Talk:Beer cocktail

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[edit] Reason for creating this new page

This page will not remain a stub for long. It is part of the WikiProject Cocktails Cleanup Project and specified in the Hierarchy of Articles and Categories as the best place to discuss and list (at least initially) beer mixes. Until this point, beer mixes have been incorrectly lumped in with cocktails.

If anyone has anything to add to this article, please do so. This is essentially a placeholder until someone can add more information. I'd prefer that someone be someone other than me. :-) --Willscrlt 12:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shandys and Matters of Style

"beer mixed with lemonade; soda water; and ginger ale, ginger beer, or other soft drink"

It seems like there is a lot of soda and not much beer in this description. Which are the critical ingredients, which are optional, and which are the greatest in amounts by volume? Once that's sorted out, the description in the list should be arranged more or less like this (please excuse the improper grammar :-)

- beer, most ingredient, next most, and least. Alternate1, alternate2, or alternate3 may be substituted for original.

Please avoid referring to beer mixes as "cocktails" (because if they are true cocktails where there is more distilled spirits than beer, they belong in the List of cocktails#Cocktails with beer section instead of here), but may be referred to as "mixed drinks" or "beer mixes" (or both for variety).

The descriptions should avoid phrases like "a beer mix consisting of beer,..." or "made with beer, ...", because all the drinks listed are "beer mixes" and they are all "made with" the ingredients that follow. The extra wording gets in the way of readability and increases page length needlessly.

Thanks! --Willscrlt (Talk|Cntrb) 03:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)