With a hundred different beer styles flooding the market, ‘Beertails’ or Beer Cocktails can be brand-new creations or riffs on classic cocktails. The options you got are endless. Try some of these Beer Cocktails right away.
And why not? Try mixing it into a delicious cocktail, if it makes your favorite beer even better. Beer need not be a solo act, think of what else you could do with that tasty, crispy lager or ale?
However, remember before you start that beer adds bubbles, body, and a frothy kick to cocktails. It is the star of the show to other ingredients forming the mix. It accents Aperol or mezcal. Moreover, beer is here and primed to amp up the refreshment of your next cocktail.
Get Down to Trying These Beer Cocktails
You can always get the right flavor by mixing light beer with Ginger Ale, Sprite, and Mountain Dew. Match the right beer with the right type of soda to get that zesty, spritzy, and sweet shandy experience.
Here are some proven Beertails to start with –
- Bloody Roman: Are you looking for a new beer-based brunch drink? Micheladas may not be complex enough or savory for your taste. Give Bloody Roman a try! This Beer Cocktail constructively combines capers, chiles, tomatoes, olives, shallots, and fish sauce with beer. And don’t forget to top each glass with a couple of freshly shucked oysters. Why would you need a breakfast burrito when you can have a meal in a glass of Beertail?
- Bodega Dog: Gin makes a classic combination with grapefruit. Adding grapefruit juice to gin will fetch you the traditional Greyhound. You can also have a Salty Dog when you add a salt rim. To get this tasty and refreshing Beer Cocktail, just replace the grapefruit juice with the grapefruit-flavored wheat beer from Schöfferhofer.
- Boiler Room: A mix of bourbon, ginger liqueur, marigold tea, lemon juice, and honey syrup, topped with wheat beer, will deliver you this summery cocktail. Boiler Room is a combination of familiar flavors in an unexpected mix. Chances are that your new go-to comfort Beer Cocktail may just become your favorite drink.
- El Chapo: This Beer Cocktail takes the gin-and-grapefruit-beer combo a step further. El Chapo adds strawberry-infused Aperol for a sweet, fruity, and very slightly bitter touch to the drink. Most likely you have some of that fruity Aperol left over. Go ahead and use it in a Spritz for a two-in-one summer drink ingredient to make your day.
- Here Comes the Sun: It is a little surprise that suds have bled into the cocktail list. Bar Roofers Union and Washington, D.C., Restaurant get high marks for its beer program. Here Comes the Sun Beer Cocktail is where rye whiskey lends spice and depth that plays well with the ginger and lemon. The citrus and spice elements in this Beertail are enticed together along with a splash of wheat beer. The mix gives the whole shebang a refreshing fizz.
- Michelada: This Beer Cocktail may just beat the Bloody Mary as the best savory brunchtime drink. Michelada takes a Mexican lager and adds lime juice, Tabasco, and Worcestershire sauces, along with an array of spices. However, choose your favorite beer as the starting point. You can never go wrong with a Mexican lager like Modelo Especial or Tecate.
- Mayan Michelada: Perfecting the original Michelada is made simple with this Central American touch. Get ready to crank out batches of this updated version of Beer Cocktail at your next brunch. Customarily, beer is the single source of alcohol in a Michelada. However, with a small touch of Joven mezcal, New York City’s Tijuana Picnic gives its Mayan Michelada an extra jolt. It adds agave notes and subtle smoke to the Beer Cocktail.
- Lagerita: Think of a Beer Cocktail that is even more refreshing than a Margarita. Lagerita Beertail is crowned with a Mexican lager. The drink mix makes for an ultimate mashup. Shake it all up with a typical mix of tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice. Then top it with Modelo Especial to have a drink you’ll be craving throughout the summer.
- Radler Paloma: An ideal location to sip this grapefruit cooler may be the alfresco rooftop at 8UP Drinkery & Kitchen in Louisville, Kentucky. But this Beer Cocktail tastes equally good when mixed well at home. Radler Paloma’s take on the Mexican classic makes a match of Stiegl Radler and tequila. It is then rounded out by fresh grapefruit and lime juices. The finished Beertail is a tall, cool, and refreshing drink that is just a bit boozier than the typical Paloma.
- Ruby Hearts: Employing both bitter liqueur Campari and IPA alongside mezcal, lime juice, and a cinnamon-demerara syrup this Beer Cocktail proves that bitter is indeed better. The bitter flavors of the drink accent the richness of the syrup and the grassy smokiness of the mezcal, rather than overwhelming the drink. Ruby Hearts evolves as an unexpectedly balanced Beertail concoction.
- Rye House Spring Beer Cocktail: This Beer Cocktail is a pleasant outcome from Lynnette Marrero and Jim Kearns, the cocktail masterminds. This seasonal Beertail calls for topping applejack, genever, loganberry liqueur, ginger syrup, and lime juice, with lager beer. Although Rye House Spring Beer Cocktail is an unusual combination but is perfectly suited for celebrating the arrival of warm weather.
Beer though as such is special on its own. It also provides a fantastic base for mixed drinks. With newer recipes that break up your beer-drinking routine, give yourself and your friends a wonderful time. There are a variety of beer styles and craft brews available nowadays.
Recon them as Beer Cocktails or Beertails. The drinks mentioned above are not cocktails in the true sense since most of them do not include liquor. Call them any which way you like; have fun anyway, by exploring ways that mix and go well with your beer.