Drink Recipes - Black Velvet

A Black Velvet is made by filling a tall champagne flute halfway with chilled stout and floating the sparkling wine on top of the stout. The differing densities of the liquids cause them to remain largely in separate layers (as in a pousse-café). If cider or perry is used, the stout is instead floated on top.

The Black Velvet, also known as the Bismarck or the Velvet Hammer, is a beer cocktail made from stout beer (often Guinness) and white, sparkling wine, traditionally champagne. Cider or perry is sometimes used in place of the more expensive champagne; this mix is known as a "Poor Man's Black Velvet".

According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the Black Velvet was the favorite drink of Otto von Bismarck, who supposedly drank it by the gallon. In Germany, the drink often goes by his name. It was also the favorite drink of Jazz Age New York City mayor Jimmy Walker.

Whatever the top layer is, the effect is best achieved if it is poured over a spoon turned upside down over the top of the glass so that the liquid runs gently down the sides rather than splashing into the lower layer and mixing with it.

Cocktails with Beer

It's Party Time!... click on the links to find out more about how to get free drinks. Check out the Bars and Restaurants, Night Clubs, and Tiki Bars... and learn how to make drinks..! Full Liquor Bars, Free Beer, Cocktail Drinks, Frozen Daiquiris, 2 for 1 Margaritas, alcoholic drinks made with Rum, Vodka, brandy or cognac, Cachaça, gin, sake, tequila, whiskey (whisky) or bourbon, wine, sparkling wine, or port, Shots and shooters, Flaming cocktails, Mixers... Beers like Bud, (Budweiser) ,Corona, Heineken, Miller.... The best Bars, Restaurants, and Night Clubs..!

Do you Like to Party? Like Bars and Night Clubs? How would you like Free Drinks: Beer, Liquor, Cocktails, Daiquiris, 2 for 1 Margaritas, Cervezas ...? To find out how Click here NOW...!