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<span style="font-weight: bold">Guinness Shandy</span>
The practice of drinking Guinness with lemonade is rumoured to have started with the New Zealand rugby team, during a British tour. After a game, they ordered Guinness and lemonade (in mistake for bitter shandy), and found it extremely refreshing.
Some say this is how the became known as the All Blacks, but it seems most unlikely.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Top Hat</span>
A popular drink in the '30s was Guinness and ginger beer. It celebrated the famous dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The black-and-white Guinness symbolises Fred Astaire's top hat and tails, and ginger beer Ginger Rogers.
('Top Hat' was also perhaps their most successful film performance together.)
<span style="font-weight: bold">Trojan Horse</span>
It looks like Guinness from the outside, but if you're a dedicated Guinness drinker, the taste in there may take you by surprise. Because this is Guinness mixed with cola!
If the cola is ice-cold, it makes a refreshing Summer's drink, and creates some unusual sensations in your mouth.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Calcutta Cup</span>
Guinness mixed with Indian Tonic Water. In the days of the Empire, the British in India used to add tonic water to their Guinness. (The quinine in the tonic was supposed to be protection against malaria.)
The drink was named after the Calcutta Cup, which in those days was a coveted polo trophy.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Red Head</span>
Guinness and tomato juice. Like that other red head, Scarlett O'Hara of 'Gone With The Wind' fame, it's a tantalising, intriguing and quite unpredictable mixture. It takes all the smooth charm of the tomato to tame the proud, independent taste of the Guinness. And even then it never quite succeeds!
<span style="font-weight: bold">Two-lane Blacktop</span>
Guinness with American Dry Ginger. 'Two-lane Blacktop' is the American slang for a road. Possibly the drink was given this name because the only way to take it is at high speed....
<span style="font-weight: bold">Snake Bite</span>
Guinness and cider. So called after an unusual event which took place in the last century. Apparently, the apple crop in the West Country was devastated by a plague of hungry snakes, which led to grave shortages. To solve this problem, the locals used Guinness to boost their meagre cider rations. To their delight, they found that the dry, lively taste of the Guinness made the ideal partner for the sweet taste of their 'usual'.
So nowadays, when they drink cider in the West Country, they often add a Guinness.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Wasp Sting</span>
Guinness mixed with orange juice (preferably freshly-squeezed and chilled). So called because the colours of Guinness and orange juice are the same as a wasp's. Incidentally, black and yellow are danger signals in nature, and after tasting this drink we can understand why....
<span style="font-weight: bold">Midnight</span>
Guinness with a dash of port. Believed to originate from the Royal Flying Corps.
It seems that after dinner, some of the officers took to drinking Guinness instead of port. The Guinness decanter was passed anti-clockwise round the table, while the port, as usual, was passed round clockwise. Once, the two decanters happened to meet at the head of the table (Guinness at twelve o'clock!). The officer in that position absent-mindedly poured both drinks into his glass, and found the result quite enjoyable.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Guinness and Lime</span>
A new variation of the popular 'lager and lime'. The effect, however, is quite different. The strong, distinctive taste of a bottle of Guinness dominates the lime, which merely adds a touch of smoothness to the beer.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Sensible Shoes</span>
Guinness laced with brown ale. 'Sensible Shoes' refers to the colour of the two drinks (black and brown). The strong, dry taste of Guinness keeps in perfect step with the rather sweeter taste of the brown ale. An excellent drink when you want to sit down in the pub and take the weight off your feet.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Tumbril</span>
Guinness, port, brandy and champagne....in one glass! This terrifying drink is supposed to be a cure for hangovers, but we take no responsibility for the consequences if you should try it. It is called a Tumbril because you only get into it if you feel like death.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Black 'n' Black</span>
Guinness and blackcurrant. A lot of women have taken to adding blackcurrant to their drinks, and our black beer is no exception. They find the taste of the blackcurrant makes Guinness not just something they like to be seen with, but something they enjoy drinking, too.
The practice of drinking Guinness with lemonade is rumoured to have started with the New Zealand rugby team, during a British tour. After a game, they ordered Guinness and lemonade (in mistake for bitter shandy), and found it extremely refreshing.
Some say this is how the became known as the All Blacks, but it seems most unlikely.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Top Hat</span>
A popular drink in the '30s was Guinness and ginger beer. It celebrated the famous dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The black-and-white Guinness symbolises Fred Astaire's top hat and tails, and ginger beer Ginger Rogers.
('Top Hat' was also perhaps their most successful film performance together.)
<span style="font-weight: bold">Trojan Horse</span>
It looks like Guinness from the outside, but if you're a dedicated Guinness drinker, the taste in there may take you by surprise. Because this is Guinness mixed with cola!
If the cola is ice-cold, it makes a refreshing Summer's drink, and creates some unusual sensations in your mouth.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Calcutta Cup</span>
Guinness mixed with Indian Tonic Water. In the days of the Empire, the British in India used to add tonic water to their Guinness. (The quinine in the tonic was supposed to be protection against malaria.)
The drink was named after the Calcutta Cup, which in those days was a coveted polo trophy.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Red Head</span>
Guinness and tomato juice. Like that other red head, Scarlett O'Hara of 'Gone With The Wind' fame, it's a tantalising, intriguing and quite unpredictable mixture. It takes all the smooth charm of the tomato to tame the proud, independent taste of the Guinness. And even then it never quite succeeds!
<span style="font-weight: bold">Two-lane Blacktop</span>
Guinness with American Dry Ginger. 'Two-lane Blacktop' is the American slang for a road. Possibly the drink was given this name because the only way to take it is at high speed....
<span style="font-weight: bold">Snake Bite</span>
Guinness and cider. So called after an unusual event which took place in the last century. Apparently, the apple crop in the West Country was devastated by a plague of hungry snakes, which led to grave shortages. To solve this problem, the locals used Guinness to boost their meagre cider rations. To their delight, they found that the dry, lively taste of the Guinness made the ideal partner for the sweet taste of their 'usual'.
So nowadays, when they drink cider in the West Country, they often add a Guinness.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Wasp Sting</span>
Guinness mixed with orange juice (preferably freshly-squeezed and chilled). So called because the colours of Guinness and orange juice are the same as a wasp's. Incidentally, black and yellow are danger signals in nature, and after tasting this drink we can understand why....
<span style="font-weight: bold">Midnight</span>
Guinness with a dash of port. Believed to originate from the Royal Flying Corps.
It seems that after dinner, some of the officers took to drinking Guinness instead of port. The Guinness decanter was passed anti-clockwise round the table, while the port, as usual, was passed round clockwise. Once, the two decanters happened to meet at the head of the table (Guinness at twelve o'clock!). The officer in that position absent-mindedly poured both drinks into his glass, and found the result quite enjoyable.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Guinness and Lime</span>
A new variation of the popular 'lager and lime'. The effect, however, is quite different. The strong, distinctive taste of a bottle of Guinness dominates the lime, which merely adds a touch of smoothness to the beer.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Sensible Shoes</span>
Guinness laced with brown ale. 'Sensible Shoes' refers to the colour of the two drinks (black and brown). The strong, dry taste of Guinness keeps in perfect step with the rather sweeter taste of the brown ale. An excellent drink when you want to sit down in the pub and take the weight off your feet.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Tumbril</span>
Guinness, port, brandy and champagne....in one glass! This terrifying drink is supposed to be a cure for hangovers, but we take no responsibility for the consequences if you should try it. It is called a Tumbril because you only get into it if you feel like death.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Black 'n' Black</span>
Guinness and blackcurrant. A lot of women have taken to adding blackcurrant to their drinks, and our black beer is no exception. They find the taste of the blackcurrant makes Guinness not just something they like to be seen with, but something they enjoy drinking, too.