Guinness Black Velvet

This innovative cocktail combines Guinness and champagne.
Black Velvet

Ingredients

  • 1.75oz

    Guinness

  • 2.5oz

    Champagne

0 units of alcohol per serve

Equipment

  • 1

    Champagne flute

  • 1

    Bar Spoon

Serves:
1

Method

  • Preparation
    1. Pour the Guinness Stout into a chilled Champagne flute.
    2. Add chilled Champagne and stir gently.
  • Alcohol Content

    Alcohol content:

    10.8 g per serve

Interesting fact

When cider or perry is used in place of champagne, it is sometimes known as a Poor Man's Black Velvet.

History of the drink

This drink is often mistakenly attributed to a bartender of Brooks's Club in London in 1861 to mourn the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Prince Consort. However, its roots may have been a German cocktail known as "Menschenfreund" from the 1830's (meaning philanthropist). "Champagne Velvet" is the name of the cocktail that first appears in Harry Johnson's 1888 New And Improved Bartender's Manual.