🍺 Beer Cocktails

Cocktails built with beer — from the classic Michelada to the Black Velvet and beyond. ← All 57 Classics

michelada🍺 Beer Cocktail
Easy~5% ABVBuild

Michelada

by Michel Ésper · San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 1940s
Ingredients
  • 330ml Light Mexican lager (Modelo or Corona)
  • 30ml Fresh lime juice · 5 dashes hot sauce
  • 5 dashes Worcestershire · Tajín & salt rim
Method

Rim a tall glass with Tajín & salt. Add ice, lime, hot sauce, Worcestershire. Pour beer gently. Mexico's answer to the Bloody Mary — widely called the world's greatest hangover cure.

black velvet🍺 Beer & Champagne
Easy~9% ABVLayer

Black Velvet

by Unknown · Brooks's Club, London, 1861
Ingredients
  • 150ml Guinness Draught Stout
  • 150ml Chilled Brut Champagne or Prosecco
Method

Pour chilled Champagne into a flute first. Slowly pour Guinness over a bar spoon to float it on top. Do not stir. Created to mourn Prince Albert's death — even the Champagne, they said, should wear black.

craft shandy🍺 Beer Light
Easy~2.5% ABVBuild

Craft Shandy / Radler

by Franz Kugler · Bavaria, Germany, 1922
Ingredients
  • 200ml Pale Ale, Lager, or Hefeweizen
  • 200ml Fresh-squeezed lemonade (or grapefruit juice)
  • Lemon slice
Method

Chill both. Pour simultaneously into a pint glass to preserve carbonation. Franz Kugler stretched his beer supply for 13,000 arriving cyclists in 1922 — sold 13,000 litres in one day.