Ingredients
- 1/2 pint beer
- 1/2 pint soda water
pint glass
Instructions:
Combine 1/2 pint of your favorite microbrew with 1/2 pint of soda water. Serve straight up in, yep, a pint glass.
The Wondrich Take:
To mix a Cincinnati Cocktail, pour a pint glass half-full of beer and top it off with soda water. Why you would want to do this, we'll get to in a minute.
First, Cincinnati? Far as we can tell, the name's a joke -- on the order of, as one of our correspondents points out, "Staten Island whitefish," which is a used condom floating in the water. Back before World War I, when sauerkraut suddenly turned into "liberty cabbage," Cincinnati was known for its immense and very out German population (they even taught the public schools auf Deutsch). And Germans drink beer. So, if you make a cocktail with beer.... We said it was a joke; we didn't say it was funny. It is, however, really quite refreshing.
And that's why you drink it. Use a good, full-flavored microbrew, and it'll be tastier than any lite beer ever attempted, and just as thirst-quenching. Some of the early authorities (the drink goes back to the 1880s) suggest you cut your beer with lemon soda or ginger ale. That we don't recommend (although English ale and ginger beer, when mixed, produce the classic, and tasty, Shandy Gaff).
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