The Police Gazette Bartenders Guide by Richard K. Fox (1888, p.12) — 1888 Ale and Ale / Black and Tan
| 0.5 part | Porter — porter | base |
| 0.5 part | ale — ale | other |
| 0.5 part | new ale — new ale | other |
| 0.5 part | old ale — old ale | other |
- Combine half porter and half ale, or in American practice half old ale and half new ale.
- Ask the customer how he desires it.
- Summary
- A direct beer-mixture service that preserves customer-choice and transatlantic variation in one entry.
This is useful because it shows mixed beer service still alive and already regionally translated.
The key feature is the proportion and the explicit allowance for customer preference.
Compared with Velvet, this stays entirely in the beer world but carries the same mixed-service logic.