Beer cocktail

A Queen Mary: beer, grenadine and maraschino cherries

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 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
• Spaghett – Miller High Life mixed with Aperol and lemon juice ^[6]
• U-boot – Glass of beer with a bomb shot containing vodka

See also

• Beer portal

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

References

1. Goyanes, Ily (January 3, 2014). "Battle of the Cerveza-Mixed Drinks: Cuba's Bul vs. Mexico's Michelada". Miami New Times.
2. Media, Adams (2017). The Bar Cart Bible: Everything You Need to Stock Your Home Bar and Make Delicious Classic Cocktails. Simon and Schuster. p. 34. ISBN   978-1-5072-0116-9.
3. "What's the Difference Between a Radler and a Shandy?". Coastal Living. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
4. "What Is the Difference Between a Radler and a Shandy?". Chowhound. 25 September 2021.
5. "A Guide to Citrus Beer: What is a Shandy and a Radler?". KegWorks Blog. April 3, 2019.
6. Futterman, Lisa (18 July 2022). "Spaghett About It". Food & Wine . Retrieved 5 February 2025.