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Shandy Anyone?
I am interested in brewing a Shandy for this summer and didn't know if anyone had any thoughts or experiences that I could learn from.
I am planning on doing an all grain wheat; racking to a secondary after initial week; adding fresh lemon juice and Stevia (to take the edge off the tartness) at secondary; bottling after 3 weeks.
Decent recipes are hard to find so I'm just going with it and hoping for the best.
Thoughts????
I've never made a shandy before but I didn't want your first post to go unanswered. Welcome to the forum.. there's a lot of good info here unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a whole lot about shandies.
Here's a recent discussion on here about shandies.
From what I understand about traditional shandies is that you mix a beer with a tart, carbonated lemonade or something like 7up. If you're adding lemon juice to a wheat ale it sounds like you're just planning on making a lemon wheat beer. Last year I made a simple American wheat and bottled a 6 pack with lemon and lime juices added to the bottles just for fun. It came out pretty good with just enough lemon-lime flavor and I wish I wrote down how many drops I added of each juice to each bottle so I could replicate it.
Now that you said, it does appear to be more of a lemon wheat. I think the lemonade/7-up dilutes the beer flavor too much.
Thanks for your reply and info.
Here's a lemon brew that seems to dissapear quickly in the summer.
For AG, you could just up the Pale & Wheat Malts, & modify the mash.
Recipe: Summer Blondi
Brewer: Brewski
Style: Blonde Ale
TYPE: Partial Mash
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 5.50 gal
Boil Size: 3.82 gal
Estimated OG: 1.050 SG
Estimated Color: 5.4 SRM
Estimated IBU: 17.7 IBU
Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3 lbs 4.8 oz Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 39.76 %
2 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 24.10 %
2 lbs Wheat Malt - Midwest (2.2 SRM) Grain 24.10 %
0.80 oz Cascade [7.20 %] (60 min) Hops 14.9 IBU
0.20 oz Cascade [7.20 %] (30 min) Hops 2.9 IBU
1.10 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
4.40 oz Lemon Zest (Primary 0.0 min) Misc
5.00 oz Lemon Juice (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
1 lbs Honey (1.0 SRM) Sugar 12.05 %
1 Pkgs Safeale American Ale (DCL Yeast #US-05) Yeast-Ale
Mash Schedule: Temperature Mash - 3 Step Papazian
Total Grain Weight: 4.00 lb
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Temperature Mash - 3 Step Papazian
Step Time Name Description Step Temp
30 min Step 1 Add 6.00 qt of water at 125.8 F 120.0 F
30 min Step 2 Heat to 150.0 F over 15 min 150.0 F
30 min Step 3 Heat to 158.0 F over 15 min 158.0 F
10 min Step 4 Heat to 170.0 F over 5 min 170.0 F
Notes:
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Juice of 4 lemons at 5min to end of boil, zest of lemons to primary.
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