# Boilermaker recipe
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** liquor-alcohol, beer
**Created:** [July 4, 2024, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712 "2024-07-04T07:25:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/1 "2024-07-04T07:25:15Z")
Yeah, I know it is a beer and a whiskey.
_Which_ beer?
_Which_ whiskey?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/2 "2024-07-04T07:38:07Z")
Guinness and Jamisonās is how my Daddy did it.
Sometimes Jamie '08
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/3 "2024-07-04T07:50:31Z")
What about Bruichladdich X4 Quadrupled Whiskey (184 Proof) and Hair Of The Dog Dave?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/4 "2024-07-04T08:15:28Z")
Home brew and moonshine?
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/5 "2024-07-04T09:03:20Z")
Beer - whateverās on tap. Whiskey - itās a shame to waste good whiskey when you wonāt really taste its subtleties, but itās also a shame to drink bad whiskey, period. Iād use Tullamore Dew, my go-to mixer and casual drink.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/6 "2024-07-04T09:08:29Z")
When I drank them it was fairly cheap whiskey (lower shelf) in a glass of lower end tap beer.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/7 "2024-07-04T09:37:21Z")
Iām the same. Plain old Budweiser and a shot of Johnnie Walker Red Label.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/8 "2024-07-04T12:38:22Z")
Does the shot of whiskey have to be dropped into the beer for it to be a boilermaker, or can it be on the side?
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/9 "2024-07-04T13:02:33Z")
I donāt want to trigger that go-round, but dropping shot plus glass into beer is called a depth charge.
Cecil had a column on this years ago which I canāt locate at the moment. Iāll be back when found.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/10 "2024-07-04T13:14:18Z")
Poured in - **Boilermaker**.
Dropped in - **Depth Charge.**
On the side - **Chaser**.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/11 "2024-07-04T13:17:20Z")
Not on the side.
I never knew the shot glass drop in had a different name.
But the whiskey had to be in the beer to be a boilermaker.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/12 "2024-07-04T13:24:01Z")
Iām ba-ack:
> **[Boilermaker recipe: drop the shot glass in the beer?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341499/boilermaker-recipe-drop-the-shot-glass-in-the-beer#:~:text=Cecil-,adams,-Send%20questions%20to)**
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/13 "2024-07-04T13:35:02Z")
> [To further confuse matters, most bar guides list a ādepth chargeā as a weird confabulation of brandy, applejack, and grenadine, or, alternatively, gin, Pernod, and something called Kina Lillet. In short, who knows?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341499/boilermaker-recipe-drop-the-shot-glass-in-the-beer#:~:text=Cecil-,adams,-Send%20questions%20to)
So maybe the Depth Charge thing is not correct then.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/14 "2024-07-04T13:41:05Z")
Iāve always known it to properly be a whiskey with a beer chaser. Type of whiskey or beer doesnāt matter, but usually is bottom shelf stuff. I am familiar with the ādrop the whiskey inā variation, too, which very well may be more popular in the last few decades, but to me any of those ādrop the shot inā drinks are for college frat kids.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/15 "2024-07-04T13:45:41Z")
The whiskey in the beer is quite old, my Grandpa drank those for decades and he passed in 1978.
The shot glass drop in might have been newer, I canāt be sure I saw that until the mid to late 80s.
But a beer chaser is just a beer chaser. Not a boilermaker.
If we use wiki, there is no one answer to this.
> **[Boilermaker (beer cocktail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilermaker_(beer_cocktail))**
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> A boilermaker is either of two types of beer cocktail. In American terminology, the drink consists of a glass of beer mixed with a shot of whiskey.
> The drink originated in Butte, Montana, in the 1890s, and was originally called a Sean O'Farrell and was served only when miners ended their shifts. When the beer is served as a chaser, the drink is often called simply a shot and a beer.
> In England, the term boilermaker traditionally refers to a half pint of draught mild mixed with a half pint of bo...
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/16 "2024-07-04T13:46:31Z")
Sot!! š
Thanks for the Wiki item, a nice read with my Rice Krispies.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/17 "2024-07-04T13:57:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> _Which_ beer?
> _Which_ whiskey?
So in the old days when Dadās would bring home the Christmas gifts of Canadian Club, Seagramās VO or the like and drank crap like Miller, adding the mediocre at best Xmas whiskey to Miller in a tall glass was better than drinking either by itself.
In a bar, the tap beer might well be something like Schlitz or Piels and again, any cheap whiskey added to this still made for a fairly cheap strong drink to start the night.
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I guess what I am saying is donāt waste good stuff on a boiler maker. Use your crappiest whiskey and your low end beer. If I was to have one today, I would be a shot of Canadian Club\* in a glass of Yuengling Lager.
\* Came from my Dadās liquor cabinet. It is probably 40 years old.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/18 "2024-07-04T14:00:27Z")
I almost want to change my moniker to **A. Sean OāFarrell.**
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/19 "2024-07-04T14:01:00Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> But a beer chaser is just a beer chaser. Not a boilermaker.
Except that it isā¦at least one of the definitions. If you follow the Wikipedia links:
> [@](#):
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> Whether lager or ale, beer, it should be obvious, is the quintessential working manās drink. Thereās beer, followed closely by whiskey, and thereās the boilermaker, which is whiskey closely followed by beer.
[From here](https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/09/labor-day-drinking-a-history-of-proletarian-benders-and-a-guide-to-drinking-on-the-job.html)
Or [here, entitled "The History of the Boilermaker: Otherwise Known as a Shot and a Beer](https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/the-history-of-the-boilermaker-otherwise-known-as-a-shot-and-a-beer/):
> [@](#):
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> The first method is your most basic, and the purists would have you believe itās the classic: you drink the entire shot and then chase it with the beer. Itās that simple. However, as more high-end cocktail bars have also embraced the boilermaker, and thought more about the pairing of whiskey and beer, drinkers have taken to going back and forth between the two drinks, taking a sip of the shot and then a gulp of the beer, until each drink is finished.
And Cecils column, too.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boilermaker-recipe/1003712/20 "2024-07-04T14:03:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Yuengling Lager.
Are ye a Yinzer?
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