Saint-Omer Shandy, 10 x 250ml

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Runaway to the Fells: 4% Spiced Damson Gose & Walk on The Mild Side: 6.0% Dark Ruby Mild (Both brewed in Collaboration with Fell Brewery) July & November 2021 Here’s a recipe featuring a fun twist for your summer favorite: the shandy beer! This one uses ginger, orange, and cranberry to feature the flavors of winter and fall and is still a light, refreshing beer!

As far as I’m concerned, springtime is Dark and Stormy season. As the rain pummels the ground here in the Pacific Northwest, a little window of blue sky nestled between two dark clouds in the neighboring distance makes me wish I were watching the rain fall from across a dark ocean, my little Caribbean fishing… 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. But yeah, personally if I want a sweeter stout, I get a pint of Mild. Mild is a type of beer that’s dying out, sadly, even though it’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s seen as an old man’s drink. It’s still very similar to a stout, and to be honest many of the real ale/microbrewery/craft beer “stouts” like the common chocolate stouts or vanilla stouts or oatmealare actually just Mild, but they call them stout because younger people don’t know what Mild even is. It’s a bad name, marketing wise, for the target audience of university students who want to party. Even though it’ll still get you drunk. But it you ever visit the UK and you see a pub that sells Mild, you’ve got to try it. At that time, Franz Xaver Kugler ran the Kugler Alm, which bears his name, and it was a café mainly frequented by cyclists. Whereas, nowadays, a shandy is considered a blend of beer with any nonalcoholic beverage, the original specifically was beer mixed with ginger beer or ginger ale. (Both ginger beer and ginger ale are believed to have originated as alcoholic brews but were then processed as soft drinks, making their names misnomers as early as mid-19th century. Typically, ginger beer has a stronger gingery flavor.) Another traditional mixer for a shandy is carbonated lemonade.Summer shandy: The summer shandy often uses lemon soda or sparkling lemonade as the mixer, which makes a refreshing, light and citursy flavor. We used wheat beer here, which enhances the light flavor. Beer foams a lot more than soda, so I generally prefer to add the beer first, let the foam deflate, then top with the sugary fizz. Lemonade will also foam, but to a much lesser extent. 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! In England, it is called shandy, or shandygaff. The same word is commonly used in Quebec and Canada. Classic panaché calls for equal parts beer and soda, but some people like their drink stronger. It is accepted that a shandy may contain up to 3 parts beer to 1 part lemonade.

Oolong Blond: 6.0% & Berry & Hibiscus Sour 3.5% (Brewed in Collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery and Canton Tea) November 2019 Panach’ is a commercial brand created in 1979 by Heineken, a Dutch brewing group, and brewed for the first time, precisely at the Brasserie de la Valentine, in Marseille. 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.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 the 19th century, shandy beer originated when a mixture of ale and champagne gained popularity. During this period, the primary ingredient in shandy beer was ginger ale. In Spain, it is called Clara. The addition of lemonade lightens the color of the beer, hence its name, clara meaning “clear” in Spanish. However, many sources say that this is just a legend. Indeed, there is evidence in the German literature that the radler measure was already known in 1912, probably even around 1900. As a result, it is said to be a legend more than a story, cleverly thought out, to attract more visitors to the Kugler Alm.

In our modern day, you might be aware that shandy beer is the infamous British pub drink you can easily make with any beer and soda you want. But to make things more fascinating, let’s dig deeper and unleash the historical rootsof shandy beer. Chris Dela Rosa of Caribbean Pot showcases a straightforward guide to crafting a refreshing shandy beer recipe for sunny days. In Russia and in the southeastern German state of Bavaria, as well as in the Austrian countryside, a mixture of 50% Weißbier and 50% lemon soda is called Russ . Grapefruit shandy: This variation uses grapefruit soda as the mixer: but you can also use grapefruit juice, soda water and simple syrup. It makes a sweet and citrusy spin.Otter Nouveau 4.7% (Brewed in collaboration with Crisp Malting to celebrate the 50th harvest of Maris Otter) Sept 2015