Shandy - Regional Variants

Regional Variants

• Argentina: Quianti is beer mixed with orange-flavoured soda (Fanta).

• Australia:
  • Portagaff is made with a 1:2 or 1:1 mixture of lemonade and stout. Particularly popular in South Australia, it is sometimes called a Black Shandy.
  • Shandy is made with a 1:2 or 1:1 mixture of lemonade and either light or heavy beer, most commonly lagers.

• Austria: An Almradler is made with a 60/40 mix of popular Austrian Almdudler soda (a traditional Alpine herb drink that tastes a bit like a ginger ale) and lager beer. A 50/50 blend is marketed by Puntigamer in bottles and cans.

• Belgium
  • Flanders: Kivelä (Finnish > "stony place") is a mixture of German lemonade and lager. Spavola (Italian > "bubbling water") a mixture of sparkling mineral water and lager. Mazout is a mixture of cola and lager.
  • Wallonia: Diabolo ("devil") is a lager mixed with mint or grenadine.
  • Brussels: Tango is a dark beer with grenadine.

• Canada: Black Shandy is a mixture of stout beer with lemon soda, also described as a Guinness Shandy.

• Chile: Fan-schop is a mixture of draught beer with Fanta orange soda.

• Colombia: Refajo is a mixture of lager beer with red cola-style soda, such as Kola Román or Colombiana.

• France:
  • In France and Switzerland, a panaché (meaning "mixed") is beer mixed with limonade (French-style lemonade, which is lemon-flavoured soda or soda water).
  • A monaco is a panaché with grenadine added.

• Germany: See Biermischgetränke below.

• Italy: A bici, bicicletta, or ciclista (Italian for Radler) is a mixture of beer with gassosa (or gazzosa), traditional Italian lemon soda; it is also called panachè.

• Mexico: In Southern Mexico in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas, a mix of half natural lemonade and beer is called cerveza con limonada (beer with lemonade) or limonada con cerveza.

• Netherlands: A snow white (sneeuwwitje) is a mixture of beer and 7 Up.

• Peru: Quara is a mixture of barley and fruits, made by SAB Miller Brewery in Lima.

• Portugal:
  • Called indiscriminately either a panache or a Shandy, it is a drink popularized by the European tourists who brought the drink here. It is made with draft beer mixed with carbonated lemonade or a lemon-flavoured soft drink (often 7 Up or Sprite).
  • Diesel is beer with cola.
  • Tango is beer with gooseberry cordial.

• Spain:
  • Called a clara or clara con limón, it is made with sweet carbonated lemon soda (clara is clear lemonade).
  • When made with carbonated soda-water, whether it is lemon-flavored or not, it is called clara limón gaseosa (lemon soda).
  • In some other parts of Spain, a mixture of beer and sweet lemon-lime soda is called a champú (shampoo).
  • It is called a pica or pika (sting or bite) in the Basque Country.
  • It is called a lejía (chlorine bleach) in parts of Guipuscoa.
  • In Andalusia, Cruzcampo sells canned Cruzcampo Shandy widely.

• Switzerland: The drink is called either a panaché or Panasch . In the canton of Valais, the Swiss-French call it bière-lime.

• United Kingdom:
  • In the United Kingdom, shandy is beer mixed with carbonated lemonade. It may be purchased as a low-alcohol soda or it may be mixed at a bar to create a drink of 2% to 3.5% alcohol by volume.
  • Fentimans, a brewery in Hexham, markets a lemonade-based shandy made of a 70%:30% mixture of beer and carbonated lemonade rated at 0.5% ABV (1 proof). It is available in the United States through Lion Brewery, Inc.
  • In the UK, the most widely available shandy soft drink is Bass Brewery Shandy.
  • In some parts of the UK, a popular variant is the "lager top", in which a small measure of clear lemonade or lime juice is added to the lager — usually about an inch.

• United States:
  • A brass monkey - for which a Beastie Boys song is named - may refer to a cocktail composed of equal parts orange juice and beer. Another recipe is composed of a 40-oz (1.2-l) bottle of malt liquor or beer, with the top portion in the neck, roughly 25%, emptied out and replaced with orange juice, replicating the flavor of a standard shandy. Brass monkey more commonly refers to other cocktails involving orange juice and hard liquors.
  • In the midwestern USA, a "Cincinnati" is a 1:2 mixture of lemon-lime soda (i.e., Sprite or 7 Up) and beer.
  • In Texas, a lager mixed with lime juice is called a "gringo honeymoon".
  • In Iowa, a cider is mixed with a Flemish sour ale, the resulting drink is called a sweet and sour snakebite.

• West Indies: Shandies include beer mixed with ginger ale, citrus soda, or sorrel flavor.