Posted: 3/11/2016 11:58:40 PM EDT
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Hey all I am looking for a Shandy recipe, having a neighborhood home brew competition this July and I am striking out on a Shandy recipe or even kit that would be good.
Thanks for any and all help. |
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There is a reason why you are striking out. A shandy is typically a blend of lemonade and beer. Usually a light beer, a lager, or a wheat beer.
You could try making your own recipe, try aging the beer on sweet orange peels and lemon peels. Add sugar to the boil. Try underpitching the yeast? I'm not sure how you end up making a sweet beer- maybe using some sweetener that the yeast can't metabolize. I checked brewtoad and they had zero recipes for Shandy. Only a few places make a shandy-like beer. I think your best bet might be just making a light-bodied heffe with citrus flavors added. |
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A quick search with Beersmith yielded about a dozen recipes.
Here is one: Lemon Shandy American Wheat or Rye Beer (6 D) Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 7.37 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 6.24 gal Final Bottling Vol: 4.25 gal Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Date: 22 May 2014 Brewer: Kevin Morris Asst Brewer: Equipment: Pot and Cooler (10 Gal/37.8 L) - All Grain Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 86.4 % Taste Rating: 30.0 Taste Notes: Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 8 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 57.1 % 6 lbs White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 2 42.9 % 1.00 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 12.8 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 4 7.7 IBUs 1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 5 - 1.0 pkg Munich (Lallemand #-) [50.28 ml] Yeast 6 - Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color Est Original Gravity: 1.076 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.019 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.5 % Bitterness: 20.5 IBUs Est Color: 4.5 SRM Measured Original Gravity: 1.046 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.7 % Calories: 151.6 kcal/12oz Mash Profile Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out Sparge Water: 4.68 gal Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Total Grain Weight: 14 lbs Grain Temperature: 72.0 F Tun Temperature: 72.0 F Mash PH: 5.20 Mash Steps Name Description Step Temperature Step Time Mash In Add 20.70 qt of water at 164.5 F 150.0 F 75 min Sparge: Fly sparge with 4.68 gal water at 168.0 F Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time). Carbonation and Storage Carbonation Type: Keg Pressure/Weight: 12.54 PSI Keg/Bottling Temperature: 45.0 F Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Volumes of CO2: 2.3 Carbonation Used: Keg with 12.54 PSI Age for: 30.00 days Storage Temperature: 65.0 F Notes Created with BeerSmith |
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Agreed with the djkest above. Everything said is spot on. You can even go so far as to add lemonade in the fermenter but that would be a heavy dose of sugar, not sure how much potassium sorbate would be in the lemonade mix...probably not enough though.
Either way, you can play with recipes and do things like at lactic acid and citrus peels to give a bite and make it refreshing.. Or maybe do a berlinner weiss with a shot of the raspberry syrup in each beer...Which I find to be one of the most refreshing beers of summer |
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Quoted:
A quick search with Beersmith yielded about a dozen recipes. Here is one: Lemon Shandy American Wheat or Rye Beer (6 D) Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 7.37 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 6.24 gal Final Bottling Vol: 4.25 gal Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Date: 22 May 2014 Brewer: Kevin Morris Asst Brewer: Equipment: Pot and Cooler (10 Gal/37.8 L) - All Grain Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 86.4 % Taste Rating: 30.0 Taste Notes: Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 8 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 57.1 % 6 lbs White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 2 42.9 % 1.00 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 12.8 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 4 7.7 IBUs 1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 5 - 1.0 pkg Munich (Lallemand #-) [50.28 ml] Yeast 6 - Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color Est Original Gravity: 1.076 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.019 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.5 % Bitterness: 20.5 IBUs Est Color: 4.5 SRM Measured Original Gravity: 1.046 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.7 % Calories: 151.6 kcal/12oz Mash Profile Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out Sparge Water: 4.68 gal Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Adjust Temp for Equipment: TRUE Total Grain Weight: 14 lbs Grain Temperature: 72.0 F Tun Temperature: 72.0 F Mash PH: 5.20 Mash Steps Name Description Step Temperature Step Time Mash In Add 20.70 qt of water at 164.5 F 150.0 F 75 min Sparge: Fly sparge with 4.68 gal water at 168.0 F Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time). There's something wrong with that recipe. It's like your brewing a 7.5% wheat beer, and then presumably adding lemonade- that step is never mentioned- unless I missed it somewhere. It says something about final ABV being in the 4% range. A traditional shandy is going to be in the 3% ABV range. OP something like a cream ale might be to your liking as well. Here's a recipe I was looking at: https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/orange-cream-ale-1 |
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Here's another with lemonade:
Summer Shandy Specialty Beer (23 A) Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.52 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 5.98 gal Final Bottling Vol: 4.60 gal Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Date: 09 May 2015 Brewer: Kegging only recipe Asst Brewer: Equipment: Pot and Cooler ( 5 Gal/19 L) - All Grain Efficiency: 72.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 82.8 % Taste Rating: 30.0 Taste Notes: Add Lemonaid at bottling for kegging only. Ingredients 7 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 57.7 % 5 lbs 8.0 oz White Wheat Malt (2.4 SRM) Grain 2 42.3 % 1.00 oz Fuggle [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 3 13.3 IBUs 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 4 8.1 IBUs 1.0 pkg Munuch (Lallemand #- ) [50.28 ml] Yeast 5 - 2.00 gal Lemonaid (Bottling 0.0 mins) Water Agent 6 - Gravity, Alcohol Content and Color Est Original Gravity: 1.071 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.020 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.7 % Bitterness: 21.3 IBUs Est Color: 4.4 SRM Measured Original Gravity: 1.046 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG Actual Alcohol by Vol: 4.7 % Calories: 151.6 kcal/12oz Mash Profile Mash Name: Single Infusion, Medium Body Sparge Water: 1.99 gal Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE Total Grain Weight: 13 lbs Grain Temperature: 72.0 F Tun Temperature: 72.0 F Mash PH: 5.20 Mash In Add 16.25 qt of water at 163.7 F 152.0 F 60 min Mash Out Add 9.10 qt of water at 200.7 F 168.0 F 10 min Sparge: Fly sparge with 1.99 gal water at 168.0 F Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time). Carbonation and Storage Carbonation Type: Bottle Pressure/Weight: 3.61 oz Keg/Bottling Temperature: 70.0 F Fermentation: Ale, Two Stage Volumes of CO2: 2.3 Carbonation Used: Bottle with 3.61 oz Corn Sugar Age for: 30.00 days Storage Temperature: 65.0 F |