Sometimes you have access to good beer. But other times, your pocket money only allows you to buy less flavorful beer.
Well, as the posters say, if life gives you bad beer, mix it with lemonade. Or you could, as the Boston Globe suggests, make yourself a pitcher of “beeritas.”
Made with tequila, sweetened lime juice, and a light lager, beeritas are like the bastard child of Budweiser and Jimmy Buffett. By all accounts, the sweet, refreshing cocktail goes down easy. And it’s a natural with nachos.
While beer-based cocktails have fallen out of favor in the last few decades, the article notes that at one time drinks like the Shandy, the Boilermaker, and the Black and Tan were all the rage—and they may be making a comeback:
Search the Web and a site such as thatsthespirit.com will give some more exotic options: Liverpool Kiss (dark beer with cassis), Bee Sting (dark beer and orange juice), Skip and Go Naked (beer, lemon juice, gin, and a dash of grenadine), Broadway (beer and cola, it’s big in Japan), Caribbean Night (beer and an ounce of coffee liqueur), and South Wind (beer with a shot of melon liqueur).
Just don’t order them in your local handcrafted-beer brewhaus.
Beer and V8, mmmmm . . ., I think my dad call this a bull’s eye.
I used to love the Snakebite in England: cider and beer (usually lager).
Even better: a “Michelada”: fresh lime juice squeezed into a salt-rimmed goblet, ice cubes, mabe a dash of salsa picante, Worcestershire etc, and filled with beer.
Sometimes these are made with Clamato, and there’s a seafood version with shrimp and raw oysters in the glass.
You can have the Tequila as a shot on the side.
yeah, I don’t know. I’ve got a couple corona lights in the fridge that I might experiment with (they taste like tonic water anyway) but I like (real) beer a little too much to make a cocktail out of it. The snakebite sounds good though.
CHOW has a Michelada recipe – http://www.chow.com/recipes/10662
Years ago, one of the tequila brands (I don’t remember which one) was promting a drink called “The .45″: fill a large glass with ice cubes, sprinkle lightly with salt, pour in a shot of tequila and fill with beer. I drank them a few times with my buddies in the Army… but then, again, we soldiers drank anything with alcohol in it!
Circumstances once dictated that I drink cheap warm beer on the rocks with a shot of ouzo poured on top (kind of like an Italian soda). I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I haven’t tried one in at least 10 years, so try at your own risk.