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Guinness Black Velvet

This innovative cocktail combines Guinness and champagne.

Black Velvet
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Serves:

1

Ingredients

1.75oz  Guinness

2.5oz Champagne

Equipment

1  Champagne flute

1  Bar Spoon

method

  1. Pour the Guinness Stout into a chilled Champagne flute.

  2. Add chilled Champagne and stir gently.

Alcohol content:

10.8 g per serve

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.

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