Okay technically this is a “beer cocktail” but it’s oh so good.
A Poor Man’s Black Velvet. Now a proper Black Velvet is Guinness and sparkling white wine. Which just sounds disgusting to me. But the poor man’s version starts with hard cider. I’m not sure why that doesn’t creep me out like the wine, but it sounds good from the start.
Smooth, tasty and refreshing. Plus, since it’s made with Guinness and requires a small bit of skill to do the float on top of the cider, I can retain my masculinity.
Plus, embracing the other side of my heritage, I made pretzels. From scratch. I’ve done this before, but have never gotten anything close to a satisfying pretzel shape. But… out of a dozen attempts, there was one that was worthy. That’s my boy there on the right!:
(and yes, I had resorted to making pretzel rolls since my mutant pretzels were annoying me)
