The theme for last week’s Thursday Drink Night was “Brewer’s Ball” in honor of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Brewer’s Ball charity event this Saturday in Washington, D.C. The concept was to use beer in a cocktail. True, we did this back in July (see the drinks here) right before the beer-themed Mixology Monday; however, using beer in cocktails never grows old! Without further ado, let’s get to the hops-worthy highlights of the night.
Mark of A Drinker’s Peace was pretty crafty in that he did an inverse Boiler Maker. Instead of a dropping a shot into a beer, the shot was the beer into a Bourbon Daisy!
Boilermashup
• 1 1/2 oz Bulleit Bourbon
• 1/2 oz Zwack Unicum
• 1/2 oz Lemon Juice
Shake with ice and strain into a short Highball glass garnished with a lemon peel Horse’s Neck. Drop a shot glass full of IPA in, and drink.
Rated R Cocktails’ Seru crafted a spiced drink using Pabst that reminded me a lot of a Tiki champagne cocktail I had a while back!
Hipster’s Hiccup
• 1/2 oz Meyer Lemon Juice
• 1/2 oz Lucid Absinthe
• 1/2 oz Cinnamon Syrup
Shake with ice and strain into a champagne flute. Top with 3 oz of PBR and stir.
Zach Pearson went all fruity and funky on us with pear, grapefruit, and Belgian beer notes.
House in the Woods
• 2 oz Bols Barrel Aged Genever
• 1/2 oz Clear Creek Pear Liqueur
• 6 drops Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit Bitters
• 1 dash Lactart
Shake with ice and strain into a Double Old Fashioned glass with a single ice cube. Top with 3 oz Saison Dupont.
Jim Maserson (a/k/a Sunny & Rummy) took the more traditional Boilermaker route with a spiced and fortified rye bomb in a glass or rye beer. In addition, Jim won best pun drink name of the night honors with this riff of a New Orleans classic!
Brieux Carré
• 6 oz Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
• 1 1/4 oz rye
• 1 tsp Bénédictine
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
• 1 dash Peychaud’s Bitters
Assemble all but the beer in a shot glass. Drop the shot glass into a Highball glass containing the beer.
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