St. Patrick's Day

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Discerning Drinkers (42 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Retro Coupe Engraved 7.75oz
Ingredients:
1 2/3 fl oz Irish whiskey
1/3 fl oz Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
1/3 fl oz Giffard Peppermint Pastille crème de menthe
1/3 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup
1 dash La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1/3 fl oz Thomas Henry Soda Water
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Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

Garnish:

Mint leaf or shamrock pegged to the rim

How to make:

SHAKE first 6 ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. TOP with splash soda.

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Strength & taste guide:


Review:

Verdant, vibrant, and virtuous - so virtuous that it's saintly! Faintly minty, herbal, and citrusy with whiskey making it a helluva craic.

History:

Created in 2006 by yours truly in London, England. (Better if it had been Dublin or Belfast!)

Nutrition:

One serving of St. Patrick's Day contains 214 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.5 standard drinks
  • 20.39% alc./vol. (40.78° proof)
  • 20.5 grams of pure alcohol
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The founder of Bacardi was a Catalan wine merchant called Facundo Bacardi Massó, who left Spain for Cuba in 1830.

Valentine's Day image

Valentine's Day

You can't have failed to notice that 14 February is St. Valentine's Day, a time of year when a sum equivalent to the GDP of a small country is spent on

Fernand Petiot's birthday image

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On this day in 1900, Fernand Pete Petiot was born in Paris, to parents who owned a guesthouse - he would come to fame, correctly or otherwise, as the inventor

Margarita Day image

Margarita Day

There are days for most things in the US, but Margarita Day is a subject very close to our hearts. Because, no matter who invented this classic cocktail,

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We're celebrating what the Oxford English dictionary defines as a person serving drinks at a bar, but we know as creative, hard-working folk who satisfy

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