Beer cocktail

A "Badger" cocktail, made from Guinness and Smirnoff Ice

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A beer cocktail is a cocktail that is made by mixing beer with a distilled beverage or another style of beer. In this type of cocktail, the primary ingredient is beer. A mixture of beer with a beverage that contains a soft drink is usually called a shandy.

List of beer cocktails

• Black and Tan – Made from a blend of pale ale and a dark beer such as a stout or porter. Traditionally uses bitter and stout.
• Black Velvet – Stout with some sparkling wine or champagne. Cheap version uses cider and stout.
• Blow my Skull Off – Ale or porter with rum and brandy
• Boilermaker – Mild ale mixed with bottled brown ale or in the US a glass of beer with a shot of whiskey.
• Brass Monkey – Beverage created by adding orange juice to a partially drunk 40 ounce. Named after the Beastie Boys song although disputed whether this is the drink referred to in the song.
• Coronarita – Overturned Corona bottle draining into a margarita.^[1][2]
• Clam Pint – Lager with clamato. Occasionally served premixed or with the Clamato in a sidecar for the customer to add. Popular in Western Canada
• Depth Charge – Pint of beer with a shot of Drambuie dropped into it.
• Dog's Nose – Beer and gin, referred to in Tom Sharpe's book Grantchester Grind.
• Flaming Doctor Pepper – Flaming drink made from beer, high-proof alcohol and Amaretto. Tastes like Dr Pepper.
• Hangman's Blood – Porter combined with brandy, gin, and rum.
• Irish Car Bomb – Irish stout with a mixed shot of Irish cream and Irish whiskey.
• Lunchbox – Beer mixed with orange juice and a shot of Amaretto^[3]
• Michelada – Beer mixed with lemon juice, salt, Worcestershire sauce, Valentina and Maggi hot sauces.
• Micky Mouse – Equal parts of lager and bitter ^[4]
• Porchcrawler – Equal parts of beer, vodka, and lemonade concentrate.
• Portagaff – Stout with lemonade.
• Red Eye – Beer, Clamato juice, Worcestershire sauce, pepper.
• Sake bomb – Shot of sake poured or dropped into a glass of beer.
• Shandy – Beer with lemonade.
• Snakebite – Equal parts of lager and cider.
• Snakebite Black – Equal parts of lager and cider, and a shot of black currant cordial. Originally Creme de cassis was added instead of the cordial
• Somaek – Soju with beer. The ratio varies liberally.
• Tom Bass – Bass ale with a shot of Jägermeister served in a pint glass.^[5][6]
• U-Boot – Glass of beer with a shot glass containing vodka "submerged" in it.
• Vancouver Vice – Weiss beer based cocktail with gin, bitters, Pimms, citrus juices and strawberry honey syrup. ^[7]

See also

• Berliner Weisse
• Wassail
• List of cocktails

References