Similar sports such as snowboarding or ski-jumping are also widely popular and Austrian athletes such as Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Franz Klammer, Hermann Maier, Toni Sailer, Benjamin Raich, Marlies Schild & Marcel Hirscher are widely regarded as some of the greatest alpine skiers of all time.
Če prihaja iz male zasebne distilirnice, ki jih je v Avstriji okoli 20.000, se imenuje "Selbstgebrannter" ali "Hausbrand".