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Mixed drink. Served. Neat: undiluted and without ice. Standard drinkware. Pint glass. Commonly used ingredients. Pale ale or lager and stout or porter. A black and tan is a beer cocktail made by layering a pale beer (usually pale ale) and a dark beer (usually stout). In Ireland, the drink is called a half and half.
Black and Tans. A member of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC in Dublin, smoking and carrying a Lewis gun, February 1921. The Black and Tans (Irish: Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence. [1][2] Recruitment began in Great Britain in January 1920 ...
While the name for the drink stuck due to its black and tan colors, the Irish refer to it as a half-and-half instead. So, if you order one—especially on that side of the Atlantic—make an ...
The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1][2] by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and ...
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, or "special reserve constables" (mainly former World War I army soldiers), recruited in Great Britain and sent to Ireland from 1920, to reinforce the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC ...
In Canada and the United States, Black and Tan refers to Guinness and a lager or ale that will support the Guinness, most commonly Bass Ale, although some Irish-themed bars shun the term for its association with the Royal Irish Constabulary's "Black and Tans" force. A Half and Half is Guinness and Harp.
However, the cider version is usually referred to as a poor-man's black velvet everywhere, including in the U.K. and Ireland. [6] [8] In Germany, a version of the drink made with Schwarzbier (a dark lager) and served in a beer stein or beer mug is called a "Bismarck" after the chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who supposedly drank it by the gallon.