Thursday, February 28, 2008

Irish Green Beer


Thomas Dalldorf, editor and publisher of Celebrator Beer News once told ,"The worst thing we've done about St. Paddy's Day is to put green food coloring in bad beer,”The Irish think we're absolutely foolish for doing that.”.

"St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland" was code for "converting the Pagans." After days passed, Beer plays a big role — a defining role — in how we celebrate St. Patrick's Day. A time-honored tradition on St. Patrick's Day is to drink green beer.

What is actually green beer, A Black and Tan is an authentic Irish drink. The Black and Tan is simply a pint glass with two different beers--ale and stout--layered in it. The ale goes in first; fill the glass just slightly less than half full with your favorite chilled Irish ale. Float the stout on top of the ale, rather than mixing the two layers. To do this, place a spoon over the glass, convex side up, and slowly pour the stout over the back of the spoon so it drizzles into the glass as gently as possible. Allow the stout to settle, and then make a toast and drink up!

It would be interesting to see, how Iresh make Green Beer,

# 16 ounces golden irish lager beer
# 3-6 drops green food coloring
Directions

1.In a chilled pint size glass pour beer add food coloring and mix inches Enjoy!
2 "SlĂ inte!" (pronounced "slawn-cha"),.
3. As the Irish would say. The traditional toast is the Irish equivalent of cheers and means "good health" in Gaelic.

St. Patrick's Day is still a once a year feel good about being Irish event. Some 34 million Americans claim some Irish ancestry and drinks Green Beer. Like it is for other ethnic groups, such a holiday can be a bonding event. And, one that can lessen ethnic frictions that occur the rest of the year.


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