I’m interested in hearing what beer cocktails you enjoy. Especially in hot weather sometimes this is very appealing.
I have a Mexican Vienna Lager (similar to Negra Modelo) on tap and sometimes enjoy making a michelada when it’s hot. These are popular in Texas – I know to be on the restaurant/bar menu in numerous places in Austin, typically with light colored Mexican lagers.
My recipe: to a beer glass 2/3 filled with beer add and gently stir in 3 or 4 oz V8 / tomato juice, a shake or two of worcestershire and tabasco, a squeeze of fresh lime juice and then drop in 3 ice cubes.
First off great thread idea. Never had michelada but definitely will soon!
My current favorite and I’ve done EXTENSIVE trials. Really. 50/50 Labatt Blue/Sauva margarita premade (with booze). Jose Quervo works too but prefer Sauza and added bonus its half the price of Jose.
I always have enjoyed a beermosa! Half beer half o.j. works best in my opinion with any light colored beer. Great with ipa’s,hefe,pale ale’s etc. Plus a great way to enjoy a beer in the a.m. without people/wife’s judging you!
I generally prefer my beer unadulterated but since I have so much mead I have been making mead versions of cocktails.
I served Mead-hattan, Mead-jito, and a Negroni-mead at HBC, for instance.
I think you guys might get a kick out of this but not beer related. An EXTREMELY popular summer drink around me is the brandy alexander with a spin. Blenders run constantly… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPJKkGEeUU
I made a hibiscus wit, and made a cocktail with it the other day. Captain Morgan, lime, and hibiscus wit. I’m planning on trying it with tequila sometime this week.
Interesting take on a margarita - I assume a regular margarita is one of the world’s most popular cocktails. I’ve eaten in restaurants that had a wine and beer license but no hard liquor license, and offered margaritas made with wine.
I must admit I can’t recall trying any other beer cocktails besides a michelada - I can’t even remember any I’ve seen promoted other than the michelada or beer mimosa (and only learned of beermosa recently). I know there are longstanding traditions including flavored syrup in Berliner weisse - but that is so traditional I don’t think it counts as a beer cocktail.
I wonder if anyone has tried something along the lines of beer sangria. :o edit: Hey I saw just that via Zwiller’s link!
Interesting, I think I myself was hung up on the word cocktail. I was going to say I’ve never had a beer cocktail, but half the huffpost list is variations on Shandy, so I reckon I’ve had at least that. I didn’t really consider that a “cocktail”. I know my wife like “red beer” but hasn’t had it in a while.
To my knowledge, I’ve only had one cocktail with beer in it, but I’m really having to wrack my brain. I assume it was at a McMenamins since they tend to do wacky stuff like that, but I don’t remember what it was, so it wasn’t too memorable. I think it had whiskey and beer in it, but there was no way you’d ever know it had beer in it, the other flavors were too strong. I think the things on these lists are designed to make sure you recognize the beer in them, hence a beer cocktail, rather than a whiskey cocktail with a splash or float of beer.
Some of the restaurants around here server some beer cocktails or beer blends. The snakebite is one of my favorite beer blends if I am looking for something a little different. Most places use Angry Orchard and Guiness for the snakebite which is a great combo IMO, but I could see several other homebrew stouts and ciders working well together.
Same here. I like an occasional margarita at a Mexican place, and definitely good Scotch and good bourbon on occasion. But I like beer to be beer. Each his own.
Plain old red beers, but only with my infamous homebrewed, high octane tomato juice, and only with lagers. Sadly I’m out of the stuff and have been for a while, gonna have to get my poop in a group and build some more soon. The stuff goes down very well, I can go through a quart of juice and 3 or 4 beers in no time at all, especially during a good football game. On second thought, maybe I should hold off on making more juice ;).
Jon, you don’t ever partake of a lime wedge with a beer?
I think visor is on the right track here… My first foray into adulterating beer was corona with lime and I was hooked. But, it could have also been the sunset, boat ride, hot girls, and/or the reggae music. ;D
Blending beer is quite common in commercial brewing and pretty much any of these fruity beers are totally adulterated with flavor extracts and sweeteners and are not brewed in the traditional manner at all.
I bought a can of Steigl Radler for my wife to take on a raft trip. She let me taste it. It actually was not bad. Way better than those crappy shandys the Leinenkugel sells.
I was once served a Negra Modelo with a lime wedge stuck halfway down the neck. I pulled it out in frustration, but I have to admit that the flavor left in the neck worked pretty well with the beer. I’d probably consider rubbing the rim of a glass of lager with a lime wedge at some point, but that’s as far as I’d go.
If I want a particular flavor in beer, then I’ll just brew with it. Or more likely, I’ll find a hop varietal that tastes like it and use that instead.
This appears to be an interesting developing trend - identifying any additive to beer as entering into at least the province of a beer cocktail, aka “adulterated beer”. I say that in jovial acquiescent way. I recollect looking on in horror a fair number of times when somebody “ruined” a good beer by doctoring it.
Still, I really often like a hefeweizen with a slice of especially lemon. or maybe orange at least as well as served “naked”.
I guess I forgot to mention growing up in Montana there were some (morning) Sunday’s watching football and drinking red beers which required less and less tomato juice as time went by – always served with pretty much the all-powerful and only option of American lagers served in a bar or available at your grocer.
I will again say there are some very imaginative innovations, and authentic personal preferences being presented. Thanks so much for sharing on this subject that quite honestly I was a little afraid to begin, knowing that beer heroes make and drink beer!
