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13 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails To Try This Year

13 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails To Try This Year

Green beer, car bombs, and Guinness. These beverages are beloved staples on St. Patrick’s Day, and while there’s definitely nothing wrong with sticking with the classics, there’s no denying that they can lose their appeal after a while. After all, it’s easy to get sick of the same old thing year after year. This is where the help of some delicious St. Patrick’s Day cocktails comes in handy.

Regardless of how you’re celebrating this year—whether you’re doing so at home or going out—cheers to the luck of the Irish with one of these drinks. These cocktails elevate and put a fun spin on the classics, and will have you feeling lucky in the best way possible. Keep scrolling to learn the 13 St. Patrick’s Day cocktails to try this year.

St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails:

st. patrick's day cocktails to try this year

1. Irish Coffee

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz whiskey
  • 1 cup hot coffee
  • 1 dash sugar/low-calorie sweetener
  • whipped cream
  • tall coffee mug
  • spoon
  • 1 dash ground nutmeg (to garnish; optional)

HOW-TO:

  1. In tall coffee mug, combine whiskey, coffee, and sugar. Stir ingredients.Fill coffee mug up about 3/4 of the way with hot coffee, then add in desired amount of sugar/Splenda. Stir to combine.
  2. Top with whipped cream and dash of ground nutmeg on top of whipped cream. Serve immediately.

2. Lucky Charms Shots

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 1 cup Irish cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup Luck Charm’s cereal
  • vanilla frosting
  • rainbow sprinkles
  • shot glasses
  • fine mesh strainer
  • spoon

HOW-TO:

  1. Take 1 cup of milk and pour 1/2 cup of cereal into it. Let it sit in the fridge for 10 minutes to infuse flavor. Then strain through fine mesh strainer into pitcher. Set cereal aside.
  2. Add Irish cream into pitcher with milk, and stir to combine.
  3. Take remaining cereal and crush finely, then pour onto plate with rainbow sprinkles.
  4. Rim shot glasses with vanilla frosting, then dip into crushed cereal and sprinkles combination.
  5. Pour milk and Irish cream combination into shot glasses. Serve right away or keep chilled in fridge.

3. Fuzzy Leprechaun

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz vodka
  • 1/2 oz blue curacao
  • 1/2 oz peach schnapps
  • 3 oz orange juice
  • 3 oz pineapple juice
  • 1 orange slice
  • 1 maraschino cherry
  • pint glass
  • ice
  • cocktail shaker + strainer

HOW-TO:

  1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice, then add in vodka, blue curacao, peach schnapps, orange juice, and pineapple juice. Cover and shake well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch.
  2. Pour all ingredients in shaker into pint glass, and garnish with an orange slice on rim and cherry in drink.

4. Irish Mule

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 1.5 oz whiskey
  • 1/2 oz fresh lime juice (made from squeezing juice out of limes into separate glass)
  • 1 can ginger beer
  • 1 slice lime
  • copper mug
  • ice
  • cocktail spoon (to stir; substitute regular spoon)

HOW-TO:

  1. Fill copper mug with ice, then add in whiskey and fresh lime juice.
  2. Fill remainder of mug with ginger beer. Stir to combine.
  3. Garnish with a slice of lime on rim or in glass.

5. Irish Floats

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
  • 1 cup Guinness
  • 1/2 cup Irish cream
  • chocolate syrup
  • tall glass

HOW-TO:

  1. Scoop 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream into tall glass, then pour Guinness and Irish cream over ice cream.
  2. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and serve immediately.
st. patrick's day cocktails

*Yields more than 1 serving; may substitute regular dairy products in recipe.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 cups coconut milk vanilla ice cream (may substitute almond milk or any other dairy-free vanilla ice cream)
  • 1/2 oz vanilla vodka
  • 1/2 oz creme de menthe
  • 2 drops green food coloring
  • almond milk whipped cream (substitute any other dairy-free whipped cream)
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
  • gold sprinkles
  • blender
  • rocks glass (or size equivalent)

HOW-TO:

  1. Combine ice cream, vanilla vodka, creme de menthe, almond milk, and green food coloring into blender. Cover, and blend ingredients until smooth.
  2. Pour into rocks glass, and top with whipped cream and sprinkles. Serve immediately.

7. Whiskey Lemonade

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz whiskey
  • 2 oz lemonade
  • 1 lemon wedge
  • ice
  • pint glass
  • sugar (for rim; optional)
  • cocktail shaker + strainer

HOW-TO:

  1. If doing sugared rim: pour sugar onto plate, then wet rim of pint glass. Dip rim into sugar, and set aside.
  2. Fill cocktail shaker with ice, then add in whiskey and lemonade. Cover and shake well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch.
  3. Pour all ingredients from cocktail shaker into pint glass, and garnish with lemon wedge on rim.

8. Four Leaf Clover Martini

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 1.5 oz vanilla vodka
  • 1 oz creme de menthe
  • 2 oz unsweetened vanilla almond milk
  • whipped cream (may substitute dairy-free whipped cream)
  • chilled martini glass
  • cocktail shaker + strainer
  • ice

HOW-TO:

  1. Place martini glass in freezer, then fill cocktail shaker with ice, followed by vodka, creme de menthe, and unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Cover and shake well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch, and drink should come out frothy.
  2. Remove martini glass from freezer, and strain ingredients from cocktail shaker into glass. Top with whipped cream.

9. Nutty Irishman

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 1.5 oz whiskey
  • 1.5 oz Irish cream
  • 1.5 oz Frengelico
  • 1.5 oz coffee liqueur
  • 1 cup hot coffee
  • 1 dash ground nutmeg
  • whipped cream
  • chocolate syrup
  • tall coffee mug
  • cocktail spoon (to stir; substitute regular spoon or straw)

HOW-TO:

  1. Pour whiskey, Irish cream, Frangelico, and coffee liquer into tall coffee mug, then fill remainder with hot coffee, stopping just below the rim.
  2. Gently stir ingredients together.
  3. Top with whipped cream, drizzled chocolate syrup, and ground nutmeg.
st. patrick's day cocktails to try this year

10. Baby Guinness Shot

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz coffee liqueur
  • 0.5 oz Irish cream
  • spoon
  • shot glass

HOW-TO:

  1. Pour coffee liqueur into shot glass, then take a spoon and flip upside down and place on edge of glass.
  2. Pour Irish cream over spoon to float on top of coffee liqueur.

11. Shamrock Sour

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1 oz fresh lemon juice (made from squeezing juice out of lemons into separate glass)
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice (made from squeezing juice out of limes into separate glass)
  • 1/2 oz simple syrup (directions below)
  • 2 drops green food coloring
  • 1 dessert cherry
  • pint glass
  • ice
  • cocktail shaker + strainer

SIMPLE SYRUP DIRECTIONS*:

*This should be chilled in fridge for at least an hour before it’s used in cocktail. It can also be made the night before and stored in fridge, covered, for 2-3 days.

  1. Pour 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water into a pot.
    1. Note: substitute Splenda for a healthier option.
  2. Bring to a boil on stovetop, stirring frequently.
  3. Once sugar has dissolved completely, remove pot from hot burner and turn off stove. Let mixture cool completely.
    1. Note: if simple syrup seems thin and watery, add in a tiny bit more sugar; repeat if needed until mixture is thicker.
  4. Pour into glass, cover, and store in fridge for at least an hour.

HOW-TO:

  1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice, then add in bourbon, lemon juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and food coloring. Cover and shake well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch.
  2. Pour ingredients from cocktail shaker into pint glass, and garnish with a cherry in drink.

12. Green Apple Sangria

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 2 oz moscato
  • 1 oz apple schnapps
  • 1/2 oz brandy
  • 1/2 oz peachtree liqueur
  • 2 oz orange juice
  • 1/2 oz lemon-lime soda
  • 2-4 apple slices
  • 1 orange slice
  • 1 dessert cherry
  • wine glass
  • ice
  • cocktail shaker + strainer

HOW-TO:

  1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice, then add in white wine, apple schnapps, brandy, peachtree liqueur, and orange juice. Cover and shake well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch.
  2. Place apple slices in wine glass, then pour ingredients from cocktail shaker over them. Top with lemon-lime soda, and garnish with an apple slice and cherry in drink, and orange slice on rim.

13. Irish Mojito

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 1 oz whiskey
  • 1/2 oz simple syrup (see above for directions)
  • 1/2 oz fresh lime juice (made from squeezing juice out of limes into separate glass)
  • 3 oz soda water
  • 6 mint leaves
  • 2 lime wedges
  • muddler (substitute back of fork)
  • pint glass
  • ice
  • cocktail shaker + strainer
  • 1 sprig of mint

HOW-TO:

  1. Place mint leaves, simple syrup, and 1 lime wedge, into pint glass. Muddle ingredients together well, then fill pint glass up with ice, and add in whiskey and fresh lime juice, then transfer ingredients from pint glass into cocktail shaker.
  2. Cover cocktail shaker and shaker well—cocktail shaker should be cold to the touch.
  3. Pour ingredients from cocktail shaker into pint glass, then top with soda water and add ice if necessary.
  4. Garnish with lime wedge on rim and sprig of mint in drink.
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