Beer cocktail

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

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

• Admiral’s Flush - Guinness with a shot of port added in
• 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. A "Poor man's Black velvet" uses cider instead of champagne.
• Blow my Skull Off – 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. The beer is either served as a chaser or mixed with the whiskey.
• Brass Monkey – There are at least two cocktails going by this name. The beer version is created by adding orange juice to malt liquor.
• Bul – equal parts Corona (or pilsner or pale ale) and ginger ale, and lime juice. This sweet drink is a Cuban favorite.
• Coronarita – Overturned Corona bottle draining into a margarita.
• Clam Pint - Lager with Clamato. Occasionally served premixed or with the Clamato separate for the customer to add. Popular in Western Canada
• Depth Charge – Pint of beer with a bomb shot of Drambuie dropped within. A "depth charge" is also another name for a bomb shot.
• Dog's Nose – Beer and gin, referred to in Tom Sharpe's book Grantchester Grind.
• 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. Tastes like Dr Pepper.
• Hangman's Blood – Porter combined with brandy, gin and rum.
• Incredible Hulk - a variation of the cognac drink of the same name. Both share the similarity of a Hulk-like, green color. It combines equal parts of lager and WKD Blue.
• Irish Car Bomb – a pint glass containing half a pint of Irish stout with a mixed bomb shot of Irish cream and Irish whiskey.
• Lunchbox – Beer mixed with orange juice and a shot of Amaretto
• Michelada – "Prepared beer" (or a lager) with citrus juice (e.g. lime juice), tomato juice, seasoning, chili sauce and Worcester sauce. This tart, salty, and sour drink is popular in Mexico.
• Micky Mouse – Equal parts of lager and bitter
• Nueva Cuba – Tecate light with Coca-Cola.
• Porchcrawler – Equal parts of beer, vodka, and lemonade concentrate.
• Portagaff – Stout with lemonade
• Queen Mary – Beer with grenadine.
• Red eye - beer, Clamato juice, chili sauce, Worcester sauce.
• 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.
• Slushie - Frozen slush made from a base of beer.
• Snakebite – Equal parts of lager and cider.
• Snakebite & Black – Equal parts of lager and cider, and a shot of blackcurrant squash. Originally creme de cassis was added instead of squash.
• Smooth tickle – Bud Light, iced tea, and sugar.
• Somaek – Soju with beer. The ratio varies liberally.
• Tom Bass – Bass ale with a shot of Jägermeister served in a pint glass.
• Turbo Shandy - equal parts of strong lager and lemonade flavored alcopop.
• U-Boot – Glass of beer with a bomb shot containing vodka "submerged" in it.
• Vancouver Vice – Weiss beer based cocktail with gin, bitters, Pimms, citrus juices and strawberry honey syrup.

See also

• Berliner Weisse
• Wassail
• List of cocktails