I've mostly seen it done with that Budweiser pseudo-beer crap.
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I just got back from a vacation in Germany, and our tour guide ordered a "radler" (or maybe "rattler"?) every night: beer and lemonade. I tried it and thought it was pretty good. Maybe something to drink on a really hot day.
Nothing that you can do to make Coors Lite taste any worse IMO....So stick whatever you like in it 
That's a shandy.
From Wikipedia:
Radler (German for "cyclist") has a long history in German-speaking regions. It commonly consists of a 50:50 mixture of beer and sparkling lemonade. The origin of the name is lost to time, but is presumed to relate to the popularity of cycling and the need for a refreshing, less-alcoholic beverage on the journey.
In northern Germany, a half-and-half made of Pilsner beer and lemon soda is known as an Alster(short for Alsterwasser, German for "Water from the Alster" lake, a lake around which the city of Hamburg is situated).
We call that concoction a shandy. It's typically what we will use to ween the kiddies off silly drinks like breast milk and Ovaltine.
A prior top-shelf poly made the mistake of admitting to his penchant for a lovely cold shandy on a hot day. That unmanly little intimation undid the poor sod, almost entirely - sent him into a carbonated flat spin from which he never fully recovered.
I once took a six pack of Beck's and a bottle of Jack Daniel's to a party only to discover I had bought Alcohol-Free Beck's (!!) so to combat my complete and utter idiocy I decided to take a large swig out of the (pointless, alcohol-free) beer and fill it with Jack Daniel's. Worked a treat! 
We vacationed in Vera Cruz during the summer of '05 and experienced the hottest air temps I'd ever known. As we were coming back to our hotel mid day, in the 500 yr old old town square section of the city, where we had a room in an equally old hotel with no a/c, I saw a couple of guys sitting out front in the sidewalk cafe drinking something tall, amber, and looking gloriously cold. So we sat down and I told the waiter "We'll have what they are having." He brought out a small plate of lime wedges rolled in salt and two tall tumblers of ice. Then he poured Sol over the ice..."Cerveza Con Hielo"...and it was wonderful. He then brought out two large goblets filled with fresh sea meats swimming in a zesty tomato sauce infused with crunchy fresh vegetables. It was called Vuelve A La Vida. When we got home my wife went on a mission to recreate the seafood cocktail we'd had there and, after a few attempts, perfected it. And to this day, when summer comes around we cool down with Corona Con Hielo y Vuelva A La Vida.
I think vodka goes better with orange juice, and Blue Moon goes better in the trash.
I'm glad for you.
I hold no allegiance to beer. To me it's just a form of adult soda or pop. I now consider it a waste of time and the long way home to drink the amount of beer needed to get a good buzz....
Btw,all those who drink beer out of a can (if any here) are not qualified to comment on the finer merits of beer.
In "the olde days" beer was easy to make and cheap. Not a "noble libation" but a drink of the common and lower classes.....
But all those who like it, by all means enjoy....
I gotta go along with all the above. Except I do on rare occasion drink beer from a can... only when I'm too lazy to pour it into a glass, but I prefer bottles. Actually I prefer draft the most but don't have it at home.
Give me a good quality tequila or any bourbon. Even the cheap stuff. Kentucky Ten High is $8-something a liter here...
You are quite wrong. There is nothing wrong with canned beer. Modern canning methods render canned beer just as flavorful as bottled beer. In fact it is superior at keeping beer's enemy, light, at bay and it chills it quicker.
They key to drinking beer from a can is this^^^. Pour the beer from the can into a glass.
I work at a store that has 1000 single beers on hand. I know beer fairly well (though I don't have time to drink all of them), nor do I drink to get drunk. I like the flavors and I don't like to drink soda.
Many craft beers are now coming in cans. It does NOT effect the taste.
It's easier to recycle. You get money back. They can fit more cans into a truck than bottles, so it has a lower carbon footprint. Can's are smaller so we can get more varieties on the shelves, etc...
Bottled beer is a snob thing, nothing more. Anyone who enjoys the merits of beer drinks out of a proper glass whether the beer came in can or bottle or keg anyway.
Also, not all beer is 'low class' and 'easy to make'. Many beers are quite complex and time consuming to make. Easy to make wrong, hard to make right. But sure, Bud, Miller, Cooors, especially the lite beers... They are made quickly from cheap ingredients and made to be as flavourless as possible so people can swallow them in mass and get shitfaced.
People can get pretty snobbish about American style lagers like Budweiser, Miller and Coors, but there is nothing wrong with these beers. They are not easy to make and use fine ingredients. They are just very popular and are well marketed, so people believe that they must be inferior. They are also usually the starting point for many beer drinkers and many never expand their palate beyond them.
American style lagers are but a shade on the spectrum of beers and ales and can be quite crisp and refreshing.
Boilermakers are good. Red Stripe (find one that isn't skunky) and Jim Beam is pretty good. I forget what it's called, but there's a cocktail that's basically a Whiskey Sour with beer in it.
Then, there's the Guinness Float. Mmmmm.
Then, there's the Guinness Float. Mmmmm.
I'm not so sure about fine ingredients. Budweiser doesn't even use a consistent recipe, they find whatever grain is cheapest and use that. It's often made of rice and corn. That doesn't make it bad mind you, but they're not exactly stringent with their craft.
What about the ol' Irish Car Bomb? I've never had one but they seem popular.
Too danged expensive...
Too danged expensive...
No I'm not. Beer out of a can sucks and is distinctly different than beer from a bottle. Beer out of a can is the lowest form of beer there is.
You can pour it into a glass but it still tastes like what it is......sucky canned beer.
Get off my lawn.
