Thirsty Thursday
This week’s Thirsty Thursday features not just one cocktail recipe for your Happy Hour enjoyment – but TWO!
Both are beer cocktails, which clearly, we can not get enough of. And if you try these delicious (and easy to make) recipes, we have a feeling you will be on the beer cocktail bandwagon, too.
Smoke and Mirrors
Shaun Layton, the head barman at Vancouver’s L’Abattoir, returns for another guest-starring appearance with his deliciously smokey and spicy elixir. Don’t skip the salt rim – Shaun says that’s what tempers the bite of the heat … and keeps you coming back for more.
- 30 ml chili infused tequila
- 15 ml Aperol
- 10 ml agave nectar
- 15 ml fresh lime
- Mirror Pond Pale Ale
Add all ingredients, except beer, in a rocks glass with a half salt rim. Add ice, top with beer and a lime wheel garnish
Whiskey Radler
Taking a spin on the German styled Raddler beer, Justin Taylor, the bar manager at Vancouver’s Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar, gives this cocktail an autumnal twist by adding bourbon and apricot liqueur to locally-brewed wheat ale.
- 1 oz Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey
- 0.5 oz Giffard ‘Abricot du Roussillon’ (Apricot Liqueur)
- 0.5 oz lemon juice
- 0.5 oz honey syrup (1 part honey, 1 part hot water)
- 1 oz grapefruit juice
- 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
- 2 oz R&B Brewing Co. Sun God Wheat Ale