Black and Tans are great beer drinks, but how do you correctly pour them? Here are the ingredients and the process that I show in the video:
Ingredients:
- 1 Bass Ale
- 1 Guinness
- Metal Spoon (A soup spoon works best, but you don’t need one)
- Pint Glass
Procedure:
- Bend the spoon so that it the head can be lowered down into the pint glass. If you pour the beer over a non-bent spoon, it will run back down the handle and drop onto your table – not good. Bending it also allows you to provide a gentler pour since the spoon will be closer to the Bass.
- Pour the Bass into the glass so that it fills up halfway or a little more. Pour it faster than usual since you want a big head that will provide a nice cushion for the Guinness to sit on.
- Lower the spoon into the glass just above the Bass and against the side of the glass. Very slowly pour the Guinness over backside of the spoon so that it trickles over the side, hitting the glass on the way down.
- Finish pouring the Guinness until the beer reaches the top, then give it a few seconds to settle.
That’s it! Now it’s your turn.
Have you ever made a black and tan?
p.s. You may have noticed the other beers I had on the table. My videos have been in desperate need of color, so to try something new I decided to display some of the recent craft beers that I’ve had. This is to 1) liven up the set and 2) hopefully display some beers that people will recognize. So if you’ve had one of the ones that I display, go ahead and mention it in the comments. We’ll see how this idea works.
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Drink the Thing!!!!
I love it man….Keep it up!!!!
That’s pretty cool, always liked little beer tricks like that. I’ve heard people using Blue Moon and Guinness for a ‘Black and Blue’. Also, I’m working on bending the spoon with my mind like The Amazing Kreskin does, but its a good tip not to bend too many of them!
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Thanks for the demo. I never did it with a spoon before but I never got good head like that either.
something new, something kinkie.
@Scott –
The “black and blue” is a great variation too. I had one for the first time in Capitva Island, FL and it was one of the best “sitting on a beach listening to a lounge singer” beers I could imagine.
@Billy –
Great video. I never knew how to get that good separation. I’ll definitely be trying that out this weekend.
@Tim Thanks buddy. I could only find 12 packs of Bass and 6 packs of Guinness so I was drinking B&T’s for almost a week lol.
@Scott I’ll have to give the black and blue a try that sounds like a good one. Keep working on the mind tricks. If they work out we are doing a video together.
@Jimmie Kinkie for sure. If you really want to spice it up check out this thing, a black and tan turtle spoon: http://bit.ly/c1Dsml
@Dave Glad you like it. Your story of the warm beach drinking beer took me on a nice day dream. Then I looked outside at this 20 degree winter day and cursed.
Guinness even sells a pour spoon for about $10. Gotta say this is the best and cheapest method to make a good black and tan.
and 3 man points for bending silverware!
Went to a bar last night called the Flying Saucer – 200+ craft beers on tap! I had an IPA and an Amber from Bell’s Brewery (Kalamazoo, MI) and they were amazing. When you come visit we’re definitely going there… Oh, and if you try 200 different beers, you get your name on a plate/saucer that they put up on the wall. I’m thinkin we can do that in a weekend, what do u think?
If you have a roommate that gets angry over bent spoons… KICK THEM OUT!!! Black and tan haters.
There are quite a few different layering spoons out there. Guinness makes one (of course), as does Bass (the ‘Brolly’), and Brutul’s LagerHead Turtle. All of them (like yours) require the slow pour method.
If you want to pour your Black and Tans quicker and easier, check out the Brewcrafter beer layering spoon (http://www.jmbbrewcraft.com/about/brewcrafter-video/). I think you’ll like it better than the others.
We have a sports bar here that has kind of a selection of Guiness+ beers. My fav that I’ve tried so far was a Chocolate Covered Cherry, that’s a Samuel Adams cherry wheat with a Guiness. Delicious dessert.
Will this work with Guinness stout or draught bottles? Or does the can make a difference?
It should work with the bottles as well.