Jul

29

sweet woodruff

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img_1464smallerYeah, this is the life. This afternoon after German class and a walking tour of one of the cooler neighborhoods in Berlin, three other Burns fellows and I stopped in at a biergarten. Hey, we were talking about journalism and stuff! It was totally work!

See that bright green drink on the table? Yeah, that’s my drink. I was inspired to get it when I saw a teenager in front of me in line order one. (The drinking age is low here for beer.) It’s a local beer mixed with fruit syrup, which they keep in plastic squirt bottles.

I’d already tried the pink version, which I think is raspberry flavored. The English translation on the menu helpfully told me that the green one is “woodruff”-flavored. Not by her. Apparently it’s an herb. The drink tasted a lot like green sherbet. I think I’m going back to pink next time.

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About Helen Fields

I'm a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C. I like to knit,sing, dance, and write about science. Only one of these pays the bills. A few years ago I spent six weeks on an icebreaker in the Bering Sea and two months in Berlin on a journalism fellowship, and who knows - I could find some more adventures sometime.