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There's a political element to black and tans? I sort of assumed the name was because Guinness is black (okay, very dark brown) and Bass is tan.
Although I am perplexed by Yuengling Black and Tan which is just sort of brown and not mixy as far as I can see. Though yummy.
There's a political element to black and tans? I sort of assumed the name was because Guinness is black (okay, very dark brown) and Bass is tan.
Blacks and tans were the name of the English Army thugs used as enforcement during the Irish revolution of the early 20th century. (My mother may have raised me with a little republican bias.)
Although I am perplexed by Yuengling Black and Tan which is just sort of brown and not mixy as far as I can see. Though yummy.
technically, a black and tan is any drink that mixes stout and lager. A Black and Tan is when the bartender floats the Guinness on top of the Bass (or you can have a Half and Half, which is Guinness and Harp)
Blacks and tans were the name of the English Army thugs used as enforcement during the Irish revolution of the early 20th century.
Huh. I did not know that.
Next you'll be telling us there's a political element to Brownshirt Ale....
Did they have a rep for drinking Guinness and (edit, not ale) lager?
Clearly I am dimwitted about the beers, since I can't tell lager from ale. I do know what stout is, though. I think.
I do know what stout is, though. I think.
Hint: here is my handle, here is my spout.
Blacks and tans were the name of the English Army thugs used as enforcement during the Irish revolution of the early 20th century.
This.
I don't like the sound of mixing stout and lager. Wrongity wrong.
Heh. From Sue's link, the paramilitary Black and Tans were named after their funny pants, and because they resembled a pack of foxhounds.
Oddly, this:
This mixture gave rise to their nickname, the Black and Tans (in Irish, na Dúchrónaigh), from the name of a famous pack of foxhounds from Limerick, the Scarteen Black and Tans, whose colours were and are similar.
Is my main association with that name - well other than Black and Tan Coonhounds - or as the general term for that color of dog.