British Snakebite Drink Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pint Beer
- 1/2 pint Cider, hard (Strongbow)
How to Make It
Mix or layer ingredients. Note - the mixture of beer and cider is so effective at making you drunk its illegal to serve Snakebite in pubs and bars in Britain!
Contributor
This drink recipe was submitted by one of our immensely powerful readers, Cil!
Comments on British Snakebite
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Jul 30th, 2017A pint of Chinese is half larger half bitter
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Jan 7th, 2017I prefer using the name: "Poor Man's Black and Tan" rather than the original title of "Snakebite" for a glass having its lower 1/2 holding hard cider and its upper level holding stout. "Snakebite" has, over time, seen it mean plural types of contents like vodka, etc.
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Jul 2nd, 2016Yeah I love a snakebite every now and then (reminds me of my college days) I'm enjoying one right now with a nice shrimp curry from my favourite takeaway.
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May 31st, 2016too much work for many barstaff to do it. Draught diesel(Guinness and Cider) even more so
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Apr 26th, 2016Snakebites are most definitely legal in the UK. Ive ordered a few in my time and most pubs just dont like to serve you it because you'll more than likely be sick absolutely everywhere lol
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Apr 7th, 2016A proper Snake Bite is a cocktail made with London Dry Gin and dry cider with ice
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Jan 7th, 2016Golden, is a half a bitter and half a lager in a pint glass. Chinese is a half a mild and half a bitter again in a pint glass.
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Oct 22nd, 2015I'm with Phil Mitchell on this one, usually the landlord argues that it makes the pint look bad. Some bar staff are happy to turn a blind eye if you buy a pint of one and half of the other and then mix it yourself...... As long as your not too rowdy. On a separate note ... Am I understanding some of these comment right, you can't buy less then a pint in pubs in London.
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Aug 12th, 201570's Manchester ...I/2 bitter & 1/2 cider..landlords would not want to serve it as it's cloudy & put punters off ..easy to neck it...all the p***heads drank it
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Jun 16th, 2015I feel I must intervene here if only to clarify an error that seems to be prevalent. Snakebite is half beer half cider, whereas snakebite with added blackcurrant juice is called Purple Nasty. That's all. Thank you & goodbye. I'm off for a Purple Nasty. x
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Apr 12th, 2015Double Vodka Jagerbomb - The only way to get drunk
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Feb 17th, 2015Every pub/club i have gone to that serves snakebites are always served with a dash of blackcurrant squash.
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Oct 30th, 2014Greetings, I am absolutely amazed that there is all this rubbish online about the illegality and impossibility of being served Snakebites or Snakebites in black (SIB)! I went to Uni (graduate scool)in Manchester and was *never* told that there was any difficulties in selling me one. There was also never any nonsense about mixing your own. Although, my first preference is for a good dark ale, if that wasn't available, a SIB was a reasonable second choice. I just wish that now I am currently residing in the US, it wasn't so impossible to find the ingredients and all the other treats I became accustomed to, on this side of the pond. Cheers!
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Oct 28th, 2014It's only illegal because they can't mix it themselves.
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Oct 4th, 2014Snakebite. Half a pint of lager plus half a pint of cider. Cheap, strong ingredients tend to make a better snakebite than better, more expensive ingredients. The addition of blackcurrant is a snakebite and black. It is not illegal to serve less than a pint of a branded lager or cider in the U.K, nor is it illegal to serve two different halfs in the same pint glass.
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