50 Best Rock Songs About Beer

Best Rock Tracks on Beer

There’s a certain type of track that hits when a beer shows up in the picture. Not a classy wine glass, not some craft cocktail, but the clink of a bottle or the crack of a can that cuts through whatever night you’re in. Rock has always had that space where beer lives, sloppy and unpretentious, from backyard jams to sticky dive bar sets. Some songs lean right into it, foam and all. Others circle the feeling without naming it, catching the haze, the stumble, the grin that comes out of nowhere. Either way, the beer energy comes through loud enough to feel real.

These aren’t smooth party anthems with perfect polish. They’re loud, they’re messy, sometimes rowdy in ways that don’t age well, sometimes nostalgic in a way that feels too heavy for the moment. But that’s the draw. A few of these tracks literally mention beer, while others might not go near the word at all yet still pour into the same glass. It’s in the tempo, in the off-key singalongs, in the guitar riffs that sound like they were made for someone spilling half a drink while air-guitaring. The overlap is obvious once you hear it, the same way certain pop, rock, country, and R&B songs accidentally end up fitting the mood of a late night with bottles piling up.

So when the playlist needs something sticky, a little reckless, and loud enough to carry over the sound of clinking cans, these picks slide in perfectly. They capture that sloppy freedom where the night doesn’t make sense but still works somehow. Here are the best rock songs on beer.

1. 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' by George Thorogood & The Destroyers

2. 'Have a Drink on Me' by AC/DC

3. 'Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers' by ZZ Top

4. 'Roadhouse Blues' by The Doors

5. 'I Drink Alone' by George Thorogood & The Destroyers

6. 'Cold Gin' by KISS

7. 'Whiskey in the Jar' by Thin Lizzy

8. 'Tubthumping' by Chumbawamba

9. 'Six Pack' by Black Flag

10. 'Snortin' Whiskey' by Pat Travers Band

11. 'Why Don't We Get Drunk' by Jimmy Buffett

12. 'Whiskey Rock-A-Roller' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

13. 'Drunken Lullabies' by Flogging Molly

14. 'Have Another Drink' by The Kinks

15. 'I Gotta Get Drunk' by The Little Willies

16. 'The Drinking Song' by Electric Angels

17. 'Beer' by Reel Big Fish

18. 'Nightrain' by Guns N' Roses

19. 'Poison Whiskey' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

20. 'Somebody Put Something in My Drink' by Ramones

21. 'Spill the Wine' by Eric Burdon and War

22. 'Alcohol' by The Kinks

23. 'Mas Tequila' by Sammy Hagar

24. 'I Wish You Were a Beer' by Cycle Sluts From Hell

25. 'Demon Alcohol' by Ozzy Osbourne

26. 'Lookin' Better Every Beer' by The Stray Cats

27. 'Cheap Beer' by FIDLAR

28. 'Beer for Breakfast' by The Replacements

29. 'I Only Drink Bud' by The Queers

30. 'Streams of Whiskey' by The Pogues

31. 'Plastic Cup Politics' by Less Than Jake

32. 'Take Your Whiskey Home' by Van Halen

33. 'I Ain't Drunk' by Albert Collins

34. 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' by The Doors

35. 'Hey Bartender' by The Blues Brothers

36. 'Whiskey on the Rocks' by AC/DC

37. 'Strange Brew' by Cream

38. 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' by Oasis

39. 'Drink' by Alestorm

40. 'Suicide Solution' by Ozzy Osbourne

41. 'Whiskey Man' by Molly Hatchet

42. 'The Blarney Stone' by Ween

43. 'Kiss Me, I'm Smashed' by Dropkick Murphys

44. 'Whiskey Bottle' by Uncle Tupelo

45. 'I Like Beer' by Tom T. Hall

46. 'Whiskey Drinkin' Woman' by Nazareth

47. 'Hit Me Like a Man' by The Pretty Reckless

48. 'The Night Pat Murphy Died' by Great Big Sea

49. 'Get Drunk' by The Misfits

50. 'Too Much Alcohol' by Rory Gallagher