Non-alcoholic drinks
What can you drink if you don’t want to satisfy your thirst with alcohol? Of course there are the well known international brands of soft drinks. But what else can you get?
Water
This doesn’t sound exciting but it is if you know that not only can you drink tap water practically anywhere (disclaimer: always check to be sure) but that there are several mineral water producers in the region who simply fill the tap water into bottles. Whether you get a bottle from the supermarket or drink the water from the tap in your hotel is in fact the same.
Apfelsaft (engl.: Apple juice)
The most popular non-alcoholic drink. Often mixed with either plain water or with soda water.
You can get many other fruits’ juices as well.
Almdudler
That’s a very popular soft drink. It resembles (!) the US-American “mountain dew”.
Alcoholic drinks
Schnaps / Edelbrand
Booze or “spirit” is about the only alcoholic drink typical for the region. This, however, is produced to a very high standard. There are plenty of different types, made from different fruit, grain, vegetable, berries, etc.
Advice: do not buy it from souvenir shops. Most of the stuff sold in supermarkets isn’t really good either. The best place to get it is directly from small producers.
Beer and Wine
There are only very few and rather small breweries and even less than a handful of winemakers in the region.
The two beer brands from Innsbruck are “Tiroler Bier” and “Bierfabrik”.
Tyrol is not a wine region. If you want to get good wine, go to the east of Austria.