Beer Shandy

[Cozzyb]

Hi,

Anyone got a simple shandy recipe? Something I can make extract (light LME) really easily and just mix with lemonade,

thanks.

[Cozzyb]

I was thinking something like Barrs shandy.

[Matt12398]

Shandy is just beer and lemonade. Make beer, add lemonade. Simple.

[jimp2003]

I would say that the beer recipe will depend on if you are also going to be drinking it "straight" as well as adding to lemonade.

The subtle flavours are going to be lost once you add the lemonade so I would just go with a fairly standard bitter recipe something like I did for my recent 15min extract brews HERE but I probably would only use as much flavour and aroma hops if I was also drinking it on its own. I used DME so you would have to adjust the recipe for LME.

[seymour]

In my opinion, the best shandies are from a really neutral lager/pilsner, highly carbonated, with noble hops. Something along the lines of Stella Artois, which isn't my favorite style to drink on its own and is surprisingly difficult to brew well. A faster and easier recipe would be a basic blond/golden ale: 100% pale ale malt + noble hops + neutral ale yeast like Nottingham or Chico/US-05.

[adeybambam]

i prefer a shandy to be made from a good session bitter, 3.5% ish dark ish, think boddies, tim taylor best, tetleys etc. just make a standard bitter and take it from there

[seymour]

i prefer a shandy to be made from a good session bitter, 3.5% ish dark ish, think boddies, tim taylor best, tetleys etc. just make a standard bitter and take it from there

Never had it like that, but sure sounds good. I guess mine have always been of a more German persuasion...