Bartender defends beer cocktails
Guest post from Jacob Grier, the head bartender at Carlyle in Portland, who writes the blog Liquidity Preference.
As Rob noted recently, making cocktails with beer is to enter strange territory -- sometimes delicious, sometimes an easy way to ruin perfectly good beer (beer and melon liqueur, anyone?). Today we'll take a look at a couple beer cocktails that hopefully fall into the former category.
Both of these drinks combine Belgian beers with gin. You might think this is no way to treat a great Belgian, and most of the time I'd agree! But my take is that, as with all cocktails, you should use the best ingredients for the job. These strong, aromatic ales play really well with the botanicals in gin; mixed together, they offer interesting new ways of tasting some old favorites.
