depends on age
you want to go a little ahead of where she's at since it suggests a bit of sophistication and is a turn on.
BOYS, (that includes college dudes) drink beer and your common cheap hard liquor, like JD, tequila etc (disclosure: I love expensive tequilas, cognacs and canadian and irish whiskeys -- for some reason I can't take rye).
If you're at a nice ****tail lounge in a good sports jacket, no beer! -- she wants to see you with a man's drink, something in a rocks glass, nothing collegy and gimmicky like <insert silly name of latest fad drink here>, and definitely nothing with umbrellas or blended (those are chick drinks, if you have to ask...) She wants to see sophistication and class, like you've stepped beyond the frat kegger slug-fest.
She'll accept you drinking beer in the right situations - don't worry, ok?, but wants to see you acting like a man and drinking basic, uncomplicated hard liquor in other situations.
As for her -- they're not so big on beer, especially the older they get. Red wine is to women what beer is to guys. Anything will do - spend $10+ for your basic table wine, more if you can afford it or she's developed a palate. Shiraz is getting popular because women tend to like the round fruity flavor. Cabs and merlots will never lose you points.
You really want to get her giddy and make it special: champagne. She'll go for it over wine or beer the way she'll go for a guy in a sports jacket over some hip-hop wannabe getup. Problem is - you probably have to have some too (I have to slam the first glass like a shot and then I'm good with champagne for the rest of the evening, otherwise I gag on it)
Avoid beer unless she's very young and hasn't formed any opinions (that is - she's still somewhere in highschool developmentally). She'll like red wine. She'll love champagne but you need to make the event a bit more special (pizza and a movie isn't a champagne venue, right? - or maybe that's a killer combo if you have the right attitude and a playful sense of humor) Tequila etc. are college stuff - if you're there, fine. If you're older, it's only fine if you're blue-collar and tequila is your idea of fancy.
Mid and high end vodkas are good. Same with gins and scotch if she's a drinker and appreciates those.
