Are you a cocktail person? Wish you were a beer person but aren’t sure what beer to drink? What does beer taste like, anyway? Well you’re in luck, we’ve taken your favourite cocktails and found the perfect beer to drink instead. So the next time you’re down the pub with your mates, you can sip on something other than your favourite cocktail and look like a right beer connoisseur.
Your Usual Order: Espresso Martini
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Flavour profile: An espresso martini feels smooth and velvety in your mouth. With a slight sweetness and a rich taste with the bitter coffee aftertaste. It’s totally moreish and you can never just have one(responsibly, of course).
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Next time try: If the renowned espresso martini is your go-to, you’ll probably like coffee beer. It has that same bitterness. A little bit of sweetness. And that rich coffee flavour you know and love.
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Beavertown must-try: Spresso Coffee Beer – Coffee. Stout. The two besties we never knew we needed. This is a smooth-sipping supernova with loads of deep caramelised flavours all backed up by all that great espresso flavour.
Your Usual Order: Mojito
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Flavour profile: Mojitos are the epitome of summer flavour. The zap of citrusy lime, the bitterness of the rum and mint, the smooth bubbles of the soda water. They all come together to create a refreshing cocktail from first to last sip.
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Next time try: Lager or German wheat beer for a similarly smooth, crisp, and refreshing taste with that slight finish of bitterness. Plus it’s equally good when sipped on a balcony in the sun in Spain or somewhere hot.
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Beavertown must-try: Beavertown Bones Lager – Hoppy. Bitter. Crisp. It’s got that citrus taste to give your tastebuds a little zap. There’s not much to say other than it’s just dead good lager.
Your Usual Order: Piña Colada
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Flavour profile: Who doesn’t love a Piña Colada? All those scrumptious tropical flavours coming together in one glass. With a healthy serving of cream to give it that super smooth mouth feel. It’s a tropical party in your mouth.
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Next time try: A tropical beer with plenty of fruit notes. Different combinations of hops can give beer loads of different fruit flavours. Try to find one that boasts a tropical fruity fiesta. And for that creamy pińa colada mouthfeel? Grab a hazy ale.
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Beavertown must-try: Sun God Tropical IPA – this IPA is all about the juice. Think pineapple ice cream and fruity flavours that’ll totally blow your tastebuds off.
Your Usual Order: Sex on the Beach
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Flavour profile: Sipping a Sex on the Beach is like drinking liquid sunshine. Not because it’s like a million degrees hot, but because it tastes like summer in a glass - thanks to all those fruity flavours mingling in your mouth.
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Next time try: Fruit beer. For the juicy fruit flavours we know you can’t resist, fruit beers are made using fruit juices. There are loads of different flavours you can find. Strawberry, cherry, watermelon, orange. The fruity possibilities are (almost) literally endless.
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Beavertown must-try: Cosmic Drop is our super juicy shandy beer. Made with fresh berries and fruits – the juice, pulp and oils – for an explosion of thirst-quenching flavour in a glass. Available in two delicious flavours: watermelon and berry punch.
Your Usual Order: Passion Fruit Martini
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Flavour profile: Passion fruit martinis hold a special place in our hearts. They’re sweet and fruity and have that tasty hint of bitterness from the prosecco.
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Next time try: IPA. It might seem like a hardcore switch but IPAs actually have a lot of tropical fruit flavours that you’ll probably love. Not only that, but the bitterness counteracts the sweetness so it’s really moreish, refreshing, and totally hits the spot.
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Beavertown must-try: Beavertown Neck Oil – Our OG session IPA that delivers out-of-this-world citrus and passionfruit flavour with a lower bitterness than other IPAs. It’s the perfect gateway into the world of beer.
Your Usual Order: Negroni
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Flavour profile: A Negroni is all about balance. The sweet and herbal and bitter tastes all rolled into one complex flavour.
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Next time try: If your idea of the perfect cocktail is a Negroni, you’ll probably really enjoy an American Pale Ale. APAs have a unique herbal, pine-y flavour as well as the usual hoppiness that we love in other ales.
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Beavertown must-try: American Pale Ales like Gamma Ray have plenty of sweetness balanced out by those great, bold, bitter notes you love from your usual Negroni.
We’re pretty sure that just because you’re a cocktail drinker, it doesn’t mean you can’t find a beer you’ll love too. And hey, if you want to mix the two together, why not check out some beer cocktails – cocktails made with beer? Sign us up.
