No. 7Pickle Beers & Beer Cocktails
Pickle Shandy
Half lager, half lemonade, a splash of brine. Porch-ready.
A Pickle Shandy is equal parts light lager and cold, still lemonade with a splash of dill pickle brine. The lemonade's sweetness rounds off the brine, so it tastes like a tart, salty lemonade with a beer finish. At roughly half the strength of a regular beer, it is built for long afternoons.
21+Updated
- Glass
- pint glass
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 2 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 6 oz light lager (ice cold)
- 6 oz lemonade (still, cold)
- 1 oz dill pickle brine (chilled)
- 1 slice lemon (for garnish)
- 1 slice dill pickle (a chip, for garnish)
- Glass
- pint glass
- Garnish
- lemon wheel and pickle chip
How to make it
- Pour the lemonade and pickle brine into a chilled pint glass.
- Top slowly with the lager.
- Garnish with a lemon wheel and a pickle chip.
Bar tips
- Pick a tart, not-too-sweet lemonade so the brine stays bright.
- Making two? One 12-oz beer, 12 oz of lemonade and 2 oz of brine fill two glasses.
Make it your own
- For a shandygaff-style twist, use ginger beer instead of lemonade.
Bar lore
Shandy is short for shandygaff, an English name for beer mixed with ginger beer that dates to at least 1853. In Britain today a shandy usually means beer and lemonade, the fizzy kind.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-shandy
