If this beer sparks your curiosity, scroll down, and together let’s discover what makes this drink fascinating. Plus, we’ve got 20 Best Shandy Beer Recipes just for you! For this classic version, we used a pale ale and mixed it with the traditional option of ginger beer. It makes for a balanced and more moody shandy than the summer shandy, which is lighter and more citrusy. Speaking of… Variations: summer shandy and grapefruit shandy In England, Wales and Scotland, another type of shandy is called Lager Top. The word Lager is a generic term for bottom-fermented beers. A Top Lager is a lager with a hint of lemonade on top, which reduces the hardness of the lager.

Simply combine one part beer and one part lemonade in the glass you will be serving the drink in. Both the beer and the lemonade are bubbly and may foam, so let the foam disappear before the next addition. Unfortunately, people copy so many things off the internet (without proper research or giving credit) and so misinformation floods the web. After a certain point, it’s too late to fix it, but in this case, I’m trying my best! This is why it’s important to know and trust your recipe sources. But the invention of a clever mixture of beer and lemonade would have older origins. In fact, they would be attributed to the German Franz Xaver Kugler, in 1922, One-off brews give us the chance to experiment, learn, and take time out to celebrate when the occasion arises (or when hops are available). Some of our specials to date have included: There’s lots of variation for the mixer with the beer in a shandy! You can use ginger ale or ginger beer to make the classic old school version, or lime lime soda (like Sprite) or sparkling lemonade for a summer version. To make a shandy, mix together equal parts:Got a lemonade, fruit juice, or beer at home? Then, you have the perfect ingredients for a light and refreshing shandy beer. Hailed as the awaited drink of the season, people love shandy beers for their lightness, low alcohol content, and versatility! Today, shandies pave their way to the commercial market. In 2007, a beverage company in Wisconsin, Leinenkugel, first launched its bottle version. This brand is the first to garner recognition. 19 Best Shandy Beer Recipes Redcurrant Saison 6.3% (Brewed in collaboration with Mallinsons for Salford Independent Beer Festival) October 2016

There are a few variations on the shandy that have become popularized via the Leinenkugel brand. But you can easily make them at home: and they taste so much better homemade! Here are our favorite variations: The radler is a lesser-known beverage—essentially, it's a German lemon shandy—but like shandygaff, its history is uncertain. In German, the word Radler originally means "bicyclist," and stories on the origin of the drink's name are centered on that meaning. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the drink was conceived by an innkeeper in the early 20th century who either needed to stretch his supply of beer to accommodate his customers—who were mostly cyclists (his inn was, apparently, on a popular bike route)—or desired to provide a refreshing, less-alcoholic beverage to the riders. In either case, his solution was to mix the beer with the lemon soda that he had on hand. The thirsty customers loved it, and the beverage was apparently named after the cyclists. We'll say that the drink likely has a connection to cycling, but we are skeptical about the name's origin story—and its many versions. Oolong Blond: 6.0% & Berry & Hibiscus Sour 3.5% (Brewed in Collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery and Canton Tea) November 2019 At the Kugler Alm, founded in 1895, an open-air café in Upper Bavaria in the community of Oberhaching near Munich.Prepare five slices of ginger, four beers, one sliced lemon, and one can of frozen concentrated lemonade for this drink. As the recipe name suggests, try this recipe, chill your way out, and beat the summer heat! 19. Cranberry Shandy Since radler means “cyclist” in German, other sources now assume that the radler was invented at the end of the 19th century in one of the predominantly social-democratic cycling clubs. Easy to drink and thirst-quenching, shandy beer is the ultimate summer drink. While this drink dominates the commercial market, there’s no stopping you from crafting a shandy beer at home. As I’m not a beer drinker, my biggest experience with shandy was my dad drinking them in summer. He’d love to have one after he’d been out cutting the grass for hours in the Michigan heat and humidity. Dad would come inside and pop open a lemon-lime soda (simply because that’s all we have in the US) and whatever beer he had on hand. He’d mix them together (about half and half) into a beer glass, and always said how thirst-quenching they were. I LOVE these toucan Guinness glasses! Topping up. The most common use of gaff is as the name for the spear or hook used for lifting heavy fish out of the water. Another gaff refers to loud laughter (as in "his resounding gaffs filled the room" or "he gaffed merrily")—senses found in dialectal Scottish English. There is also gaff meaning "a fair" or "a place of lower-class amusement (as at a theater or music hall)." In a 1918 collection of essays entitled, fittingly, Shandygaff, American writer Christopher Morley links the word shandygaff to the lower classes, "Shandygaff is a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters." As early as the 17th century, shandy was also being used in dialectal English as an adjective to refer to people who were wild, boisterous, or slightly crazy. Perhaps, the "place of lower-class amusement" sense of gaff and this sense of shandy were blended together. It's certainly not unreasonable to think that people drinking shandygaffs in lower-class establishments got a little wild—we just need to find evidence corroborating this etymology.