plural shandies
: a drink consisting of beer mixed with a nonalcoholic drink : shandygaff
especially
: beer mixed with lemon soda
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Beer and football are synonymous, which makes the shandy, an elevated beer cocktail, a crowd pleaser for the big game.
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Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Beverage director Varun Sharma, also behind the bars at Comorin and Indian Accent, builds a program that veers from playful to serious: rum and kokum cola fizzing with housemade soda, mango gin cocktails rimmed with gunpowder spice, even a shandy dispensed from an on-table contraption.
—Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2025
Today, radlers—and their British cousin, shandies—come in a rainbow of citrusy flavors from grapefruit to orange.
—Kate Bernot, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
Imagine a grapefruit seltzer and a lemonade shandy fell in love – or in lust; no judgment! — and had a baby.
—Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
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Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Beverage director Varun Sharma, also behind the bars at Comorin and Indian Accent, builds a program that veers from playful to serious: rum and kokum cola fizzing with housemade soda, mango gin cocktails rimmed with gunpowder spice, even a shandy dispensed from an on-table contraption.
—Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2025
Today, radlers—and their British cousin, shandies—come in a rainbow of citrusy flavors from grapefruit to orange.
—Kate Bernot, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
Imagine a grapefruit seltzer and a lemonade shandy fell in love – or in lust; no judgment! — and had a baby.
—Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
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“Shandy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shandy. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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