>Beer for me has an aftertaste that I find somewhat bitter. The gasthaus I went to most served beer with cola. That cut the aftertaste and sweetened it more to my taste. I once ordered it state-side and got the strangest looks. Haven't done that since although I still make that combination at home.

While at college we had a killing combination - hit the local supermarket and buy a beer and 0.1 l of cognac (which I still don't know how you pronounce here, and wasn't called that way anyway, because it's a copyrighted name - our local variant was named "vinjak", and would have been spelled vignac had it been written in French). That was the cheapest way to get yourself stiff for the evening.

My roommate once ordered it for himself, and the waiter kept asking "but who is the vinjak for?" "Me." "Then who is the beer for?" "Me." "So what will you do with that?" "Drink them, of course". Somewhere around the third round of questions the waiter realized he was acting stupid, so he finally left the drinks on the table and left... for a good, half-hidden, watchpost, from where he observed my roommate.

And, BTW, we called that "concrete"... because it was a way to pave your guts. Then we went silly and started inventing names like "cobblestone" for the beer+brandy or beer+tequila combination, or "asphalt" for beer+vodka.