Leinenkugel Summer Shandy (2024)

FAQs

What kind of beer is Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy? ›

Leinenkugel's® Summer Shandy® is our traditional weiss beer with refreshing natural lemonade flavor that makes it the perfect summer beer. In 2012, Summer Shandy won a Silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival® in the Fruit Wheat Beer category.

ABV: 4.2% Malts: Pale and Wheat.

On October 11, 2016, SABMiller sold its stake in MillerCoors for around US $12 billion after the company was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev, making Molson Coors the sole owner of all Miller brands, including Leinenkugel's.

Miller Coors Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy (12 oz) contains 13g total carbs, 13g net carbs, 0g fat, 1.3g protein, and 136 calories.

Colloquially known as just “Leinie's” the classic lager is modeled after founder Jacob Leinenkugel's 1867 recipe, brewed with pale malts, Leinenkugel's proprietary yeast strain and a single hop, Cluster, that lends a crisp, classic finish. The beer is only brewed at Leinenkugel's Chippewa Falls brewery.

Pints and halves

A pint of lager is not as calorie packed as you might think. With 165 a go, that's less than two chocolate digestives, A pint of lager shandy has the same calories but cut's the alcohol units from two to one. Watch out for strong ales – they rack up about twice the calories you'd find in regular lager.

While the sweetness made beer palatable to those who didn't have much of a taste for the drink, the low alcohol volume gave lightweight drinkers and ladies who lunch an appropriately delicate tipple. For bravehearts, shandy was the hangover cure to beat a night out on town.

No way! It contains about 0.1% alcohol. If you make your own it'll have more obviously. Beer usually has around 4% - 5% ish.

To answer your first question: Yes, Blue Moon, a Belgian-style wheat beer, was created by Coors and has been one of the company's products since 1995. But the beer's story is much more interesting than that. It was first brewed in 1995 in the basem*nt of Coors Field.

What is the original Leinenkugel beer? ›

Over 150 years, we're still proudly brewing our award-winning Leinenkugel's Original, a classic American Pilsner, just as we did in 1867.

The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company® now brews in three locations. Our award-winning beers are still crafted at our original 150-year-old brewery in Chippewa Falls and at our 10th Street Brewery in downtown Milwaukee.

A typical can of Jolly Shandy (330mL with 0.6% alcohol) contains 7.5 grams per 100 mL of sugar, 0 mg of sodium, 0 grams fat, and 36 kilocalories per 100mL.

What Kind of Beer Is in a Shandy? Pale ale, wheat beer, or a light lager work best when making a shandy. Dark beers or stouts are not usually used in shandies.

Today most British drinkers still see shandy as lager and lemonade (or perhaps a bitter shandy) but there's an increasing range of pre-made shandies, like some of the ones mentioned above, while there are restaurants and bars creating their own beer mixes, like these from Bundobust.

IPA is an acronym and should be pronounced as I-P-A. The three letters stand for India Pale Ale, which is the full name of the style. Each word needs an explanation. So, let's start from... the end. Ale is a synonym for top fermented beer, a type of beer that traditional British breweries have always been experts in.

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