Shandy in the Shade

Everyone's on the lookout for new cocktails, beers, and wines, and the search most recently has involved mixing types, like adding wine or beer to cocktails. Another popular mixture, particularly in these hot summer months, is beer with a citrus-based drink, like lemonade ~ in other words, a shandy or radler*: http://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/beer/article/drink-shandy-in-summer
   (An interesting sidelight regarding this article is that, a couple of paragraphs after the assertion that "... beer-blended drinks ... have long been summertime mainstays across Europe" comes this quote, from a beer company founder: "We're American. We take any tradition we want and mess with it." Like the tradition of taking others' innovations and claiming we created them first?)
   *The difference between a shandy and a radler: http://www.pintley.com/browse/style/RadlerShandy/133
   Why buy when you can make?: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Lemon-Shandy-200681