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Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped mango (Fresh or frozen is fine. If you use frozen, set the chunks out to defrost while you juice the limes.)
- juice of 3-4 fresh limes (If you’re using a citrus juicer, use 3 limes. If you’re juicing by hand, throw a 4th in there, since you won’t get as much juice out by hand.)
- ice
- 2 12-ounce bottles of Sculpin Habanero IPA
Preparation
Step 1
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Sculpin Habanero is an important part of this IPA shandy recipe. You can try substituting other spicy IPAs, but I can’t guarantee your results like I can with this one. Sculpin makes a great IPA in general, and I can’t vouch for other IPAs that pack heat.
Even with my taste for heat, I thought this was a sipping beer. The flavor is strong, for sure! Also – and maybe this is just because I love them? – this beer made me crave nachos like no other. I had just eaten supper when I cracked this bottle. So that’s a thing.
Shandy is the name I just learned for a beer cocktail that I used to like a lot. When my dad lived in Copenhagen in the 60s, he and his Danish friends used to mix their beer with lemonade in the summer. He passed this trick down to me and my sister, and we both really liked it. In college I drank my beer this way quite a bit. It’s super refreshing!
beer mixed with juice or soda
My IPA shandy is a little bit unconventional. Instead of a juice or soda mixer, I’m using a more concentrated fruit puree and no added sugar. Because you guys know that I don’t like a lot of refined sugar in my drinks.
Using this beer in an IPA shandy has an added benefit: the ice and the mango puree turn one beer into two pint-sized cocktails. It’s basically a 50 percent discount. Fancy
To make it, you just puree your mango and lime juice, dole it out into glasses full of ice, and top with Sculpin Habanero IPA. Easy peasy!
If you’re making this for a party, you can multiply the puree for as many as you’ll need, and mix them up on the spot. The recipe below yields about 1 cup, so scoop 1/4 cup into each glass if you’re going the bigger batch route.
Yield: 4
In your blender, puree the mango and lime juice until you have a nice, smooth puree.
Divide the mango puree between 4 pint glasses full of ice, and top with the Sculpin. There is a little bit of finesse required here, because pouring beer over ice can make a lot of foam. Tilt your glass, and very slowly pour the beer down the tilted side, stopping to stir gently if it starts to foam up. This is more a trickle of beer than a pour. Take your time pouring, and you’ll end up saving time that you would have spent waiting for half a pint of foam to settle down. Continue tilting and slowly pouring until you have a full glass. Stir to combine, and serve!
Hi there! My name is Becky Striepe (rhymes with “sleepy”), and I am a crafts and food writer from Atlanta, Georgia with a passion for making our planet a healthier, happier, and more compassionate place to live. My mission is to make vegan food and crafts accessible to everyone! [
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