Pour It Up With Four St. Patrick’s Day Inspired Cocktail Recipes

St. Patrick’s Day is almost here, and what better way to celebrate it than with a few cocktails that go beyond your average green beer selections? Creative and tasty cocktails are a fabulous way to get your St. Patty’s Day on while enjoying a festive Irish fete.

There will be plenty of pubs and clubs that will be having holiday soirees, but you can also have one at your home. Invite your closest friends and party it up in your home with these delicious cocktail recipes.

Check them out!:

Green Lantern

2-3 muddled limes and

1½  oz. Midori

1 oz. Lucid Absinthe

Ginger Ale

Garnish:  a long green lime spiral

In a rocks glass, muddle 3 lime wedges, add ice, Midori and LUCID and transfer to a shaker.  Shake thoroughly and return into rocks glass.  Now add ginger ale and lime spiral.

Green River

1.5 oz CAMUS VSOP Elegance Cognac
1.5 oz Midori
1 oz lemon Juice
Dash Angostura Bitters

Combine CAMUS VSOP Elegance Cognac, Midori, lemon juice and bitters with ice.  Stir and garnish with lemon.

Irish Kiss

2 parts Rhuby Rhubarb Liqueur

2 parts smooth tequila

Fresh basil

Lemon juice

Muddle fresh basil, add Rhuby and tequila and shake over ice. Strain into a chilled salt-rimmed tumbler and add a bit of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Garnish with a basil leaf.

St. Patty’s Smash

1½ oz. CAMUS VSOP

½ oz. CAMUS Coffee French Roast, brewed and chilled

2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters

2 dashes chocolate bitters

Lucid Absinthe rinse

Simple syrup

Directions: Add all but absinthe to a mixing glass. Stir. Strain into a chilled rocks glass with an absinthe rinse. Garnish with an orange peel.

I, for one, will be trying a few of these cocktail recipes myself to celebrate the Luck of the Irish. How about about you?

Thanks to Deussen Global for sending these recipes over!