Let's get the celebrations started! Raise a toast this St Patrick's Day with our round-up of tasty and easy cocktail recipes. Featuring traditional Irish tipples such as Guinness Extra Stout and Feeney's Irish Cream liqueur, these cocktails will make a tasty addition to your St Patrick's Day festivities.
SEE: 6 delicious Irish recipes for your St Patrick's Day celebrations
Guinness Black Velvet Cocktail
INGREDIENTS
- ½ flute champagne
- ½ flute Guinness Extra Stout
METHOD
Pour the Guinness Extra Stout into a clean/ polished champagne flute. Top up the glass with champagne, being careful to ensure there is no overspill. The Guinness Black Velvet should have a good dark colour with a frothy head, resembling a Pint of Guinness.
The Feeney's Cream Breeze
INGREDIENTS
- 20ml Feeney's Irish cream liqueur
- 15ml Muldoon whiskey
- 20ml stout syrup
- A sprig of mint
METHOD
Mix ingredients in glass. Top with crushed ice. Garnish with a sprig of mint.
South Side
INGREDIENTS
- 2 parts BULLDOG Gin
- 1 part Lemon Juice
- 5 Mint Leaves
- 0.75 parts Simple Syrup
METHOD
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a rocks glass full of ice and garnish with a sprig of mint or rosemary.
GARNISH
Mint Sprig / Rosemary
That’s the Spirit
INGREDIENTS
- 1 oz. Crystal Head Vodka
- ½ oz. premium melon liqueur
- 3-4 fresh mint leaves
- ¼ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1 ½ oz. fresh pineapple juice
METHOD
Muddle mint leaves and Crystal Head in a shaker. Add ice and remaining ingredients then shake well. Strain and pour into a cocktail glass.
GARNISH
Sprig of fresh mint
The Stonewell and Gortinore honey twist
INGREDIENTS
- 25ml stonewell cider
- 35ml Gortinore whiskey
- 25ml lemon juice
- 20ml honey syrup
- 25ml soda water
- mint
- Absinthe spray
METHOD
Pour the whiskey, cider, lemon juice and honey syrup in a glass over ice.
Top with soda water, garnish with sprig of mint. Spray with absinthe spray.
The Teeling & Fentimans Pink Grapefruit Tonic
INGREDIENTS
- 50ml Teeling Blended Irish Whiskey
- 125ml Fentimans Pink Grapefruit Tonic Water
METHOD
Build in a highball with Plenty of ice and garnish with a sprig of Rosemary and a slice of fresh orange.