Name: Irish Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Irish whiskey; 1.25 ml Orange Curaçao; 1.25 ml Maraschino liqueur; 1 dash Absinthe; 1 dash Boker's bitters

Irish Cocktail
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Irish whiskey
¹⁄₂₄ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₂₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 dash	Boker's bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist (discarded) & Fragata Green Olive.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered olive.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Stir well and strain into an icy cold glass and this subtly flavoured whiskey cocktail is a delicious way to chase a good evening.

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Variant:

Improved Whiskey Cocktail

History:

Adapted from Harry Johnson's 1900 Bartenders' Manual.

IRISH COCKTAIL.
Use a large bar glass.)
Fill up a glass with shaved ice;
2 or 3 dashes of absinthe;
1 dash of maraschino;
1 dash of curaçoa;
2 dashes of bitters (Boker's genuine only);
1 wineglassful of Irish whiskey;
Stir up well with a spoon, strain into a cocktail glass, putting in a medium-sized olive, then squeeze a piece of lemon peel on top, and serve.
Harry Johnson, 1900

The Irish Cocktail also features in:
- Harry MacElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails garnished with a "medium-sized olive and squeeze lemon peel on top"
- Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book garnished with a "olive and squeeze orange peel on top"
- Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 Official Mixer's Manual also with a "olive and squeeze orange peel on top"

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Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
31.49% alc./vol. (31.49° proof)
15.2 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Jerry Bryant

4th June 2023 at 22:43

I searched for dry whiskey cocktails and Difford’s delivered. The only Irish I have on hand is Jameson’s stout edition. It works well in this drink, and I find m’self wondering how this drink will be with, say, Redbreast. “Oh stick to the craithur, the best thing in nature for sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.”

Chris Brislawn

9th March at 04:13

Revisited this after a lengthy absence and followed the recipe this time; wow, what a difference. Using Difford's amounts, this must have the tiniest proportion of non-base-liquor ingredients of any cocktail I've made, so I used it to show off my best craithur (Redbreast 12-year-old), with excellent results. Also used Cheritelli, which has a bit more cherry flavor than most maraschinos. Directions are sketchy but I assume one is supposed to express the orange zest over the drink *before* discarding, though I folded & put it on the sword with the green olive (green on top). Just enough fancy to turn a glass of Irish into a cocktail. Slainte!