Shandy
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Shandy is a term for beer flavoured with lemonade or some sort of soft drink. Lemonade-based shandys are more common in Europe and ginger ale is more commonly used in North America and the Caribbean. The proportions of the two ingredients are adjusted to taste, normally half-and-half, although shandy sold canned or bottled is typically much weaker, around 1 part beer to 10 parts lemonade. The dilution (and thus reduced alcohol content) of some packaged shandy may make it exempt from laws regarding distribution of alcoholic beverages, in some jurisdictions.
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[edit] Variations
[edit] Shandygaff
Shandygaff is lager or ale mixed or flavored with ginger beer or ginger ale. The source of the term, this drink is known to have existed in England since the 1600s.
In Germany the Ginger Bier (not to be confused with Britain's Ginger Beer) is part Pilsner lager and part Ginger Ale.
[edit] Panaché
In France, a Panaché (French > "Stylish") is beer or ale mixed or flavored with limonade (French-style lemonade), which is lemon-flavored soda or soda water.
In England, a popular variant is the "Lager Top", in which a small measure of clear lemonade is added to the lager.
[edit] Rock Shandy
In Ireland a non-alcoholic half-and-half of fizzy orange and lemon soda is quite popular and commonly referred to as a Rock Shandy. According to brand information on the website of The Cantrell & Cochran Group, which markets an orange-and-lemon drink under the brand name of "Club Rock Shandy", the origin of the name is from the Blackrock Swimming Club of Blackrock, Co. Dublin [1].
In South Africa and Namibia, a Rock Shandy is made up of 50% soda water and 50% lemonade, optionally with a few dashes of Angostura bitters for flavor.
In Southern Africa a popular variation is the Malawi Shandy which is made from 50% lemonade, 50% ginger ale, and a few dashes of Angostura™ Bitters.
In Germany the Spezial, or Spezi, is made in a non-alcoholic version with 50% German lemonade and 50% cola. It is a traditional drink that is very popular with children.
[edit] Biermischgetränke
Biermischgetränke ("beer-based mixed drinks") are popular in Germany. Often a non-alcoholic beer is used, so that the drink has no significant alcohol content and is therefore popular among children. Since a 1993 change in German tax law, Biermischgetränke are also sold pre-mixed in bottles.
A common ingredient in these drinks is German-style lemonade. German, being a precise language, has two main types referred to. Zitronenlimonade is lemon-lime soda. Brauselimonade is fizzy lemon-lime soda water.
The Radler ("cyclist") is a beverage consisting of a 50%/50% or 60%/40% mixture of lager beer and lemonade. It was invented by the Munich gastronomer Franz Xaver Kugler in September 1922 when approximately 13,000 cyclists visited his tavern. His beer started to run out, so he cleverly mixed the remaining beer with lemonade and pretended he created the Radler especially for the cyclists so that they could drive home without the risk of falling off their bicycles. Radler is not just drunk only in Bavaria but the rest of Germany as well, and is also quite common in Austria. During the summer months, Radler is very popular due to its reputation of being a thirst-quencher. [2]
In Northern Germany, a half-and-half made of pilsner beer and lemonade is known as an Alster (short for "Alsterwasser") while the rest of the country Radler and Alster exist simultaneously and differ only in the type of lemonade used. Mostly an orange-based soft drink is used for Alster and a lemon-based soft-drink for Radler although the opposite combination can be found as well. The choice of lemonade regularly causes confusion and leads a growing number of pubowners to ask for clarification from their clients.
In Berlin and eastern Germany the Potsdamer, a 50%/50% mixture of light-coloured beer and flavoured soda, is a popular drink. The soda used in a Potsdamer is flavoured with a shot of raspberry syrup, giving it a red colour. (To follow custom and control the size of the head, one should fill a 0.5 L glass halfway with the soda first, and then pour the beer.)
The Berliner Weisse mit Schuss is made from a light Weißbier mixed with a Schuss ("shot") of sweet syrup instead of soda. It comes in three standard varieties: one is colored green with a Woodruff flavoured syrup (German: Waldmeister); the second is yellow with a shot of lemon syrup; another is red, with a shot of raspberry syrup.
In southern Germany, a mix of Weißbier (wheat beer) and lemonade is called a Russ ("Russian").
The Frühstück Weisse ("Breakfast Weisse") is made with orange juice and Weizenbier and is a popular breakfast drink in the southern parts of the country. The similar Orangerei is made with Pilsner lager and a Bee Sting is made with dark beer.
The Whizz Peach, made by the private Wilhelm Rummel Brewery in Darmstadt, is made with 50% Kristallweizen (Filtered beer) and 50% peach-flavored lemonade.
[edit] Diesel Shandy
The Diesel is a mixture of lager and a cola-based beverage. The mixing of these two drinks produces a Diesel -fuel-like colouration, which explains the name of the drink. [3]
In Slovenia the preferred method is to prepare it using Cockta soda.
In Germany, lager beer mixed with cola is called a Colabier or Gespritzter. There exist several regional differences in names and variants.
- Hefeweizen mixed with cola is called a Colaweizen.
- Weißbier mixed with cola is called a Flieger ("Aviator"), Neger ("Negro"), or "Turbo".
- Pilsner or Alt-bier and cola is known as a Krefelder.
An Altbier Cola is made with Altbier, cola, and a shot of kirschlikor ("cherry liqueur").
A Greifswalder, a Shandy which is very popular in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, is a Köstritzer (a type of "dark lager") mixed with cola.
Stout or Porter Beer (e.g., Guinness) mixed with cola is called a Brummbär ("Brown Bear").
[edit] Turbo Shandy
A more potent variation known as Turbo Shandy is made from mixing lager with an alcopop (e.g., Smirnoff Ice, sometimes fortified with a shot or more of vodka).
The Cantrell & Cochran Group previously marketed a shandy drink called "Club Shandy" which contained 0.5% (1 proof) of alcohol but this has not been available since the mid-1990s.
The Berliner Weisse mit Strippe ("Weisse with a ribbon [of alcohol]") is made with a shot of alcohol.
The Heller Moritz is Hefeweizen served with a piccolo (Italian > "small bottle") of champagne and a slice of lemon.
The Bavarian Goaßmaß (Bavarian dialect for "goat stein") consists mainly of a 50%/50% (sometimes also 60%/40%) mixture of dark Weizen beer and Cola. The difference between the Goaßmaß and the Colaweizen is the cherry liquor which is being added after mixing the beer and the cola. The Goaßmaß is solely served in a 1 liter stein (the "Maß"). Accordingly to the Goaßmaß, there exists also a Goaßhalbe (litterally translated "goat half") which is the same mixture of beer, cola and cherry liquor, but served in a 0.5 liter glass.
The Bismarck, named for the favorite drink of the "Iron Chancellor", is 50% Köstritzer (a type of "dark lager") and 50% champagne and is served in a beer stein. It is similar to the Black Velvet Cocktail, which is made with Stout beer (e.g., Guinness) and either champagne or sparkling hard cider and served in a wine glass or champagne flute.
The Thuringian Kalte Ente ("Cold Duck") is 66% Pilsner and 33% German lemonade with a shot of kirschlikor ("cherry liqueur").
The Bierkut is 50% Pilsner mixed with 50% Vodka and orange juice.
The Mass und schuss is a liter of beer served with a schuss ("shot" of hard alcohol) on the side. The Laterndl is prepared by putting a shot-glass of Kirschwasser at the bottom of the Mass before pouring in the beer, making it a sort of reverse "Depthcharge".
The Dr. Pepper Shandy is a mix of lager with amaretto. The proportions of the two ingredients are adjusted to taste, generally somewhere between 3 and 5 parts beer to 1 part amaretto. The name is derived from Dr Pepper cola which tastes comparable.
In the UK, draught lager served with a lime cordial "top" became popular in the early 1970s.
[edit] Other Names for Shandy
- Mexico: The Mexican phrase for beer mixed with juices or sauces is cerveza preparada (e.g., Michelada or Chavela cocktail)
- Belgium: Mazout ("diesel fuel"), a mixture of lager and cola.
- Flanders: Kivela (Estonian > "land of stone") A mixture of German lemonade and lager. Spavola (Italian > "bubbling water") a mixture of sparkling mineral water and lager.
- Wallonia: Diabolo ("devil"), a lager mixed with mint or grenadine.
- Northern Portugal: Called either a Panache or a Shandy, it is a drink popularized by the tourists who brought the drink here. It is made with draft beer mixed with carbonated lemonade or a lemon-flavoured soft drink (often 7 Up or Sprite).
- Switzerland: Called either a Panaché [Swiss French] or Panasch [Swiss German].
- Spain (with carbonated lemonade, either lemon-flavored or not - gaseosa): Clara con Limon (Spanish > "Clear Lemonade").
- País Vasco (Basque Country): Called Lejía ("bleach").
- Chile: Fan-schop, a mixture of beer with Fanta orange soda.
- USA: Prepared, bottled shandy, is sold under the brand name of Hooch. There are a number of bottled drinks based on flavored un-hopped beer, termed a "malt beverage", e.g., Zima.
- Canada: Beer mixed with Clamato juice is known as a Calgary Red Eye.
[edit] Trivia
The term shandy drinker is British slang for an effeminate or possibly homosexual male. The origin is either from the fact that a shandy is sweeter and less alcoholic than regular beer and is therefore seen as a 'girly' or 'sissy' drink, or it is a variation on Ginger Beer ("Queer"), a form of Cockney "rhyming slang".
