The Guinness Shandy and the Half and Half

To satisfy the insatiable Margaret et al., here’s not a bad way to start off. Recipes courtesy TheBar.com.

Mostly a Shandy is an ale with ginger ale or lemon-lime soda. But there’s no special reason to restrict it to ale.

Guinness Shandy
• .75 pint Guinness
• .25 pint lemon-lime soda

If you want to stick to your basic Shandy, and feel bound to Eire tomorrow or even tonight, mix half and half Harp and ginger ale.

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A black and tan also goes by the name Half and Half, when the components are all Irish.

Half & Half

• .5 pint Harp
• .5 pint Guinness
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Add Harp to pint glass
Add Guinness by pouring it over the back of a spoon

We find that you can now make great ones at home, thanks to the widget. We’d add: a big spoon, maybe a wooden spoon, one that best fits to the contours of your glass.