A beer cocktail for m'lady?

• From Digital City

Forget for a moment the stereotyped idea that drinking beer is primarily a male pastime. In reality, more women are drinking beer than ever before. And with pretty beer cocktails adorning drink menus across the nation, guzzling down a cold brew can hardly be called unladylike.

Classic beer cocktails include lager and lime, the snakebite (half beer and half cider) and the black velvet (half stout and half champagne). Now, with the increased popularity of 'booze brews,' bars and restaurants are getting even more creative. Bartenders are mixing up concoctions of beer and raspberry liqueur, wheat beer and Blue Curaçao, and even beer and Kahlua.

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