Grenadine pools at the bottom, cold lager rushes in, and the foam turns a soft pink. Drop in a few cherries and you have a sweet, easygoing beer mix that takes a minute to make.
½ oz
grenadine to taste
11¼ oz
lager well chillede.g. Heineken · Beck's · Carlsberg · Stella Artois · Peroni
3
maraschino cherries
Garnish: Maraschino cherries · Ice: Served up, no ice
Queen Mary
Sweet and light with cherry-red fruitiness over crisp lager. Low in alcohol and very easy to drink.
The Queen Mary is a simple beer mix of lager and grenadine, garnished with maraschino cherries. It is best known in parts of North America, where it is ordered in bars much like a shandy or a radler, as a sweeter, fruitier way to drink a light beer.
Nothing reliable is known about who named it or why it carries the name of the famous queen or the ocean liner. It belongs to a wide family of beer mixes that add a sweet or fruity element to lager, from the German Radler to the French Monaco of beer, lemonade and grenadine. Its appeal lies in its simplicity and its colour.
Lager, a little grenadine and a few maraschino cherries.
No, it has about the strength of the beer used, slightly diluted by the syrup.
A light, crisp lager or pilsner. It keeps the drink fresh and lets the pink colour show.
The perfect sound
A rosy pint with a royal wink.
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