In summer, a cool, refreshing shandy can really hit the spot, but this tipple is still frowned upon by many drinkers. Can craft beer and speciality lemonades bring shandy into the modern age?
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Weve hit peak craft beer
The rise of the craft beer shop
I once asked a brewer whether he thought his beer would make a good shandy. He laughed out loud. I remain undeterred. Weve been having some genuinely summery weather, which is just when a nice, refreshing shandy comes into its own all the better to avoid the kind of tired and emotional scenes that come after a day of drinking in the heat, too. Theres also the whole craft beer movement and all those modern microbrews bursting with fruity, zesty and bitter flavours that seem ripe for this kind of thing. The time has come to modernise shandy.
What I really want from craft beer shandy is to shake off the long dark shadow of Shandy Bass, to kick into touch pseudo-shandy Radlers a name pinched from the Germans, who many claim invented shandy as a drink for cyclists (which is what radler translates as) and to stop beer cocktails hogging the limelight. Its time we had a beery summertime delight thats easily made well at home.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.
Unfiltered beer
Weve hit peak craft beer
The rise of the craft beer shop
I once asked a brewer whether he thought his beer would make a good shandy. He laughed out loud. I remain undeterred. Weve been having some genuinely summery weather, which is just when a nice, refreshing shandy comes into its own all the better to avoid the kind of tired and emotional scenes that come after a day of drinking in the heat, too. Theres also the whole craft beer movement and all those modern microbrews bursting with fruity, zesty and bitter flavours that seem ripe for this kind of thing. The time has come to modernise shandy.
What I really want from craft beer shandy is to shake off the long dark shadow of Shandy Bass, to kick into touch pseudo-shandy Radlers a name pinched from the Germans, who many claim invented shandy as a drink for cyclists (which is what radler translates as) and to stop beer cocktails hogging the limelight. Its time we had a beery summertime delight thats easily made well at home.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.