Radeberger was the favourite beer of the character Charlie Harper in the TV series Two and a Half Men due to a cooperation with the brewery.warum-charlie-sheen-bei-two-and-a-half-men-radeberger-pilsener-trinkt (german) Vladimir Putin, assigned by KGB to their office in Dresden, DDR, in the 1980s, assisting the East German Stasi and also supervising them, acquired a taste for Radeberger, which remains his preferred beer, in Russia, and when he travels to the European Union.Truscott, Peter. Putin's Progress, page 58, Pocket Books, 2004.
