St. Patrick’s Day Recipes from TheBar.com

by Lara on March 14th, 2008

Gotta love TheBar.com - they keep sending me all these coolie drink recipes to share with you guys for holidays or special occassions! This time it’s St. Patty’s Day!

We all know that March 17th is a day for drinking green beer and eating corned beef and cabbage… but can you imagine some of your favorite crooners going the full swing and dressing up for St. Pat’s? Why not, afterall, we had a kickass holiday office party, why not a St. Patty’s Day party?

Bailey’s Minty Shamrock
Ingredients
2 oz. Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Irish Cream
.5 oz. Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka
Preparation
Shake with ice, strain into martini glass, garnish with mint and chocolate swizzle stick
Alcohol content: .70 oz.

Guinness Shandy
Ingredients
.75 pint Guinness Draught
.25 pint lemon-lime soda
Preparation
Add Guinness Draught beer to pint glass and top off with lemon-lime soda
Alcohol content: .30 oz.

Bushmills Anniversary Cocktail - Celebrating 400 years of whiskey making in the Bushmills
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Bushmills Original Irish Whiskey
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. Honey syrup (equal parts honey and water)
2 dashes aromatic bitters
Preparation
Shake all ingredients (except bitters) with ice
Serve up with no garnish
Float bitters on top
Alcohol content: .60 oz.