{"id":9021,"date":"2012-04-05T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:06:40","slug":"what-next-imperial-shandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-next-imperial-shandy\/","title":{"rendered":"What next, Imperial Shandy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year during the evening in which Veronika Springer was crowned Hallertau Hop Queen<\/a> a man with a tray full of one-liter glass mugs stopped at our table, perhaps noticing I had an empty glass in front of me.<\/p>\n

I went to pick up one. Roland Bitti, brewmaster at Augustiner-Brä, raised his hand to signal me to stop. He pointed to a slight difference in color between two glasses and spoke a single word.<\/p>\n

“Radler<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I took a deep breath and picked up a liter of Augustiner Edelstoff<\/em> instead. Rookie mistake (hey, it was dark, they looked much the same).<\/p>\n

I thought about this today a)<\/strong> when I saw a story on the press release that the Alchemy & Science, the collaboration between Alan Newman and Jim Koch, has created The House of Shandy<\/a> and that Curious Traveler is its first release. There will be more.<\/p>\n

The press release says, “The shandy tradition dates back to the 17th century and is typically beer mixed with a citrus-flavored soda or carbonated lemonade, ginger beer, ginger ale or cider. Today, English publicans pour a blend of traditional English ale with various lemon and lime beverages for their patrons though real lemons or limes are rarely used.”<\/p>\n

I expect that beer-mixed-with-whatever purists can explain the difference between a shandy and Radler<\/em> to me, but I’m lumping them together when considering “beer trends.” (I thought that Germany’s history with the Radler<\/em> — “cyclist” in German — was confined to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but let’s try to stay on point.) <\/p>\n

So b)<\/strong> yesterday Jon Abernathy suggested he might have to stage a \u201cShandy Shootout\u201d<\/a> between the new Shock Top Lemon Shandy<\/a> and Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy. I’ve had the Shock Top (4.2% ABV) and it certainly delivers the lemonade flavor the label delivers. <\/p>\n

And before the evening was over c)<\/strong> Jeremy Danner declared it the Year of the Radler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, this looks like a trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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