I once asked a brewer whether he thought his beer would make a good shandy. He laughed out loud. I remain undeterred. We’ve been having some genuinely summery weather, which is just when a nice, refreshing shandy comes into its own – all the better to avoid the kind of tired and emotional scenes that come after a day of drinking in the heat, too. There’s also the whole craft beer movement and all those modern microbrews bursting with fruity, zesty and bitter flavours that seem ripe for this kind of thing. The time has come to modernise shandy.
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