Irish whiskey based cocktails for St. Patrick’s Day. A couple of ideas here for Irish themed cocktail drinks. Some green drinks for March 17th. A time to dust off the bottle of Irish whiskey and put it to celebratory use. Alternatively sip some very special single pot still whiskey. Whatever is your thing.
Category: whiskey cocktails
Manhattan – simple but brilliant cocktail
The Manhattan is a simple-to-make and elegant cocktail. One of my personal favourites. Rye whisky based.
The trouble with whisky in cocktails
Whisky cocktails may not be plentiful as whisky especially scotch doesn’t play nicely with other ingredients, but if you’re determined you can find some cracking cocktails using a variety of whiskies.
Make your own sugar syrup – it’s simple
Making your own simple syrup at home for your cocktails is easy. Equal volumes of granulated sugar and near boiling water in your glass bottle is the way to do it.
Deauville – the Sazerac reformulated
The Deauville is my reworked version of the old classic cocktail the Sazerac. Led by the fact that I’m not keen on the flavour of aniseed, I swapped out the absinthe, and replaced it with Chartreuse. Also I find Yellow Chatreuse works better than green. Tastes better and the colour is better too.
New cocktail – St. Louis with Southern Comfort
St. Louis is a new in-house created cocktail. A great Southern Comfort cocktail. Strong mind.
New England – a cocktail for Autumn
If Autumn was a cocktail this is what it would taste like. A blend of bourbon, maple spiced syrup and pressed apple juice.