Farsons Traditional Shandy

Brewed by Simonds Farsons Cisk
Style: Fruit Beer
Mriehel, Malta

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottle. Aroma of lemonade, a bit reminiscent of Mountan Dew. Sweet but not yet cloying, very refreshing, with a creamy carbonation and subtle malty notes in the finish. Well, this is one very good shandy!

Pours clear golden with a soapy white head. The aroma has ginger ale qualities with lots of ginger. Medium soft body with lots of semi-soft carbonation. the flavor starts with light malt, ginger with minimal bite and a mellow creaminess. The finish is sharper with the ginger and some mushiness and too much syrupy sweetness. Decent, but you’d be better off picking up a non-alcoholic well crafted ginger ale.

An orange beer with an off-white head. The aroma is spicy with ginger being most dominant. The flavor is very sweet and again with ginger being most dominant.

Bottle. Pours clear golden body with thin fluffy head, with continuing ring. Light refreshing, lemon/lime,malt smell. Sweet light citrus. Nice beer.

33 cL can. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is lemon/citric. Sweet and citric flavoured. Lingering sweet and citric into the far finish.

Experienced from a 12oz bottle in a pub glass. Given the extremely low alcohol content, and the fact that Farson’s Milk Stout was named one of the world’s 500 best beers by Michael Jackson, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The beer pours a very light yellow color, just about right on "straw-colored." The aroma is fairly similar to ginger ale, with some moderate notes of lemons and artificially sweetened lemonade. At the same time, what would seem like an unpleasant mixture of notes is not all that bad. The palate begins decently, showing slight notes of ginger ale, lemon, and low- to medium-crystal malt character, as well as a bit of hop bitterness. The melange isn’t bad, except for a wave of artificial tasting residual sweetness that appears toward the back end of the palate, and lingers in the finish. This ruins what otherwise could be a relatively crisp thirst-quencher, and renders the beer close to being undrinkable. Overall, an interesting idea and effort, but poorly designed and executed.

Enjoyed at Erato. Pour is clear golden with a smallish head with good retention. Nose is lemon and a bit of caramel. Flavor is cloyingly sweet and offers lemon. Finish brings a bit of butter. Feel is quite nice. It is smooth and creamy.

Medium coarseish head does not last. Pale yellow body with vigourous carbonation. Fruity lemon soda aroma. Sweetish-dry lemony mealy chalky straw taste with caramel notes. Light body. Clean palate. Dry grassy straw aftertaste with lingering bitter artificial chemical taste. Not bad for a shandy. (0.33l can, Duke’s, Victoria, Gozo.)

Can 33 cl. Courtesy of Pinball. Pours a clear yellow with an off-white head. Sweet, grapefruity aroma. Light body, sweet lemon accents - very sweet. No bitterness. Nice - if a little overly sweet. 161209

thanks to my dad for bringning this home from malta clear yellow, smooth white head. goas away quickly. aroma is artificial citrussy, faint beer. flavor is artificial citrussy, candy,