So why not celebrate the first St Patrick’s Day of the new decade in style by trying a Guinness Black Velvet cocktail or impress your mates down the pub with some St Patrick’s Day facts & stats, plus tips on how to enjoy the perfect pint of Guinness ...
1 - Black Velvet Recipe and History
Ingredients:
- ½ Flute of Champagne
-
½ Flute of GUINNESS®
- Extra Stout
Serves 1 (1.3 units)
GUINNESS mixed fifty fifty with Champagne. Legend has it that this famous drink was invented in 1861 at Brook’s Club in London. Prince Albert had died, everyone was in mourning, and the story goes that the steward at the club, overcome with the emotion of the occasion, ordered that even the champagne should be put into mourning, and proceeded to mix it with GUINNESS. The taste was so delicious, Black Velvet became extremely popular.
2. Anna Brown’s Beef, Onion & Guinness Pie
For this recipe be sure to use shin beef as it is well suited to the long slow cooking process. Stewing steak tends to disintegrate, as opposed to shin beef which has gelatinous fibres running through it.
- 1.5Kg Shin Beef cut into 2” cubes
- 2 medium onions peeled and sliced onions
- 1 tablespoon flour seasoned with salt and pepper
- 1 pt Guinness
-
½ pt beef stock
- 1 pack ready roll puff pastry
Method:
Place the cubed shin beef and the onion in a casserole dish and coat with the seasoned flour. Pour in the Guinness and the stock and bring to simmer gently on the hob. Cover with a tightly fitting lid and place in an oven preheated to 140 Celsius for at least 2 ½ hours until beef is tender.
Cook pastry as per the pack instructions, cut into individual portions about 5” by 5” square. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes and spring greens.
3. How to drink the perfect pint of GUINNESS®
This St. Patrick’s Day, when you are raising a pint of GUINNESS with friends to say cheers to the Irish, be sure to follow Master Brewer, Fergal Murray’s guide to the perfect way to enjoy a pint of the ‘black stuff’:
- Hold the glass with the Guinness harp facing you and your thumb over the harp
- Never look down. Look at the horizon and bring the glass to your mouth, not your mouth to the glass
- Take a sip, breaking the seal of the head of your pint
- Enjoy the Guinness cream moustache left on the top of your lip
- Each time you take a drink from the pint, hold the glass in the same position and repeat above, letting the liquid flow underneath the head of the pint
Expect to experience the malty sweetness at the front of your mouth, the roasted flavour at the side and the distinctive Guinness bitterness at the back
St Pat’s facts
• Over 5 million pints of Guinness are sold in the UK each year on St.
Patrick’s Day
• Over 13 million pints of Guinness are raised on St. Patrick’s Day
across the globe, which brings more than 150 pints to life every second
• Guinness has been marking St. Patrick’s Day, one of the liveliest
calendar celebrations for over 15 years
• Last year, Guinness celebrated 250 years since the signing of the
9,000 year lease at St. James’s Gate brewery in Dublin
• The St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin produces 4 million pints of
Guinness every day
• Today, Guinness is popular around the world and sold in more than 150
countries
• Gas bubbles travel downwards, instead of upwards, bringing a pint of
Guinness to life with its famous surge and settle motion
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