Pimp Your Beer: Micheladas, Shandies And Other Cocktails Using Beer

The New York Times Magazine's recent homage to the delightful michelada and its variants inspired us to find some other uses for beer besides the general concept of "drinking it," with which we are all familiar and presumably enjoy.

Below are the two basic variations on the michelada, along with eight other beer-based cocktails worth checking out.

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The New York Times Magazine dives in to the makings of the classic savory Mexican beer cocktail:

The michelada neatly bridges two unsung categories of drinks I happen to love: savory cocktails and beer cocktails. ... In many recipes — and even a cursory search will turn up hundreds — the same suspects come up time and again: lime juice, salt, Worcestshire sauce, soy sauce, Tabasco or other hot sauce, powdered chilies, tomato juice, ice and beer (emphatically Mexican). There’s so much right with this drink that it’s hard to quibble with any of it. Even the most slapdash michelada is still worth drinking, specifically because the preparation covers up a host of shortcomings.

Toby Cecchini's concluding recipe at the New York Times Magazine calls for a tall glass with a salted rim, as much ice as you want, then the following ingredients to suit your taste: Fresh lime juice, about an ounce, or one lime’s worth Maggi Seasoning Salsa picante (bottled hot sauce) Worcestershire sauce Soy sauce 1-3 ounces tomato juice Beer, 12 ounces For an alternate variation, see slide 2. (Photo from The New York Times Magazine)

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The New York Times Magazine dives in to the makings of the classic savory Mexican beer cocktail:

The michelada neatly bridges two unsung categories of drinks I happen to love: savory cocktails and beer cocktails. ... In many recipes — and even a cursory search will turn up hundreds — the same suspects come up time and again: lime juice, salt, Worcestshire sauce, soy sauce, Tabasco or other hot sauce, powdered chilies, tomato juice, ice and beer (emphatically Mexican). There’s so much right with this drink that it’s hard to quibble with any of it. Even the most slapdash michelada is still worth drinking, specifically because the preparation covers up a host of shortcomings.

Toby Cecchini's concluding recipe at the New York Times Magazine calls for a tall glass with a salted rim, as much ice as you want, then the following ingredients to suit your taste:

Fresh lime juice, about an ounce, or one lime’s worth
Maggi Seasoning
Salsa picante (bottled hot sauce)
Worcestershire sauce
Soy sauce
1-3 ounces tomato juice
Beer, 12 ounces

For an alternate variation, see slide 2.

(Photo from The New York Times Magazine)

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[Yansumi Diwata]

01:35 AM on 08/04/2010

But you forgot about the Black Fog! A pint of Guinness with a shot of Chambord in it - it is divine!

[hauruck]

09:03 PM on 07/25/2010

I loves me some micheladas, and my wife is terribly fond of Shandies and Snakebites.

[jrakansas]

07:22 PM on 07/25/2010

I swear 30% of all the men around where I live drink their beer Red (just beer and tomato juice with salt). However, the shandy does remind me of one time where I was at the bar and a guy was drinking his beer with OJ. Had to try it, and it's really not that bad, especially with something stouter-tasting like an IPA.

[Sliceman]

02:13 PM on 07/25/2010

Use Clamato instead of tomato juice!

[kareemachan]

12:09 PM on 07/24/2010

Hop, Skip, and Go Naked: two parts beer to one part vodka and one part frozen lemonade concentrate. Yum!

[StephenJK]

08:10 AM on 07/23/2010

My first experience with beer mixing came when I lived in Germany. Weissbeir and Coke. Colabier. When I first saw it I was like "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot". When I tried it I was like "Oh that's what's up!" It was really good.

Too bad imports usually suck from all the travelling they have to do to get here. But, the American microbrew culture is picking up the slack. Drinking a German Weissbier over here is not even close to the quality you get over there. I hate it!

[DismayedRepub]

10:59 PM on 07/22/2010

As an accomplished award winning home brewer all I can say is yuck!

[newtom]

03:27 PM on 07/22/2010

A shandy is wonderfully refreshing and thirst-quenching drink. A British friend introduced me to them years ago and I've enjoyed them ever since. I've had them with ginger ale, and also with lemon-lime soft drink (sprite, etc) and both are good. Half of each, served over ice.

[kensp]

02:36 PM on 07/22/2010

The Michelada recipes are for Mayan riviera style Micheladas. The Mazatlan style Michelada is simpler. Just beer and lime juice over ice in an over sized Pilsner glass with a salted rim. It seems ridiculous to pour beer over ice, but on a hot day it really works.

[rambot02]

10:09 AM on 07/23/2010

Relaxing with my sweetie on a beach in the Bay Islands off Honduras with a cold Mazatlan-style michelada at hand is a treasured memory.
=^..^=

[spartanmom]

08:49 AM on 07/22/2010

When you use ginger ale or ginger beer in a Shandy, it is called Shandy Gaff.
At least that is what my Liverpool born grandmother called it. She introduced my sisters and me to it in the late 1970s when she was well into her eighties.

It is a very nice light summer drink.

[LarryinMiami]

08:37 AM on 07/22/2010

How did the disgusting word (and concept) "PIMP" BECOME MAINSTREAM? do you even know what it means, huffpo? Oh wait, I know, you are (like everyone else) appealing to the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF OUR "CULTURE." That word DISGUSTS ME.

[Sodbuster]

09:22 AM on 07/22/2010

Larry, I understand perfectly what you are saying, and tend to agree with much of what you are saying. You're fighting a losing fight, however. Vocabulary is "flexible" and word usage changes over time. Consider the word gay, as in "don we now our gay apparel." There are countless other examples.

[howeverfaraway]

08:22 AM on 07/22/2010

Then there is the "Irish Car Bomb". Drop a shot of Baileys (glass and all) into a pint of Guinness. Watch the Guiness"explode".

[biodieselvw]

09:12 AM on 07/22/2010

Um, it's whiskey, not baileys...

[SonicUltimate]

01:41 PM on 07/22/2010

Jamison, specifically. Not exactly a cocktail either.

[biodieselvw]

04:43 PM on 07/22/2010

Well, irish cream and irish whisky, dropped into a guinness. And you pound it, you don't sip it.

[Yansumi Diwata]

01:38 AM on 08/04/2010

that just gives you curdled Baileys and a ruined Guinness. tear jerking in both cases! I thought you were supposed to use Bushmill's Irish Whiskey in a Guinness for an Irish Car Bomb....?

[sadness4uns]

05:22 AM on 07/22/2010

I don't get it all these pretentious Americans acting like the authority of Food and Beverage..Makes me what to get drunk and laugh....Can I get a Pepsi 0 or a Coors light Please...LOL
American Diet Beer nuff said..

[lvadpro]

08:32 AM on 07/22/2010

You sound like a real blast to hang out with. It sounds like you need a beer...or twelve. Lighten up sparky.

[LarryinMiami]

08:55 AM on 07/22/2010

thanks for saving me the trouble of replying to that absurd comment!

[kareemachan]

12:10 PM on 07/24/2010

"makes me what to get drunk"

Methinks you already are....

[BobsOldSocks]

04:49 AM on 07/22/2010

What a waste of good beer.

[Steven Rau]

04:34 AM on 07/22/2010

Michelada... yum yum yum!!!