Hi,
First off, this batch is for the friends. I haven't been brewing for too long, but people have really enjoyed what I've produced so far. Now that spring break and summer are coming up, I have a lot of people requesting that I make a clone of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.
I was thinking that I should probably use an American Wheat beer or another light American style beer. I will be bottling this batch so force carbonating is not an option. I also want it to be pre-mixed at bottling so that people can't mess up the proportions and blame me (also because I don't want to bring a batch of lemonade around every time they want it). These are the possible routes I can take based on my current research:
1. Fully ferment the beer, add non-sugar lemonade mix packets to final product, add priming sugar, and bottle.
2. Ferment the beer with real lemonade (containing sugar) in the carboy, add priming sugar, and bottle.
3. Fully ferment the beer, add real lemonade (containing sugar) instead of priming sugar before bottling and bottle.
I'm sure that there are probably other options, so what do you suggest? I hope this will turn out to be a success, thanks for the help!
First off, this batch is for the friends. I haven't been brewing for too long, but people have really enjoyed what I've produced so far. Now that spring break and summer are coming up, I have a lot of people requesting that I make a clone of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.
I was thinking that I should probably use an American Wheat beer or another light American style beer. I will be bottling this batch so force carbonating is not an option. I also want it to be pre-mixed at bottling so that people can't mess up the proportions and blame me (also because I don't want to bring a batch of lemonade around every time they want it). These are the possible routes I can take based on my current research:
1. Fully ferment the beer, add non-sugar lemonade mix packets to final product, add priming sugar, and bottle.
2. Ferment the beer with real lemonade (containing sugar) in the carboy, add priming sugar, and bottle.
3. Fully ferment the beer, add real lemonade (containing sugar) instead of priming sugar before bottling and bottle.
I'm sure that there are probably other options, so what do you suggest? I hope this will turn out to be a success, thanks for the help!