Guinness Beer Specialty Drinks

Black and Tan - Guinness and Bass. Proper way to serve? With careful pouring the Guinness settles on the top and the Bass settles to the bottom providing a two-tiered, layered effect.

Half and Half) - When a black and tan is served with a pale lager like Harp's. Served as a two-tiered, layered effect like above.

Black Velvet - Guinness and Champagne in equal amounts.

Crown Float AKA Poor Man's Black Velvet (and incorrectly as a Snake Bite) - Guinness and Cider in equal quantities.

Irish Car Bomb - A half/half shot of Irish Cream and Irish Whiskey dropped into a half a pint glass of Guinness. NOT appropriate to order when in Ireland.

Belgian Waffle (AKA Black and Blue, a Black and White, or Black Moon. - similar to a Black and Tan, only using Blue Moon White Belgian Ale in place of the Bass.


Guinness and Black - A pint of Guinness with introduction od a dash of Blackcurrent cordial. This will turn the head of the Guinness to purple.

"Gin"ness - A pint of Guinness with a shot of gin.

Irish Soda Pop - Guinness with Mountain Dew in equal portions.

Guinness Punch - Guinness stout mixed with condensed milk, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Guinness Float - Guinness stout with a scoop of vanilla or coffee ice cream floating in it. One may opt for chocolate or peanut butter ice cream as well.

This post has been edited by thedelihaus on April 09, 2007 02:52 pm