as a responds to Spezi which is the Origibal
In the 90s, if you wanted to drink a "Spezi" in a bar you had to order "kalter Kaffee". It was before it was bottled. The bartender mixed Cola+Fanta and then you got it.
i remember when my dad took me with him to a kneipe sometimes in the 80s i always ordered "kalter kaffee" and felt more as an adult as a kid imagine it was some special coffee while knowing it was only sinalco cola mixed with sinalco orange
I’m in Ireland, and I’ve never seen it or heard of it. It’s possible there are a few shops here that sell it, though there would be someone importing it direct from Germany and supplying whatever shops might stock it
Greetings from Austria. Back in the 90´s "Spezi" was a Mix of "Coca Cola" and "Fanta". Later on it bcame it´s own brand but as u said i think it´s with Orange Juice now. There´s also "Mezzo Mix" what´s now i guess the copy frome the Mix i drunk back then.
Keep up the great Work! Cheers. :)
Spezi was trademarked in the 50s by Riegele😄.
Mezzo Mix is in my opinion the worst of all cola mixes.
Better is the original Spezi by Riegele or Paulaner Spezi.
You found the real Spezi 👌🏻
High fructose corn syrup isn't allowed in Germany but you get this crap in Poland and Netherlands.
If you are able to get a hold on it in the future: Krombacher Fassbrause Cola+Orange. I highly recommend this! 😊When i was a little kid in the 80´s and i was with my parents at a restaurant all the lemonades (like Coke and Fanta) came from barrels and this gave them a unique taste. Krombacher (yes, the Beer-Company) recreated this taste and it is sold here in germany in 6-packs with 0,33l glasbottles. Maybe it´s just me because of happy childhood memories, but i think it really tastes different and is at least in my opinion the best so far.
Corn syrup isn't really a thing here in Germany (and I would suspect most of Europe), we use cane sugar. I've never even heard of corn syrup until my US friends complained about it being everywhere in the US. Even though I hardly drink cola at all I could immediately taste the difference when I was in the US visiting a friend. Instantly went back to soda.
Most common over here is actually Rübenzucker/Beet Sugar.
Zuckerrohr/Cane Sugar is often used in Bio/Organic-Products
I like the brand of Spezi you got there. It's like the "original" Spezi, but almost every bigger brewery in germany makes its own "Spezi". My favourite by far is the Paulaner Spezi. If you have the chance to get your hands on one of those, i highly recommend. Glad you liked it, its one of the few things i have missed when i went to the US for visits. Not as much as the bread, but close xD
fun fact: there are multiple brands of essentially the same kind of drink called Spezi in the German-speaking area. In addition to the one you had, there are also Paulaner Spezi and Krombacher Spezi in Germany and a different brand also directly called Spezi in Austria (which can't be sold in Germany and vice versa because of trademark reasons). In addition, Coca Cola makes something like this called Mezzo Mix here and if you order a Spezi in a restaurant in Austria there's a solid chance they'll just mix some cola and orange soda themselves
Cola+Orange is a common drink in Germany. We sometimes call this mixture "Kalter Kaffee" (cold coffee). As a young person I loved to mix Coca Cola with Fanta. By the way "Mezzo Mix" is popular in Germany and is an official drink of the Coca Cola company here in the German market. It tastes like they've mixed their original Coca Cola with Fanta.
Most sugar in Germany is made from sugar beets which is very similar to cane sugar. I'm not sure what is used in those sodas, but sugar beet seems a good guess. As for Cola Flavours, there is typically way less in Germany than in the US. But mixing Fanta and Coke is extremely popular. Spezi is a brand name, but it became ubiquitous for the whole Cola+Fanta mix.
Now, it is important to note that Fanta in Europe is VERY different from Fanta in the US, so you won't be able to get the same experience. Also, I'm fairly certain that Spezi also contains actual orange juice. But I don't know the ratios of course.
As for other Colas, Afri Cola used to be really popular. I think it had its heyday in the 1970s. It's USP was the high caffeine content. It also had less sugar than others. It made a comeback during the late 1990s, but then it was sold and the new owners changed the recipe, reducing the caffeine content and also increased the sugar content, making it taste like an average off-brand product. Predictably, sales fell through the floor and I rarely ever see it in stores these days. I think they reverted to the old recipe since (though I'm not sure), either way, the brand is basically done.
However, as a result of this debacle, other brands came up to fill the void. The most successful of which is Fritz-Kola. That one basically tastes how Afri Cola used to taste and it also has a high caffeine content. Fritz-Kola also sells strange and wonderful other sodas though. Personally, I really like their Apple-Cherry-Elderberry one.
Spezi has been produced in my hometown since 1965. It is the perfect thirst quencher for the summer.
As per Wikipedia:
“Spezi (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpeːtsi]) is the brand name for a soft drink owned by Brauhaus Riegele in Augsburg, Germany. Spezi is a genericized trademark and the name is used as a generic term for a mixture of cola and orange soda (orangeade) in most German-speaking countries.”
It was registered as a trademark in 1956. Spezi is the original - all others are licensed re-brews; although some might be more successful because they are marketed by bigger companies/breweries.
It's sugar beet, europe usually doesn't grow sugarcane and we also don't use corn syrup all too much especially in sodas as it's more unhealthy than just regular sugar
Pepsi have unfortunately switched over to corn syrup over here in Germany as well a couple of years ago… I literally can’t digest the stuff… after finding out about it and switching away from Pepsi, my digestion issues got better and better… and now, I actively check products for „fructose syrup“ to avoid maldigestion…
For the people in the US you can find "Paulaner Spezi" rebranded as "Paulaner sunset" in most of the states
You should try Vita Cola Original. It's a cola with a little less sugar and some lemon. Lovely, the lemon really brings out the cola flavour. Maybe it is a bit harder to get in the western states because it's originally from East Germany, but bigger supermarkets should have it.
Everyone I know falls in love with the Spezi. From young to old, no matter where they come from in the world. It has never not tasted good. For years, Spezi was actually a generic term for Coke with Fanta or Mirinda. In some parts of Germany it is also called cold coffee. Otherwise there are many competing products, but I personally only like Paulaner (beer manufacturer), MezzoMix or SchwipSchwap. And of course ice cold 😁
I'm from Munich and can give you the following information.
The original SPEZI comes from the RIEGELE brewery in Augsburg.
The large Munich brewery PAULANER acquired a license decades ago to sell a similar drink called SPEZI. There was a legal dispute that RIEGELE lost.
That's why there are two types of SPEZI.
Spezi is a popular German drink made from a mix of cola and orange soda. It was created in the 1950s by the Riegele Brewery in Augsburg, Germany, and they trademarked the name. Over time, Riegele licensed the "Spezi" name to other companies, including Paulaner Brewery, which produces its own version called "Paulaner Spezi." While other brands sell similar cola-orange mixes under generic names like "cola-mix," Paulaner sells a version in the U.S. called "Paulaner Sunset," which has a similar taste to the classic Spezi. You should try the paulaner version. It has some little differences. I would say it's more fruity. Drink it all the time.
Here in Sweden, Cola with orange taste was a fad during the 80s. It was usually called "black orange". IIRC even Coca-Cola sold their own Black Orange, which predictably tasted like Coca-cola mixed with Fanta.
Fun fact: if you do try mixing Coca-Cola with Fanta, you'll find that it has to be like 70-80 % Fanta before it starts tasting anything except Coca-Cola. 🙂
Once in an Restaurant in Poland I ordered a glass, a small Bottle Coca-Cola (in Poland Pepsi is very common) and a small Bottle of Fanta. The Waiter came back and after I mixed both in the Glass, he presumed:" You are german!" With a big smile I answered:"Damn right!" 😊👍
shpay-tsee ;) Honestly, I can´t say if it is popular in all of Europe, but there is a popular drink from Coke itself called "Mezzo-Mix". So they are riding the wave, but it´s by far not as popular as coke, fanta, sprite. And I am not sure if it isn´t only a thing in German-speaking Europe.
Paulaner (from Munich) Starts to import Spezi too.
It's Called "Paulaner Sunset".
For starters u could try Mix Coca Cola 2/3 and Fanta 1/3.
Do you know that when you drink from a bottle you can't smell what you drink? But to really enjoy the taste, you should always drink from a glass. What I find even more weird is when people drink beer from a can. This completely distorts the taste. Fun fact about Spezi which is a mixture of coke and orangeade (like Fanta): Because of the color - that you only see when you put it into a glass - it is also called "Kalter Kaffee" (cold coffee) or "Diesel". Greetings and love from Germany, Sabine
Spezi is very popular here in Germany, but we have other names for Spezi. Cola Mix, Mezzo Mix,Mischmasch or simply Cola Orange.
In the Netherlands we call Cola mixed with Fanta: Diesel!
And another fun fact, Beer with 7up is called: Snow White.
But there is actually a old brand that has it pre-mixed called: Shandy
Mezzo Mix is what coke has, it's Coke and Fanta.
Spezi is from the Riegele brewery in Augsburg, there is also an Energy drink called Spezi Energy, it's awesome.
Both, Coca Cola (Mezzo Mix) and Pepsi (Schwip Schwap) sell their versions of this in and around germany. It never took off anywhere else.
"Spezi", no matter the fabricant, is basically 98% coke and 2% concentrated orange juice.
There's another thing called "Cola-Mix" in Germany, which is literally half coke, half orange Fanta/ any other orange lemonade. Which would also be the result if people mix coke and Fanta themselves.
For me personally, the best Spezi/ Cola-Mix is "Schwip Schwap", because you taste the orange a lot more through the coke. It's really refreshing and fruity. I recommend you try it whenever you get the chance to purchase it in the US or some follower from Germany sends you some via mail!
When I am in the US at a American fast food joint where you can fill up your own cup. I fill the cup with coke and add only a little shot of Fanta. Spezi is basically a mixture of cola and Fanta. Unfortunately the American doesn’t taste like the German Fanta it is much sweeter. But when you add only a little shot of Fanta to your cola it tastes a little bit like Spezi.