Easygoing hefe variant utilizes red grapefruit sugaring for syrupy soda-like suds sweet-toothed candy lovers may love or find cloying. Either way, it’s closer to a summery shandy or radler than any wheat-based hefe. At the finish, bubblegum-candied orange and tangerine enliven sugary red and white grapefruit juiciness.
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SUSQUEHANNA SHADY SPOT SHANDY
Spritzy soda-fizzed summertime shandy infused with sugary lemonade picks up hard-candied grapefruit, orange and tangerine tartness. Dry clear yellowed suds enjoyable for lightweights with less discernible palate.
HOPPIN’ FROG CRANBERRY TURBO SHANDY CITRUS ALE
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, tart cranberry adjunct given candied apple-glazed red grape, strawberry, raspberry and blueberry subtleties in lightly syruped soda-like shandy. Spritzy lemon zesting sinks into sweet-tart berry merriment.
CAPE MAY THE PURP GRAPE SHANDY
On tap at Hoover’s Tavern, sweeter-than-tart soda-like shandy retains fizzy purple grape gum sugaring that gets cloy quick. Syrupy candy-coated Concord grape soda pop alternative.
JACK’S ABBY BLOOD ORANGE WHEAT RADLER
On tap at Plank Pizza, spritzy pinkish amber-cleared German-styled radler retains blood orange pith, rind and peel influence glazed in turn by candied Valencia orange syruping. Mild shandy-like lemonade tartness reinforces juicy blood orange stead. Wispy mimosa, orange soda, Orangina and rosé illusions waver.
CAPE MAY THE BOG CRANBERRY SHANDY
Absolute favorite sweet-tart shandy! Soda poppy cranberry-sugared lemonade licks sweeten above white breaded spine of pinkish amber summertime softie. Candied cranberry tartness gains voluptuous cherry lambic and raspberry framboise resonance. Could this be a national success a la Leinenkugel’s less interesting shandy’s?
SUSQUEHANNA ORANGE IS THE NEW ALE – BLOOD ORANGE JUICE
Tangy blood orange juicing gains candied tartness and sweet vanilla smidge, nearly recalling a less sugared Creamsickle or spritzy soda pop. Ancillary tangerine ripeness reinforces blood orange adjunct.
SUSQUEHANNA BLUEBERRY THRILL
Affable sweet-tart blueberry jam syruping maintains sugary resolve above honeyed Graham Cracker spine for fruit-ripened pinkish headed amber-hued moderation. Blueberry puree continuance gains slight red cherry wisp. A fine blueberry-candied summer shandy for fruit ale fiends as well as soda lovers.
SUSQUEHANNA RAZZ THE ROOF
Cloying raspberry shandy never hits the spot like Susquehanna’s Blueberry Thrill does. Saccharine-like raspberry sweetness gains wavered cherry-orange-peach-tangerine conflux, lemony rosé tinge and medicinal cherry whim riddled by gummy glutinous gunk.
TRAVELER JACK-O-TRAVELER PUMPKIN SHANDY
Affable autumnal “wheat ale with lemon peel” brings soda-like corn syruping to brown-sugared pumpkin pie spicing. Molasses-sweetened cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and clove adjuncts caress gingered pumpkin pie assertion and a latent lemon twist brings sufficient tartness.
LEINENKUGEL HARVEST PATCH SHANDY
Topnotch autumnal shandy features favorable cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie resonance and brown-sugared gingerbread continuance. Sugary nutmeg, allspice and clove accents dot the tart lemondrop background while the salty Seltzer tingle provides a bubbly soda-like flow for this choice pumpkin-forward soft drink.
HOPPIN’ FROG TURBO SHANDY CITRUS ALE
Superb summertime shandy beats all the cloyingly slick competition. Orange-juiced lemonade freshness sticks out above sweetened ginger ale herbage. Mild lemon pucker accompanies limey center. Hard-candied Jolly Rancher apple tartness, ruby red grapefruit tang and briskly carbolic 7-Up resilience fit perfectly with bittersweet lemon-sugared pucker.
