summer shandy
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Here's what I'm doing (right now, actually.... the boil is half way through):
6.6 # Wheat LME
1 # Pale
0.5 # Carapils
0.5# White Wheat
1 oz Tettnang hops (60 min)
Zest of 1 lemon (at flame-out)
Safale WB-06
I'm going to let that ferment for 2 weeks, maybe 3, then add 4 0.23 ounce packs of Lemonade Kool-aid with a quart of water when I'm ready to bottle (mix lemonade to bottling bucket with priming sugar.)
I'll let you know.
Well, I kinda made it up, taking the advice and input I found on various forums.
The wheat base is a plain, run of the mill wheat beer. Nothing terribly special.
I bottled it last Thursday, and a "sample" (by which I mean about a bottle or so, as I ran out of clean empties before I ran out of beer to bottle... ended up dumping about three bottles worth) tasted pretty decent. My wife (for whom I'm brewing this, as she enjoys Leine's Summer Shandy) agreed, and declared it a success. Time will out,of course, as it needs to carbonate and age a bit.
But initial testing tells me it will work as a shandy.
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Personally, I would stick to making a good wheat beer and mixing it with whatever you want when you drink it.
Well, I tasted a bottle of this yesterday evening.
First impression is that it isn't nearly as sweet as I was hoping for... There's a real lemon taste, but it's more tart than the sweetness I get from Leine's Summer Shandy.
It has been in bottles for just about 18 days, and perhaps I just opened it sooner than necessary (decent carbonation, however, so there's that.) I'm going to let it sit and bottle-condition for a bit, and hope it improves a little.
On a positive note, my wife likes it, and she's the reason I brewed it, so that's a relief.
First impression is that it isn't nearly as sweet as I was hoping for... There's a real lemon taste, but it's more tart than the sweetness I get from Leine's Summer Shandy.
It has been in bottles for just about 18 days, and perhaps I just opened it sooner than necessary (decent carbonation, however, so there's that.) I'm going to let it sit and bottle-condition for a bit, and hope it improves a little.
On a positive note, my wife likes it, and she's the reason I brewed it, so that's a relief.
I much prefer to make my shandies in the glass- artificial lemon flavor really puts me off. A half pint of my cream ale and some fresh squeezed lemonade can't be beat. Now that's a refreshing drink- none of this kool-aid business.
You can also take a look at this thread I started.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/summer-shandy-335148/
On every one of these shandy threads someone comes in and advocates mixing beer and lemonade in real time. Yes that works great. To me that's not the point. That's not the same thing people who want to brew "a shandy" or a "leinnie's shandy clone" are looking for.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/summer-shandy-335148/
On every one of these shandy threads someone comes in and advocates mixing beer and lemonade in real time. Yes that works great. To me that's not the point. That's not the same thing people who want to brew "a shandy" or a "leinnie's shandy clone" are looking for.
