Mixing It Up

Mixing It Up

Mixing It Up is an introduction to beer mixology. What I found was that a lot of mixology books don't really cover beer mixes, blends, or cocktails in a sufficiently detailed or complete manner. So I decided to write the book on beer mixology. The contents of the book divide up naturally into three sections: (1) beer blends, (2) beer mixers, and (3) beer cocktails. Beer blends are beers mixed with other beers. Beer mixers are beers mixed with nonalcoholic beverages. Beer cocktails are beers mixed with liqueurs and other (non-beer) alcoholic beverages.

The text of Mixing It Up will be serialized during 2007 on The Spirit World.

Popular Beer Cocktails

Absolutely Nuts

stout, 1 shot of vodka, 1 shot of Irish Cream, 1 tsp sugar, 2 cherries. (I doubt that anyone has actually made this. Irish Cream tends to coagulate and look really nasty in stout.)

Ale Punch

ale, shots of brandy and sherry, add cloves cinnamon, sugar, and lemon juice (server warm?)

Baltimore Zoo

Mix gin, vodka, rum, tequila, Guinness (or any stout I presume), and grenadine.

Bee Sting

dark beer and orange juice

Black Adder

unblended Poor Man's Black Velvet, cider on bottom, stout on top (see also Crown Float)

Black & Tan

equal parts stout and pale ale

Black Bart

equal parts stout and cola

Black Cossask

stout and vodka

Black Pecker

stout blended with Woodpecker cider

Black Velvet

equal parts stout and champagne

Blow My Skull Off

stout, rum, cayenne pepper, lime juice, and opium (optional)

Boilermaker

a glass of beer with a shot of whiskey (either poured in, or as a chaser)

Broadway (or Diesel)

equal parts lager and cola (popular in Japan)

Caffeine Bomb

Newcastle Brown Ale, Espresso, Jack Daniels, and Red Bull

Carbomb

see Irish Car Bomb

Caribbean Night

beer mixed with coffee liquer

Cerveza Preparada (see also Chavela)

Mexican term for beer cocktails, covers many beer cocktails with traditionally Mexican ingredients -- think Mexican shandy

Chavela (see also Red Eye)

beer (usually Mexican beer) mixed with tomato, V8 juice, or Clamato, optionally season with hot sauce or salsa, served in an ice-cold salt-rimmed mug and garnished with crudite (carrot or celery) and/or shrimp

Chocolate Truffle

Young's Double Chocolate Stout with a splash of Lindemans Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic

Cider Cup

basically a cider sangria, fresh crushed orange slices mixed with 5 measures of cream sherry, 3 measures of orange liqueur, and 2 measures of amaretto, added to cider

Clamato Beer

3 parts Clamato and the juice of half a lemon or lime, 1 part Mexican beer, add hot sauce to taste, coat rim of glass with mixture of salt and chili powder, served on ice

Colaweizen

hefeweizen mixed with cola, popular in Germany

Cream of Wheat

equal parts stouts and hefeweizen

Crown Float

a branded version of the Black Adder specifically requiring Strongbow cider and Guinness stout

Dark & Smooth

stout and port

Diesel (or Diesel Shandy)

see Broadway, evidently Diesel is the German name for a Broadway, (see also Colaweizen)

Diesel

a Snakebite with a shot of cassis

Donald

glass of beer with a shot of rum

Dr Pepper (or Flaming Dr Pepper)

3/4 shot of amaretto, 1/4 shot of Bacardi 151, set the shot on fire (optional unless you want the Flaming variety) and then drop it into a glass half full of beer (warning, people have been injured trying to consume this drink)

Flaming Cheeky Tractor

half pint of beer, Baileys Irish Cream, Smirnoff Ice, port, WKD Blue, sambuca.

Gator Beer

beer mixed with Gatorade

Green Monster

a Snakebite with a shot of Midori and a shot of Blue Curacao

Grenadine

in the Snakebite family of beer cocktails, in Australia, a Snakebite is just beer and grenadine (no cider), it's known as a Grenadine in French-speaking parts of Europe, or Grena-beer, or Christmas beer (see Wikipedia: "Snakebite")

Half & Half

equal parts stout and lager

Hulk

lager topped with WKD Blue

Hummingbird Water

pear cider with a splash of Lindemans Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic

Irish Car Bomb (or Belfast Car Bomb)

Irish style stout with a shot of Irish whiskey (poured in)

Irish Setter

stout layered with IPA

Lava Lamp

equal parts stout and lager with a splash of Lindemans Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic

Lager & Lime

equal parts lager and lime soda

Liquid Viagra (Penis Stretcher)

beer with Red Bull

Liverpool Kiss (Black & Black)

stout with a shot of cassis (black currant liquer)

Loaded Corona

basically a high octane shandy, it's lager with a shot of Bicardi Limon

Maui Mouthwash

fruit beer, rum, vodka, blue curacao, & pineapple juice

Magické Oko

shot of zelená liqueur dropped into a glass of beer

McLester Bomb

Red Stripe and a shot of Jamaican rum

Mexican Iced Tea

1/2 shot of tequila, 3 shots of Mexican beer, served on ice with a lime

Michelada (or Cubana)

beer poured over ice with juice of one lemon, add a dash of soy sauce, Tobasco, and Worcestershire, add a pinch of salt and pepper (Tequila optional). Another variation includes mixing equal parts beer and tomato juice or Clamato.

Mountain Dew

melon liqueur in a shot glass dropped into a glass of shandy

Myztisa

beer mixed with cola, milk, and a shot of rum

Negro y Marron (Mexican Black and Tan)

1 or 1.5 parts Clamato, juice from half a lemon or lime, 2 parts Corona, 2 parts Negra Modelo, 1/3 part tequila, season with hot sauce (to taste), coat rim of glass with salt, served on ice

New England Hay Ride

equal parts Magic Hat #9 and stout

Nut 'n Honey

nut brown ale and mead

Oatmeal Cookie

Young's Oatmeal Stout with a splash of Lindemans Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic

Ogre Juice

Sleeman's Cream Ale with with 2 shots of whiskey

Portagaff

shandy made with stout and lemonade

Radler (Bavarian Shandy or Panaché)

2 parts hefeweizen with 1 part lemonade or lemon soda. Here's a quote from that reliable source of information, Pravda: "Legend has it that in 1922 Munich chemist/bartender Franz Xaver Kugler ran out of beer serving thousands of cyclists, so he started combining lemonade with the lager. While not as tasty or famous as the Arnold Palmer (iced tea, you are lemon's true compliment), the Radler is still drunk in Germany and Austria as a summer thirst quencher (and a terrific buzz-getter)."

Raging Bull

Corona, tequila, and Red Bull

Raspberry Cream

hefeweizen with a splash of Lindemans Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic

Red Eye (Tomato Beer or Red Rooster, see also Chavela)

beer and tomato juice

Reuter Tooter

shot of cranberry liqueur and beer

Ruddy Mary

a traditional bloody mary made with beer instead of vodka (bascially a Red Eye with a splash of Tobasco and, optionally, a dash of Worcestershire)

Shandy (or Shandy Gaff)

3 parts beer to 1 part ginger ale

Skip and Go Naked

beer, gin, grenadine, and lemon juice

Skippy's

one part beer, one part vodka, one part lemonade

Smoothie (Poor Man's Black Velvet)

equal parts stout and cider

Snakebite

equal parts lager and cider, but there are many variations of this drink (see also Snakebite and Black, Diesel, Snakey B, Purple Nasty, Purple, Black, and Red Beer, all associated with the addition of creme de cassis; see also, Black Adder and Crown Float)

South Wind

beer mixed with melon liqueur

Strongbull

Strongbow and Red Bull

Teacher Creature

Scottish ale, scotch, and Drambuie

Terminator

Long Island Iced Tea with beer and Kahlua added

Tom Bass

Bass and a shot of Jagermeister

Tom O'Hawk (or Tomahawk)

half pint of stout with a double shot of vodka, topped with Smirnoff Ice

Uboot

beer and vodka

Whistle Belly Vengeance

beer with a shot of rum and a shot of molasses

Woodruff Berliner Weisse (Waldmeister)

wheat beer with two shots of Woodruff syrup

Yorsh

beer mixed with lots of vodka