
We have the perfect adult beverage for anyone and everyone to enjoy (over the legal drinking age of course) during winter months, our Blood Orange Shandy! Not only is this beer-cocktail gorgeous, but it’s so simple to make and incredibly delicious!
We take advantage of all the gorgeous winter citrus every year and blood oranges are something we can never get enough of, ever! The blood oranges along with the splash of sparkling water in this shandy make this drink so refreshing!
How to Make Our Blood Orange Shandy
Process

SIMPLE SYRUP
- Place sugar and water in small saucepan and simmer until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and cool.

SHANDY
- Combine simple syrup and orange juice into a liquid measuring cup and stir together.

- Fill four drinking glasses with ice and divide blood orange juice mixture amongst four glasses. Fill each glass with half of beer and stir together. Garnish each glass with blood orange slices and mint leaves, if using.Serve.




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Make Ahead Instructions for Our Blood Orange Shandy
The simple syrup can be made up to 1 week in advance and stored in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, until ready to use.
If making freshly squeezed blood orange juice yourself, which we highly recommend, it can be made up to 3 days in advance and stored in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, until ready to use.

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Blood Orange Shandy
INGREDIENTS
simple syrup
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
shandy
- 1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed and strained blood orange juice (from about 4 to 5 oranges)
- 24 ounces pilsner of choice (or hefeweizen)
garnish
- 8 blood orange slices
- 4 sprigs mint leaves
INSTRUCTIONS
simple syrup
- Place sugar and water in small saucepan and simmer until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and cool.
shandy
- Combine simple syrup and orange juice into a liquid measuring cup and stir together.
- Fill four drinking glasses with ice and divide sweetened orange juice. Fill each glass with half of beer and stir together. Garnish each glass with blood orange slices and mint leaves, if using.Serve.
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Thanks for sharing
This is really great. I tried it at my home and it really good in taste.
Thanks for sharing such useful information, Keep sharing.
This is SO good. I love blood orange & love shandy’s… so refreshing.
thanka a lot for this recipe!
I’m in! This works for me, love pilsners and blood orange flavored anything, just hadn’t paired them before, so thank you for this recipe!