Regardless of the comparatively latest rise of the Spaghett (Aperol and lemon juice poured right into a Miller Excessive Life) and its fellow not-quite-spritzes, beer cocktails have a protracted historical past. The “shandy,” a two-part mixture of beer with lemonade or ginger ale, was first talked about in print within the late nineteenth century, and glühbier has lengthy been a staple of European vacation ingesting. Fashionable bartenders haven’t shied away from the class, both, typically turning stouts, sours and IPAs into syrups so as to add layered dimension to quite a lot of cocktails. By now, the canon of beer cocktails has grown to incorporate loads of craveable, easy, built-in-the-glass drinks alongside a crop of beer cocktails that transcend the everyday two-part formulation. To showcase the various sides of the beer cocktail, we rounded up a few of our favorites, from an Americano topped with pilsner to the olive brine–spiked Midwestern bar staple, the Beertini.
