Summer Shandy? Make Your Own!

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  1. Boca-X

    Boca-X Initiate (0) Jan 21, 2014 Missouri

    #1 Boca-X, Jun 9, 2014
  2. DarkDragon999

    DarkDragon999 Maven (1,331) Feb 13, 2013 Rhode Island

    Not beer.
     
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  3. Boca-X

    Boca-X Initiate (0) Jan 21, 2014 Missouri

    True...it's beer with added ingredients...a shandy. Take whiskey for instance, when you add coke to whiskey it's not whiskey any longer...it's coke and whiskey...a highball. :wink:

    When you add beer to food while cooking it doesn't lessen the beer or the food? It just changes it's profile, often times with satisfactory results.
     
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  4. Providence

    Providence Pooh-Bah (2,652) Feb 24, 2010 Rhode Island
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    At an all day concert last year I enjoyed mixing Sierra Nevada Summerfests and San Pelegrino Aranciata Rossas (blood orange soda) together. Quite tasty and I wasn't completely hammered by the end of the day.
     
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  5. melle76a

    melle76a Initiate (0) Jun 20, 2013 Massachusetts

    i actually made the exact recipe above for a mexican-themed dinner party not long ago- it was REALLY good! totally bumped up the flavor of the SOL beer i was using...
     
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  6. Boca-X

    Boca-X Initiate (0) Jan 21, 2014 Missouri

    I think many of us BAs tend to view ourselves as purists?

    It would be interesting to take a poll and ask how many of us add something to our black coffee, sugar, creme, half & half, honey...something? Then compare the results to how many people are willing to try adding something to their beer. Would they roughly be the same or skewed by our beer perception?

    For the record I have had a few shandies that I have liked...several that I did not and drink my coffee black.:wink:
     
    #6 Boca-X, Jun 9, 2014
  7. DmanGTR

    DmanGTR Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2008 New York
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    I'd drink that. Sounds fairly tasty
     
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  8. 5thOhio

    5thOhio Pooh-Bah (1,571) May 13, 2007 South Carolina
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    Just to pick the nits, an English Shandy is made with beer and a soda similar to the US Sprite. Hardly the same as the American Shandy which is made like this recipe, with lemon or lime juice. I'm thinking BAs should distinguish between the two, just like we distinguish between an American IPA and an English IPA, or a Porter and a Baltic Porter.
     
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  9. tkdchampxi

    tkdchampxi Pooh-Bah (2,473) Oct 19, 2010 New Jersey
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    Agreed. I even don't mind Leinenkugel's
    Summer Shandy when golfing. However, I had a beer called the Real Slim Shady, and it was an immediate, one sip drain pour.

    I also take my coffee black
     
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  10. checktherhyme

    checktherhyme Savant (1,036) Apr 8, 2008 Washington

    I do an American Hefe with a splash of Ginger Beer and a squeeze of fresh lemon....so freaking good.
     
    #10 checktherhyme, Jun 9, 2014
  11. Domingo

    Domingo Grand Pooh-Bah (4,252) Apr 23, 2005 Colorado
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    I like beer mixers...at least many of them. The German equivalents are:

    Radler (helles + lemon/lime soda)
    Russ'n (weiss + lemon/lime soda)
    Alster (Pils + lemon/lime soda)
    Diesel or "Colabier" (Pils + Cola...blech!)
     
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  12. Feel_the_Darkness

    Feel_the_Darkness Initiate (0) Oct 17, 2012 Virginia

    It's really great with the Limonata.

    A local brewery (Back Bay) just mixes their Steel Pier lager with some minute maid and hell, it tastes great. Simple to make, easy to drink, you can't go wrong.
     
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  13. Genuine

    Genuine Maven (1,347) May 7, 2009 Connecticut

    I don't have them often but a good shandy on a hot summer day is hard to beat.
     
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  14. RummyRedbeard

    RummyRedbeard Pundit (899) Mar 8, 2013 Colorado

    Last summer I mixed Whole Foods Organic Lemonade with Jack's Abby Private Rye and it ='d winning.
     
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  15. fAtHanD

    fAtHanD Crusader (443) Mar 7, 2007 Michigan

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  16. Kadonny

    Kadonny Pooh-Bah (2,616) Sep 5, 2007 Florida
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    I don't do Shandies.
     
    #16 Kadonny, Jun 9, 2014
  17. EveningCordial

    EveningCordial Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2014 New Jersey

    I absolutey effing hate shandy. Since u asked
     
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  18. Flibber

    Flibber Initiate (0) Jul 27, 2013 England

    You mean lemonade? Proper lemonade that is, not the American rubbish made with fruit.

    In Britain you can get shandies with a very low alcohol content that are basically viewed as soft drinks (e.g. Shandy Bass).
     
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  19. PBRmeasap1980

    PBRmeasap1980 Savant (1,197) May 19, 2014 Indiana
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    I knew some younger Brits here visting the US that would make "Turbo Shandies" by mixing Mike's Hard Lemonade with a light beer or pale ale. Pretty easy to drink a lot of these by the pool. I wouldn't waste any craft pale ales making these, but if you need to get rid of some Coors light and Malt lemonade (and you are just looking to get drunk rather than enjoy good beer), it's ok.
     
    #19 PBRmeasap1980, Jun 9, 2014
  20. jefffalcone

    jefffalcone Initiate (0) Nov 9, 2013 Massachusetts

    I drink my coffee black and I don't like fruit juice in my beer.
     
    #20 jefffalcone, Jun 9, 2014
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