While most alcoholic beverages have robust cocktail lives, mixing merrily with bitters, juices, sugars, and other boozes in an infinity of concatenations, beer has managed to stay pretty much above the fray — with the exception of the occasional michelada. But at the New York City restaurant JoeDoe, cocktail whiz Jill Schuster runs a bar menu where beer factors into more than half of the drinks on offer. Often they share space in the glass with stronger spirits like tequila, vodka, or gin, but in the Mr. Adams — a drink Schulster developed for brewery Sam Adams — the beer stands alone. Keep reading »
