Guinness Black Velvet
This innovative cocktail combines Guinness and champagne.
Serves:
1
Ingredients
1.75oz Guinness
2.5oz Champagne
Equipment
1 Champagne flute
1 Bar Spoon
method
Pour the Guinness Stout into a chilled Champagne flute.
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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