Beer cocktail explained

A beer cocktail is a cocktail that is made by mixing beer with other ingredients (such as a distilled beverage) or another style of beer. In this type of cocktail, the primary ingredient is usually beer.

List of beer cocktails

• Black and tan – A layered drink made from a blend of pale ale and a dark beer such as a stout or porter. Traditionally uses bitter and stout.
• Black Velvet – A layered drink using a combination of Stout and sparkling wine or champagne.
• Blow My Skull – Ale or porter with rum and brandy
• Boilermaker – Mild ale mixed with bottled brown ale (United Kingdom). The American version is a glass of beer with a shot of whiskey.
• Flaming Doctor Pepper – a flaming drink made from a bomb shot of high-proof alcohol and Amaretto ignited and dropped into a pint of beer.
• Hangman's blood – Porter combined with brandy, gin and rum.
• Irish car bomb – a pint glass containing half a pint of Irish stout with a mixed bomb shot of Irish cream and Irish whiskey.
• Michelada – Beer with citrus juice (e.g. lime juice), tomato juice, seasoning, chili sauce and Worcestershire sauce.^[1] A variant of Spanish; Castilian: [[cerveza preparada]] (Mexican prepared beer).
• Porchcrawler – Equal parts of beer, vodka, and lemonade concentrate.
• Queen Mary – Beer with grenadine and maraschino cherries, originally from Canada, named for Mary of Teck.
• Red Eye – beer, tomato juice (or clamato in Canada), with optional lemon or hot sauce.^[2]
• Sake bomb – Shot of sake poured or dropped into a glass of beer.
• Shandy or radler – Beer with lemonade, citrus soda, ginger beer, ginger ale, or fruit juice, e.g. grapefruit.^{[3] [4] [5]}
• Snakebite – Equal parts lager and cider.
• Somaek – Soju mixed with beer.
• U-boot – Glass of beer with a bomb shot containing vodka.

See also

• List of cocktails
• Beer mix
• Bierlikör – beer liqueur

Notes and References

1. Web site: Goyanes . Ily . January 3, 2014 . Battle of the Cerveza-Mixed Drinks: Cuba's Bul vs. Mexico's Michelada . Miami New Times.
2. Book: Media, Adams . The Bar Cart Bible: Everything You Need to Stock Your Home Bar and Make Delicious Classic Cocktails . 2017 . Simon and Schuster . 978-1-5072-0116-9 . 34 . en.
3. Web site: What's the Difference Between a Radler and a Shandy?. Coastal Living. 2019-07-21. 2020-08-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200813054507/https://www.coastalliving.com/food/entertaining/difference-between-radler-shandy-beer-cocktail. dead.
4. Web site: What Is the Difference Between a Radler and a Shandy?. Chowhound. 25 September 2021 .
5. Web site: A Guide to Citrus Beer: What is a Shandy and a Radler?. April 3, 2019. KegWorks Blog.