Go Green for your St Patrick's Day Cocktails

Green Martini

2 shots gin
½ shot green Chartreuse

Put both ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve and garnish with an olive.

Everybody's Irish

4 parts Irish whiskey
1 part green Chartreuse
1 part green crème de menthe

Stir all of the ingredients together in a mixing glass with ice. To serve, strain into a cocktail glass.

Lollipop

2 parts green Chartreuse
2 parts kirschwasser
2 parts triple sec
1 tsp maraschino liqueur

Place all of the ingredients, along with ice, into a cocktail shaker and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve

Pago Pago

6 parts gold rum
1 tsp white crème de cacao
1 tsp green Chartreuse
2 parts fresh lime juice
2 parts pineapple juice

Combine all of the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker and shake, rattle and roll. Strain into an old-fashioned glass to serve.

Irish Eyes

1 oz Irish whiskey
¼ oz green crème de menthe, green
2 oz cream

Place the whiskey, crème de menthe and cream into a shaker with ice cubes and shake well. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry to serve

Irish Pride

3 oz crème de menthe, green
3 oz Amaretto
2 oz lemon juice

Pour the crème de menthe into a highball glass, next pour in the Amaretto and follow with the lemon juice. Stir the ingredients together gently.

Green Fizz

½ tsp powdered sugar
1 egg white
½ lemon, juice of
2 oz dry gin
1 tsp green crème de menthe
carbonated water

Pour all of the ingredients (except the carbonated water)into a shaker along with ice. Shake well and strain into a highball glass. Top the glass up with carbonated water to serve.

Shamrock Cocktail

1 tsp green crème de menthe
½ oz vermouth
1½ oz Irish whiskey

Put all of the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve and garnish with an olive.

St. Patrick's Day Green Cocktail

1 oz Midori melon liqueur
1 oz whiskey sour mix
2 oz Sprite soda

Fill a highball glass with ice and then add the midori, sour mix and sprite. Stir before serving.

Midori Alexander recipe

2 oz Midori® melon liqueur
1 oz white crème de cacao
2 oz half-and-half

Place all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a brandy snifter and garnish with a maraschino cherry to serve.

Midori Cosmopolitan

¾ oz Midori
2 oz citrus vodka
Splash of white cranberry juice

Place all of the ingredients together in a cocktail shaker along with ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

This cocktail webpage was last updated by lou16 on 21st March 2012