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Bartenders tap a new inspiration for cocktails
Something new is on tap on the bar scene as adventurous mixologists brew up beer cocktails.
"Beer as an ingredient can offer such a wide variety of flavors," says Jacob Grier, a drinks blogger who tends bar at Metrovino in Portland, Ore. "They can be sweet and malty. They can have chocolate roast-y notes. It can be a great complement to a cocktail."
For most people, beer and liquor have never been more than nodding acquaintances.
Sure, maybe you've had a shot with a beer chaser, or, in more reckless moments, a boilermaker - in which the shot glass of liquor is dropped directly into the pint of beer.
But the new trend goes far beyond that, with mixologists looking for creative new ways to blend beer and booze.
Grier was introduced to the beer cocktail after watching Canadian beer writer Stephen Beaumont concoct some at a cocktail event a few years ago.
Beaumont got his inspiration from Northern France, where he says beer cocktails are surprisingly common. "Once I tried a couple over there, I just had to give making my own creations a shot," he said in an e-mail.
He sees beer cocktails falling into three categories - beer blends; beer mixed with something else, such as juice, spirits or other flavoring ingredients; or beer used as a flavoring ingredient in a cocktail.
When mixing beers with spirits, it's important to look for harmony, like the fruitiness of rums and most IPAs, or the aromatics of some blonde ales and gins, Beaumont says.
Grier finds gin and herbal flavors work really well because they have the aromatics to stand up to beer.
Grier, along with Yetta Vorobik, owner of The Hop and Vine beer bar in Portland and Ezra Johnson-Greenough, who runs The Ne
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