Foodie Fridays: Mimosa Alternatives Part 2

Yesterday, we talked about mimosa alternatives, and I gave you the recipe for a Pretty Woman. Here’s a second champagne cocktail recipe.




Black Velvet



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Recipe type: cocktail
Prep time: 5 mins
Total time: 5 mins
Serves: 2
Apparently invented in 1861 by a bartender at the Brooks’s Club in London, to mourn the death of Queen Victoria’s husband, this one sounds questionable, but is actually surprisingly delicious. Here goes:

Ingredients

6 ounces stout beer, such as Guinness
6 ounces champagne or sparkling wine.



Instructions


Pour stout into two champagne flutes. Gently top with champagne or sparkling wine. The gentler the pour, the more separated the layers will be; a perfect Black Velvet shows a clean line between the two liquids in the glass. Some bartenders prepare this cocktail by pouring the champagne gently over a spoon turned upside down over the glass, to ensure that it runs gently down the inside wall of the glass.





Notes

Want to make a girlier version? Try a Pink & Black by substituting pink champagne or Rosa Regale for the regular champagne.

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