Huggy Bear
This hardly qualifies as a recipe. It’s more like another way to drink stout. However, as the anecdote testifies, we can get still it wrong.
You get the calming effect of a deep draught of black beer followed by a musky, awakening smell of coffee in the back of your nose.
Stout can fill you up. Oddly, I can drink a few of these, in a row.
Huggy Bear envelopes you like thick, cosy, fur then shoves you onto the dance floor to embarrass your kids.
Recipients: Guests with mature palates
Type: Made in glass
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Bloody Michelle dwells in a delicious no man’s land. She is more rounded and mellow than a michelada and less thickly rich than a classic bloody mary. Okay, her country is less like no man’s land and more like everyone’s paradise.
Recipients: Friends who are squeamish about bloody maries due to their variable intensity and viscosity.
Type: Made in the glass, interactive.
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This goes down easily. I suggest serving it at the start of your event and not all night.
Confession: I am unashamedly borrowing the basis of this from Nigella Lawson. I’m pretty sure she didn’t invent it, so I think it’s okay.
Recipients: Those about to party hard, at a party at which you need to break the ice, fast.
Type: Jug
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