11 Cocktails to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

March 14, 2023 Vacationer Staff

Are looking for a new cocktail to try for St. Patrick’s Day? Well, you can easily add green food coloring to a glass of beer, and you’re done, but if you’re looking for more creative cocktails for your St. Patrick’s Day gathering, then you might want to consider these tasty 11 cocktails.

Bailey’s Irish Floats

Ingredients
6 scoops of vanilla ice cream
2 cups of Guinness beer
½ cup Bailey’s Irish Cream
¼ cup chocolate syrup

Scoop three scoops of ice cream each into two tall glasses. Pour 1 cup Guinness and ¼ cup Baileys over each serving. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and serve immediately.

Irish Whiskey Maid

Ingredients
2 oz Jameson Black Barrel Whiskey
1 oz fresh lime juice
.75 oz simple syrup
3 slices Japanese cucumber, muddled
2 fresh mint leaves and cucumber slice for garnish

In a shaker glass, combine whiskey, lime juice, simple syrup, and cucumbers and muddle together. Add ice and shake vigorously. Fine strain into a rocks glass over a large ice block. Garnish with fresh cucumber and mint sprig through the middle.

Saint Casa

Ingredients
1.5 oz Casamigos Añejo
.5 oz Créme de Mure
.25 oz agave nectar
Top off with Guinness Beer

Combine all ingredients into a tin shaker except Guinness. Add ice. Shake vigorously for 8-10 seconds. Fine strain into a coupe glass. Top of with Guinness. Garnish with 2 fresh blackberries through skewer with edible green & gold glitter on top.

Irish Whiskey Mule

Ingredients
2 oz Irish whiskey
½ oz lime juice plus 1 lime wheel for serving
4 oz ginger beer
1 mint sprig for serving

Fill a copper mug or large rocks glass halfway with ice. Add the Irish whiskey and lime juice and stir to combine. Pour over the ginger beer, stir gently, and serve with a lime wheel and a sprig of mint.

Irish Negroni

Ingredients
1 part Red Bush Irish Whiskey
1 part herbal aperitif (such as Campari)
1 part sweet red vermouth
Orange peel

Combine ingredients in a rocks glass. Add ice and stir until combined.

Pot O’Gold

Ingredients
.75 oz. Chartreuse
.75 oz Grand Marnier
Splash of Fever-Tree Tonic Water
Edible gold flakes and microgreen

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir. Top with a splash of tonic water and garnish with gold flakes and microgreen.

Shamrocked

Ingredients
1.5 oz Midori Liqueur
1 oz Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey
.05 oz Irish Créme

Shake and strain over ice into a double old-fashioned glass. Top with homemade whipped cream and a fresh mint garnish.

Irish Old Fashioned

Ingredients
.25 oz honey syrup (2 parts honey, 1 part water)
2 dashes of Angostura bitters
2 oz Redbreast Irish Whiskey
Garnish with a swath of lemon

Combine all ingredients. Add ice and stir until the cocktail is chilled and properly diluted. Strain over ice into an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a swath of lemon.

Irish Coffee

Ingredients
16 oz hot water
2 tsp light brown sugar
1 cup brewed coffee
2 oz Irish whiskey (such as Jameson)
½ cup heavy cream for topping
Chocolate shavings for garnish

Fill 2 mugs with hot water and let sit for two minutes. Pour out the water and add one teaspoon of light brown sugar to each mug. Pour over hot coffee and stir to dissolve sugar, then pour in whiskey.

In a separate bowl with an electric mixer or by hand, whisk the cream until soft peaks form. The cream should be thick but still pourable. Top coffee with cream by gently pouring over the back of a warm spoon to form a thick layer on top of the coffee. Garnish with chocolate shavings.