Mix Up Your Beer: 6 Beer Cocktails to Drink This Summer

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Summery beers are already on shelves or on tap, but another great way to enjoy a brew is in a mixed drink. In some cases, the blending lightens the alcohol for light drinking in the summer heat, while in other cases the beer becomes the mixer for booze.  

Never fear to experiment (stout floats, anyone?) but here are a few reliable options to get you started.

Shandy and Radler

Not the name of a 1970s buddy-cop series, but two monikers for essentially the same drink, though they originated independently in the UK and Germany, respectively.