Hi everybody, welcome to Drinks Tube, I'm Tim and today we're talking all about shandies.
Now, everybody loves a shandy, even people who don't admit it. It's fizzy soft drink,
it's delicious beer, it's the best of both worlds. It's refreshing, it's lovely. We're
here at a beer festival in East London, where we've got access to some of the greatest beers
in the world. We're gonna' use these to make you three awesome craft shandies.
So the classic shandy, is the larger shandy. Larger, lemonade, that's it. Clean, refreshing, delicious.
So, we're starting with a larger shandy as well, you may have heard of the Lagerita, well this
is the Lagerito. We're gonna' take that classic Lagerita formula and add some fresh mint.
So we're gonna' start with that. You get the mint leaves off about three sprigs of mint,
fresh mint there. We're gonna' add to that, some explosively delicious fizzy sicilian
lemonade. We're going to muddle this with our beer hammer, get all those oils out of
that mint, there we go, add a little bit more lemonade.
And then an equal measure of Kona Longboard Island larger.
A classic american larger with a touch more hops than you might
expect from your typical shandy. The garnish, just an extra sprig of mint.
Stir it up and enjoy.
Now that is exactly what you want in a shandy.
Right, let's try that again.
Now that ticks all the boxes, it's a very classic shandy flavour, it's got a little bit of something
extra, something lifting from that mint and it's really a crowd pleaser i don't know anybody
who wouldn't like that and frankly I don't want to know anybody who wouldn't like that.
It's delicious.
So this shandy is called the Yuzu -Al Suspects, because it uses of course
the yuzu fruits which has a fabulous aroma, it's a Japanese hybrid citrus fruit and we're
gonna' start with the juice. Now you can get yuzu juice at big supermarkets these days,
It's got a lovely acidity and a fantastic aroma, we're gonna' add a good glug of that.
To that, we're gonna' add one part grapefruit soda and an equal part Lagunitas IPA.
Now the idea here is that we get a grapefruity bitterness from the hops in the beer, and
a grapefruity sweetness from the soda. When they come together it's gonna' taste like
drinking a fresh grapefruit. Now, just for something extra a few dashes of chili sauce.
It's gonna' make this really invigorating. So we'll give that a stir and finally to get
that yuzu aroma in full and really drive it home we've got some peel of the fresh yuzu
fruits and all those aromatic oils in there are gonna' be that, they're gonna' be absolutely lovely.
Oh yeah, that's exactly, that's spot on. That's so refreshing, it's bitter sweet
it's grapefruity, there's something tropical about it and that little chili kick in there,
it's mouth watering it sort of makes you want to come back for more, fantastic.
For our last shandy, we're using a beer from By the Horns, a brewery in South London. We call
it a Sour 'N Stormy. A twist on the classic rum cocktail the Dark and Stormy. We're gonna'
start with Sour to the People. This is a light, refreshing, very straight forward sour beer
from By the Horns, you can use any similar sour beer you have. We're gonna go with about
two parts of that followed by some nice fiery ginger beer, about one part of that. Don't
over do it but if you taste it, you think it needs more go ahead and add it. For a touch
of fruity sweetness, some sparkling clementine juice, just a splash. We're then going to add a slice of lime,
just to lift that fruity acidity a bit more.
Give it a swirl and enjoy.
Oh yeah, that really works, I love ginger beer and I love fiery ginger beer in particular,
but even the fiery stuff's usually a little bit too sweet for me and that tartness from
the beer really just takes the edge off. It's so refreshing, amazing.
I hope we've inspired you to make some craft shandies of your own using great craft beers and interesting ingredients.
And if you like the look of these and want to find out how to make the ultimate beer
cocktail, just click here or check the description for the Lagerita recipe. And if you love good
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Cheers.
Now that is exactly what you want in a shandy.
Right let's try that again.