I've never spent much time fooling around with mixing beer and spirits - not in the same glass anyway. That's not to say I didn't slam the occasional bomb in my youth, or maybe float vodka into a beer to fortify it into Yorsh, and a properly-made Shandy on the right occasion will knock your socks off. But beer cocktails? I'm missing the boat.

“I started playing with beer cocktails,” Grier said, “after attending a seminar in New Orleans two years ago by Canadian beer writer Stephen Beaumont, about seeing beer as an ingredient instead of the drink itself. He made a cocktail there called a Green Devil that combined the aromatics of gin and absinthe with the big, foamy head of Duvel (Belgian ale) to make a fantastic drink.”

The full article is worth a read, and while they mention some drinks featuring PBR, these aren't your granddaddy's boilermakers. Check out our favorite recipe - looks like we'll have to head down to the Three Penny Taproom and see if they'll whip up something like that for me.

Oregon Live [via Liqurious]

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