Inventions (Mostly Shandy/Snakebite variants) Thread

Throughout my life I have often found myself without the correct tool or with a problem that has yet found a solution.

I was considering this over my latest creation “Hard Shandy” (shandy made with 7% beer, so it still gives you the buzz but tastes summery)

I have been struggling with tendinitis in one of my legs and found that ice packs help. I considered getting some of those ice recovery trousers, but they cost a million quid or something, so I have a plan to marry a few wine cooler sleeves together so I can make a kind of pair of “cryo-shorts” for about a tenner

Tell us about your innovations

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I thought a hard shandy was lager and smirnoff ice?

Turbo Shandy is Lager, Smirnoff Ice (and vodka if you're doing it properly)

Commercialised Hard Shandy
https://www.tullamoredew.com/en-gb/whiskey-cocktails/hard-shandy-whiskey-and-beer-cocktail-recipe-tullamore-dew/

A shandy with strong beer is just a (insert beer name) shandy.

Yeah it’s a shandy but normally a shandy dilutes the alcoholic content to below that of a normal pint, by going over 7.5% with the beer you are still in normal pint range as long as your lemonade margin is below 30% of the drink

Counterpoint to the idea of a hard shandy - just drink twice as many regular shandies.

Yep after mulling it over at my desk for the afternoon I had just come back to correct myself that it's a Turbo Shandy I was thinking of.

Sounds like how Bud Lite evolved?

The homeopath's beer choice.

Any one else read hand shandy?

There is only one shandy worth talking about, and that was shandy bass and...sorry forumites...but it was discontinued.

Also why and lemonade to a good beer? Thought lemonade was added to the cheapest lager anyway.

You are a a bunch of soft southern shandy drinkers is still an insult in some places

Can of Tennents Super and a bottle of Hooch or Two Dogs was our hard shandy bitd.

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I had one yesterday. Normally my missus drinks them but I had already poured a bourbon at home and we were collecting dinner so I had one too. I always order hers with the cheapest lager, in this case Pravha and mine was Estrella, because I've find Pravha tastes funny.

In mainland Spain a clara is cloudy lemonade (Fanta Lemon) with lager but if you order that in Mallorca you get normal lemonade with lager and they call their clara something else, I think it might have been "shandy". There's so many Germans in Mallorca you're probably better off asking for a Radler anyway.

Any one else read hand shandy?

You wouldn't want to drink one of those

Nah, Top Deck for the win.

In Portugal and Italy (I believe), a Panache is beer mixed with a lemon drink, usually lemonade

Has anyone had a Diesel? Lager and cola. Better than it sounds.

Sounds like hippy’s “cloudy” variant.

When in Clara, I say.

Cold rollers are also a recovery thing - standard bottle of water frozen solid, then roll the problematic area like you would with a foam roller.

We used to have Dr Pepper's, half a coke, half ale and a shot of amaretto.

A Diesel for me is Lager, Cider and Blackcurrant but I have tried the German Diesel which I wasn't a fan of. I think they made it with a wheat beer and cola though.

On the topic of the thread, me and my mates did invent the Bio-Diesel at university when the bar had ran out of blackcurrant so we swapped it to be Lager, Cider and Lime instead.

I do enjoy both lager shandy and bitter shandy and I'm also partial to a lager and lime on a warm day.

snakebite and black ^

Also known as a purple nasty at Uni.

Fuck this shandy chat, this stuff is the lemonadey beer of choice.

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Classic lufguss thread derail

I have to admit that I can't remember the last time I had a lager shandy or lager top. The cloudy lemonade in my mind had bits in. Hope that they are bits of lemon therefore healthy;) so lager with bits in. Doesn't feel right. While I'm wondering what colour the lager goes with the lemony colour.

@ELbowloh wash your mouth out, with top deck. Shandy bass was the OG. It was the Stella of the playground. In the wife beater sense ;)

Top deck was the panda cola to the full on original coke of shandy bass. I will stand on this point for Eva.

Top deck is a lot older than I thought and was owned by Beecham's till mid 80s and slot more versions. Think top deck was lager based having a lime version while bass was bitter.

Good way to get kids used to alcohols taste, every tried cidona? From Eire?