Black Velvet (nb)

[Ohdrat]

The Cocktail... I have an invite to a cocktail party / debacle and it brought to mind a few seshes I had on Black Velvet... now as I remember this was mostly composed of champagne and guinness with a measure of vodka and Tia Maria..... however checking on the innnernet that most recipes only call for the champagne and guinness and only one has the measure of vodka... do any of you Fray Bentos Gourmets know whether the version I seem to remember is / was the genuine article or whether the purests will specify only Guinness and Champagne?

NB despite the potency of the Black Velvet I can remember the barman mixing them!

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[kds]

For us working class lads it was always guinness and cider - Oh - and a half of mild for the girlfriend.
Ken

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[Mike21]

Vodka and Tia Maria if I remember correctly is a Black Russian

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[alant]

Or a Brown Ale + Cider, this was called a Velvet Lady.

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[BrendanS]

The authentic Black Velvet is def just Stout (Guiness) and champagne

you can read the history of it here:
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.winexwired.com/3point6/ss36.htm>http://www.winexwired.com/3point6/ss36.htm</A>

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[ditchcrawler]

When I played rugby we had a club called the Beavers to which admission was obtained by drinking 10 pints of black velvet(BV) between the end of the match on a saturday afternoon & close of the bar Sat night/Sun morning.In our case it was cider & Guiness although we allowed stout if we ran out of Guiness.You were allowed to continue if you threw up but with the penalty of some extra pints depending on how many you had drunk at the time of uplifting.

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[Ohdrat]

We used to call any beer / cider mix Snake Bite... for obvious reasons...

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[Gunfleet]

Any minute now you are going to break into the Duke of Bayswater!

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[Ohdrat]

mmm think I might try it with either

or perhaps

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[Clive_Rigden]

Do you know, the last time this beer was mentioned on the forum, i e-mailed the brewery asking them to let me know if and where I could obtain Dark Island and Dragonshead in or around my neck of the woods.

To date, nothing heard . . .

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[Ohdrat]

oh dear that's a bit sad.. specially as I can pick up either in my local Safetescoway

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[Clive_Rigden]

Oh really? I don't normally go into supermarkets (except when ashore at strange ports) but will make a special foray in this regard.

Thank ye ma'am /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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