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An All Irish Black Velvet

12/28/2014

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Snakebite with Guinness and Magners ciderBlack Velvet with Magners and Guinness
Lucas emailed us recently to say he was very disappointed. He had just purchased “the perfect black and tan tool” and told us that it didn’t work at all. His family was a big fan of Black Velvets (Guinness over cider) and the Guinness was immediately floating to the bottom.  He further said that any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I emailed Lucas back straight away as this was a beer layering emergency!  I told him that two things might be happening.  One was that he may be using Guinness bottles. Guinness in bottles layer well as a top layer but not as good as the Guinness cans. Two, if the Guinness is dropping straight down into the cider, it probably meant that the cider is less dense than the Guinness.  If he tried pouring the cider on top of the Guinness with the tool, it may layer in top.  (This would be unusual as all the snake bites we've tried had the cider on the bottom.)

His reply confirmed that he was using bottled Guinness and that he would try the cans. For the cider he was using Magners Irish Cider.

I had never tried Magners before so I bought some 'research samples' at a local beer & wine store.  To the side is a picture of the resulting black velvet layered beer drink.  It layered well.

Above are come other layered cider & beer combinations we had tried before.

2 Comments
ItsAdam
12/9/2015 02:24:26 pm

Sorry, you appear to be mistaken.

A Snake Bite is 1/2 Lager and 1/2 Cider.

Usually people would order a Snake Bite & Black.

What the above is 1/2 Stout/Guiness and 1/2 of Cider is known as Black Velvet.

Although I'd refer to it as the poor mans Black Velvet as originally it was Champagne and Guiness.

Source, working in several pubs and nightclubs and then becoming a bar and restaurant manager at a Marriott Hotel.

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John
12/9/2015 07:37:02 pm

Adam is absolutely correct. We changed the references from Snakebite to Black Velvet

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