Shandy

[Linda Sides]

Greetings to all-

Last summer while in Ireland I had a drink called a shandy. I know that
it was beer + something [lemonade?]. I don't drink enough alcohol to
know if this is also available in the US, but I'd like to have the
recipe, as well as one for a hot whiskey, if someone could provide...

'Ppreciate it,
linda

[Desmond Keane]

Shandy is half beer, half lemonade. If you like it stronget or weaker
you can change the proportions.

Hot whiskey is made with one to two measures of whiskey with a couple of
teapoonfuls of sugar (I prefer brown), 2 or 3 cloves, a slice of lemon
and about three times boiling water to the amount of whisky. Dilute more
or less to taste, as you would with cold whiskey and water.

You can often get this in a bar that doesn't know what you're talking
about by asking for a cup of hot water (i.e. a cup of coffee without the
coffee!), a shot of whiskey, some sugar (for the 'coffee') and a slice
of lemon (for your 'gin and tonic'). No cloves usually. Add them all
together, and hey presto, hot whiskey in any kind of bar!

Have fun,

Des

--
Desmond Keane
Computer Officer
King's College

[Peter Muldoon]

Linda Sides wrote:
>
> Greetings to all-
>
> Last summer while in Ireland I had a drink called a shandy. I know that
> it was beer + something [lemonade?]. I don't drink enough alcohol to
> know if this is also available in the US, but I'd like to have the
> recipe, as well as one for a hot whiskey, if someone could provide...
>

> 'Ppreciate it,
> linda

There's two versions - Beer shandy and Lager shandy.

Beer shandy is 1/2 ale (red beer, e.g. Smithwicks, Bass) and
1/2 red lemonade. (The red lemonade may be hard to come by, but
white lemonade would probably do the trick.)

Lager shandy is 1/2 lager (e.g. Harp [yuk!], Heineken, Bud [possibly!])
and 1/2 white lemonade, or 7-up if you don't have that.

Hot whiskey:

Using a glass that you've scalded already with hot water, mix
hot water, a decent measure of Whiskey and sugar to taste ( 1 or 2
spoons ). After that, if you can get cloves, chuck in a few of
them, and if you like lemon, a slice of that. You should use
Irish Whiskey.

Peter.
--
<Peter....@mb2.tu-chemnitz.de>

[Steve Glover]

Linda Sides <lin...@voyageronline.net> wrote:

>Last summer while in Ireland I had a drink called a shandy. I know that
>it was beer + something [lemonade?]. I don't drink enough alcohol to
>know if this is also available in the US, but I'd like to have the
>recipe, as well as one for a hot whiskey, if someone could provide...

Yup. Beer and lemonade. But remember, this is not your usual {lemon juice
plus sugar plus water} stuff but a carbonated beverage like a slightly
sweetened soda water.

The original shandy, or shadygaff, was made by mixing beer and ginger beer
(if it wasn't for the taste of smokers' toothpaste, you could substitute
root beer).

Anyway, the recipe involves taking any good-but-not-too-good beer and mixing
it with lemonade: I've seen all proportions from 6:1 to 1:6 (bit like a
martini -- the taste buds dry out as you get older ;-)).

As for a hot toddy, you want whiskey (again GBNTG) in the measure of one
part, four parts hot water (don't boil the whiskey) with sugar, leo juice
and spices (cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg).

Hoping this helps

Steve

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No longer steve_...@hicom.lut.ac.uk and soon not even
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[Matthew Huntbach]

Peter Muldoon (Peter....@mb2.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote:

: Linda Sides wrote:
: >
: > Greetings to all-

: >
: > Last summer while in Ireland I had a drink called a shandy. I know that

: > it was beer + something [lemonade?]. I don't drink enough alcohol to
: > know if this is also available in the US, but I'd like to have the
: > recipe, as well as one for a hot whiskey, if someone could provide...

: >
: > 'Ppreciate it,
: > linda

: There's two versions - Beer shandy and Lager shandy.

: Beer shandy is 1/2 ale (red beer, e.g. Smithwicks, Bass) and
: 1/2 red lemonade. (The red lemonade may be hard to come by, but
: white lemonade would probably do the trick.)

: Lager shandy is 1/2 lager (e.g. Harp [yuk!], Heineken, Bud [possibly!])
: and 1/2 white lemonade, or 7-up if you don't have that.

I have always been informed that "proper shandy" is made with
ginger beer (in the place of the lemonade, not in the place of the beer!).

Anyhow, shandy is reckoned a drink for girlies (of both sexes). Northern
Englishmen like to refer to us southerners as "shandy drinking poofters".

Seriously, in times gone by it was a stepping stone for youngsters to get
used to the taste of beer, but has largely been replaced now by "lager and
lime", and of course there is right now the big scare about "alcoholic
lemonades" (taste like lemonade, have the same alcohol content as a strong
beer, introduced by the big brewers in the past year or so, said by some to
be the brewers' way of winning back the E generation to alcohol).

Matthew Huntbach

[Brian & Nora Bauer]

In 1981, we had our first son. We named him Shandy Lee. We saw the
name in a baby book, and my husband kept that one in mind. The book
said it meant "little roudy one" and was an Old English name. Well, my
mother-in-law is from England (a war bride), and when she found out what
we'd named our son--she didn't like it. Evidently, she used to make a
drink for her father and grandfather called a "Shandy" and it was made of
beer and lemonade... the lemonade being like our 7-up. Still sounds
pretty unappetizing--but, then being from Montana, I like red beer (beer
and tomato juice). There is also a girl here in town named Shandi Lea.

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