St Paddy's Day Blond Champagne Style

With the excess of green beverages today (food colouring business must be good) sometimes it is nice to expand your horizons of St Paddy's day drinks. Enter, a Black Velvet. The Black Velvet was created in 1861 after the death of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert the British isles were in mourning. Champagne was very much in vogue at the time but is was seen as disrespectful to be drinking the celebratory drink at the time, so at the Brook's Club in London the Balck Velevet was created by mixing champagne with Guinness.

It's a very simple drink to make, first fill your champagne flute halfway with your favourite bubbly, then with an equal amount of Guinness simply pour into your flute over a reversed spoon-this allows the Guiness to gently pour in leaving with the classic Guinness froth on top.

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