Their take is a base of Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer blended post-fermentation with freshly juiced ginger, lemon juice, and lemon extract, and is available in 12-ounce bottles in their Sample Twelve packs and on draft for the summer. Brewer Jeremy Danner, radler advocate and unofficial captain of #TeamRadler, gives the rundown of the Boulevard’s new Ginger-Lemon Radler (4.05% ABV) over on their blog. Stiegl also makes a lemon radler style, but the grapefruit version has a nice extra kick.īoulevard Brewing Co. Find it in six-packs of 11.2-ounce bottles, on draft, or in four-packs of 16.9-ounce cans-perfect for the beach or the stoop. A blend of Stiegl Goldbrau lager and grapefruit soda, it drinks like sparkling grapefruit juice (alcoholic Fresca, essentially) and is hard not to reach for at any time of day. The 2.5% ABV Grapefruit Radler from Austria’s Stiegl Brewery is a good place to start. It’s a summer thirst-quencher that tastes great after a bike ride (radler literally means cyclist in German) or a run and pairs well with lighter meals. No need to sip it from a snifter or take detailed notes on aroma and body just enjoy it straight from the can or even over ice. I, for one, welcome our new sessionable overlords and declare this the summer of the shandy/radler, a fruity beer blend typically made up of equal parts pale lager and sparkling lemonade or ginger beer. Session IPAs, like Stone’s new Go To IPA (4.5% ABV) and Founders’ All Day IPA (4.7% ABV) pack a nice hop punch, but there are also tart goses, Berliner Weisses, and fruity, refreshing radlers to enjoy. $ 10.This season, they overlap nicely with the trend of session beers-lower alcohol beers, typically less than 4.5% ABV-coming out on the market. Finishes refreshing and thirst quenching. Hazy, slightly orange, fine foamy head with clean citrus, some crackery notes from the wheat malt. Light bodied, sweet malt compliments the tartness of the grapefruit. Harpoon UFO Big Squeeze Shandy: If this one doesn’t make you want to pack up and head to the beach nothing will. Harpoon Unfiltered wheat beer has just the right amount of fresh grapefruit juice added. The lemon character makes it a favorite beverage for this time of year. The result is a bit creamier in style with a slightly heavier body though ABV is 4.2%. Their interpretation of the Shandy starts off with a traditional German styled Wheat beer with added natural lemonade flavor. Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy: Leinenkugel’s put the Shandy on the map for most Americans. Perfect to grab for that backyard barbecue this weekend. Not too sweet at all and comes in at about 5% ABV. Combining that kind of prestige with another Iconic New England brand, Del’s Lemonade from Rhode Island we get a marriage made in heaven. This is a wonderfully balanced example of the style. Narragansett Del’s Shandy: Narragansett holds the title of “Highest Rated Domestic Lager” from the Beeradvocate website. Try making them yourself with a beer like Harpoon Summer Kolsch or try these domestic examples. The result can be absolutely refreshing, a bit lighter, fluffier, with a subtle bit of fizzy carbonation and faint hints of citrus. The Shandy is a drink consisting of equal parts lemon / lime soda (like Sprite) with a Pilsner Lager or a wheat beer. 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. On warm days after walking or biking one might find it more refreshing to consume a Shandy rather than a full strength brew. Beer based mixed drinks are growing more and more popular in many parts of Europe and are slowly catching on in this land.
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