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Mar 22 2010

Beer Isn’t THAT Boring… Beer Cocktails Rule!

Published by Roxy at 11:30 am under Entertainment

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When I was in college there used to be this nearby bar that had a giant list of beers and lots of beer cocktails. One was my absolute favorite, it was a mix of Blue Moon with Lindeman’s Framboise Raspberry Lambic. Looks like I am not the only one who is a fan of beer cocktails. Esquire men’s magazine has come out with five new beer recipes for some great cocktails for us to try. Yes, it is a men’s magazine, but that doesn’t mean that us ladies can’t enjoy the beer cocktails too!

Porteree
Ancient, rich, sweet, rewarding, and simple.

Fill a pint glass ¼ of the way with chilled porter. (We generally use Anchor or Geary’s.) Stir in 1 tsp superfine sugar or, better, 1 tsp demerara sugar syrup (made with 2 parts raw sugar to 1 part water, heated and stirred until sugar has dissolved) and fill glass with cracked ice. Slowly top off with more porter until full. Grate nutmeg over the top.

Black Velvet
A classic. The most elegant and delicious of beer drinks.

Fill a champagne flute halfway with chilled stout. (Guinness is effective, but if you can get Brooklyn Black Ops, you’ll be in a whole other world.) Top off slowly with chilled brut champagne; this is a good use for that bottle of Veuve Clicquot you’ve been meaning to drink.

Shandy Gaff
This one goes back to the 19th century. It was light, spicy, and refreshing then and it still is now.

Fill a pint glass a little more than halfway with a good American pale ale (we like Mendocino Red Tail Ale), well chilled. Top off slowly with ginger beer, the spicier the better.

Berliner Weisse mit Schuss
Berlin’s traditional wheat beer is drunk with a schuss, or shot, of either green waldmeister syrup (germandeli.com) or red-raspberry syrup in it. Most pleasant.

Pour a 1 oz schuss of waldmeister or raspberry syrup into a large wheat-beer glass. Slowly add 16 oz cold Berliner Kindl Weisse or other light German-style wheat beer.

Groundskeeper
Can you do anything with just plain old Budweiser? Yup!

Pour 1 oz ultrasmoky single-malt Scotch, such as Ardbeg or Laphroaig, into a pint glass. Add 12 oz chilled Bud or other American pilsner.

Click here for a TON of recipes you can use to spice up your beer!