This highly spiced shandy from Laura Wagner of the Monarch Bar in Kansas City beats the pants off your popular beer-and-lemonade combo. Serrano-spiked honey and herb-inflected green Chartreuse beautify the peppery notes of whiskey and crisp kölsch or pilsner. Individual peppers can p.C. A various quantity of heat; in case you’re nervous, use just an unmarried chile.
Riled and Wrangled
It makes about 16 servings in a 2-quart pitcher
INGREDIENTS
2 cups rye (including Rittenhouse)
1 cup inexperienced Chartreuse
1 1/2 cups chilled serrano honey syrup (recipe follows)
One half of cups fresh lemon juice
TO SERVE
Six bottles or cans chilled kölsch or pilsner
16 celery ribbons (shaved the use of a sharp vegetable peeler)
Up to three days earlier than serving, make the batch. Pour rye, inexperienced Chartreuse, and chilled serrano honey syrup right into a 2-quart pitcher and stir to combine. If not serving right now, seal nicely, masking with plastic wrap if wanted, and refrigerate.
Up to 2 hours earlier than serving, put together lemon juice and stir into pitcher blend. Reseal and return to the refrigerator if no longer serving immediately.
To serve, stir the combination well. Fill pitcher with ice and stir lightly until out of doors of a pitcher is cool. Fill rocks glasses with ice, then cautiously pour in kölsch to fill glass approximately halfway (letting the foam settle). Top with pitcher blend and give each glass a short stir. Adjust with extra beer or pitcher mix to taste, if preferred. Garnish each glass with a ribbon of celery.
SERRANO HONEY SYRUP
It makes about 1 half cups
1 to 1 half serrano chiles, relying on warmness preferred
1 cup plus two tablespoons water
half of the cup plus one tablespoon honey
Slice chiles thinly, discarding stems and seeds. Place in a small saucepan and lightly crush with a muddler (you don’t want to make a puree). Add water and produce to a gentle simmer over medium-high warmth. When you spot the primary bubble, flip heat to low and keep warm for six minutes. Strain via a pleasant-mesh strainer into a resealable field. Stir in honey till incorporated, then let cool and refrigerate until chilled or for up to one week.
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