Cool Cocktails For Cold Evenings
By: Marika Josephson
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 10:17pm

Ingredients




Coffee stout

Oatmeal stout

Hazelnut liqueur

Vanilla vodka

Cream

Preparation

1 For Black Knight 2 Pour 2 parts coffee stout and 1 part vodka simultaneously into a snifter or goblet over ice. 3 For White Knight 4 Pour 2 parts coffee stout, 1 part vanilla vodka, 1 light part hazelnut liqueur, and 1/2 part cream into a cocktail shaker with ice. Swish contents gently and pour into goblet with ice. 5 For Original Sin 6 Pour 2 parts oatmeal stout and 1 part hazelnut liqueur simultaneously over ice. Add cream, if desired.

About


Walked to the lake this afternoon. Frigid. This photo is from our first big snowfall but, since it never even got to freezing today, it felt about as cold as it was when I took this picture.
We’re only slowly emerging from the deep Robert Frost-time of winter.
“Between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year.”
These cocktails are inspired by the classic cocktail pair named after the frozen north: the Black and White Russian. The twist is that they utilize beer. Fortunately, it’s stout–a beer that is a welcome warm-up this time of year. The prickly carbonation and the oatmeal and coffee undertones help take the sting off that winter walk.
Cheers.