Black Russian

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This drink is designated as an IBA Official Cocktail
Black Russian
A Black Russian cocktail
Type:	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume:	Vodka
Served:	"On the rocks"; poured over ice
Standard drinkware:	Old fashioned glass
IBA specified ingredients^†:	Vodka Coffee liqueur
Preparation:	Pour the ingredients into the old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
^†Black Russian recipe at International Bartenders Association

This article is about the alcoholic beverage. For the cigarette, please see Sobranie (cigarette)

For Blacks in Russia, see African diaspora#Russia.

The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur (usually two parts vodka to one part coffee liqueur). It is traditionally poured over crushed ice in an old-fashioned glass.

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to the Belgian barman Gustave Tops, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.^{[citation needed]} The cocktail owes its name to the dark period of the Cold War with the Soviet Union^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Variations

A variation is the Tall Black Russian, prepared in the same manner as a Black Russian, except that it is served in a taller glass and topped up with Cola.