12 Awesome St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails to Get Your Juices Flowing [Infographic]

Ingredients

• Ice cubes
• 2 ounces vodka
• 1-1/2 ounces sour apple liqueur
• 1-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
• Garnish – Green apple slice

Directions

• Fill a shaker three-fourths full with ice.
• Add the vodka, apple liqueur and lemon juice.
• Cover and shake for 10-15 seconds or until condensation forms on outside of shaker.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Garnish as desired.
• Yield: 1 serving.

Ingredients

• 1 Bottle of champagne
• 1 Green dye
• 1 Glass to Put it in

Directions

• Gotta love the idea of pouring a nice bubbly and adding a bit of green food coloring.
• Sparkling wine is the closest match to beer anyway, with its crisp acidity and palate-cleansing abilities.

Ingredients

• Liquid green food coloring. Blue or Green Food Coloring? Always go for Green if available. While the blue will work the foam holds a blue tint.
• Beer
• Glasses or mugs

Directions

• Place 2 drops of green liquid food coloring in the bottom of a beer mug or glass.
• Add the beer. No stirring needed. Voila.
• Three drops resulted in more of a Kelly green shade.

Ingredients

• 3 oz Lime Jell-O
• 1 Cup (8 oz) boiling water
• 4 oz. Tequila (Blanco/Silver)
• 1 oz Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1/2 oz cold water

Directions

• Dissolve Jell-O into one cup (8 oz) of boiling water.
• Allow a little time for the mixture to cool.
• Stir in tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and water.
• Pour mixture into shot glasses or paper/plastic cups.
• Chill for at least two hours before serving.
• Store in the refrigerator.

Ingredients (Serves 6)

• 11/2 cups gold tequila
• 3/4 cup Triple Sec
• 3/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 8 cups crushed ice
• 2 tablespoons kosher salt
• 6 lime wedges

Directions

• Combine tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and 2 tablespoons sugar in large pitcher
• stir to dissolve sugar.
• Add crushed ice.
• Mix salt and remaining 2 tablespoons sugar in shallow bowl.
• Moisten rim of 6 Margarita glasses with lime wedge.
• Holding each glass upside down, dip rim into sugar-salt mixture.
• Pour. Garnish with lime wedges.

Ingredients

• 3 cups heavy or whipping cream
• 7 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup Irish whiskey
• 6 cups rich, hot brewed coffee
• Garnish: Grated nutmeg or ground cinnamon (optional)

Directions

• Add 2 tablespoons whiskey to each glass.
• Stir 4 tablespoons sugar into coffee until dissolved.
• For each drink, fill glass with coffee to within 11/4 inch from top.
• Pour whipped cream over back of spoon onto coffee.
• Garnish: Sprinkle with nutmeg or cinnamon, if desired.

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz Bushmills Whiskey
• .25 oz Fresh lime juice
• 2 oz Ginger ale
• Garnish: Lime wheel
• Glass: Collins

Directions

• Add the whiskey and lime juice to a Collins glass filled with ice.
• Top with the ginger ale and garnish with a lime wheel.
• Garnish as desired.

Ingredients

• 1 oz Vodka
• 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
• 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
• 3 oz orange juice
• 3 oz Sprite
• Ice

Directions

• Combine ingredients in cocktail shaker filled with ice.
• Shake and strain into glasses.
• Garnish with an orange slice and cherry.

Ingredients

• 20 Rinsed fresh mint leaves (each about 1 1/2 in. long)
• 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
• 4 to 5 tablespoons light rum
• 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice & 4 to 6 tablespoons chilled soda water
• 1 sprig of fresh mint

Directions

• In an 8- to 10-ounce glass, combine 20 rinsed fresh mint leaves (each about 1 1/2 in. Long) and 2 teaspoons superfine sugar.
• With a wooden spoon, pound mint leaves with sugar to coarsely crush.
• Add 4 to 5 tablespoons light rum, 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice; mix well.
• Fill glass with ice cubes and 4 to 6 tablespoons chilled soda water.
• Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.

Ingredients

• 1 ripe kiwi
• 70ml kiwi liqueur
• 30ml vanilla vodka
• 3-4 ice cubes

Directions

• Peel the kiwi and mash it with a fork into smooth paste.
• Add all ingredients into the shaker and shake well.
• Serve in a martini glass.

Ingredients

• Cinnamon and sugar for rimming glass
• 5 tablespoons vodka
• 5 tablespoons sour-apple schnapps
• 5 tablespoons lemonade
• 5 tablespoons lemon-lime soda (such as 7-Up or Sprite)

Directions

• In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine vodka, schnapps, lemonade and lemon-lime soda.
• Cover and shake vigorously.
• Dip rim edge of martini glasses in a shallow dish with 1/4-inch water, then in a shallow dish with 1/4-inch of equal parts sugar and cinnamon mixture.
• Strain shaken mixture into prepared glasses and serve.

Ingredients

• 2 cans (12 ounces each) frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
• 2 cups lime-flavored sports drink
• 1 cup light rum
• 2 cans (12 oz each) lemon-lime carbonated beverage, chilled

Directions

• In large pitcher, mix limeade concentrate, sports drink and rum.
• Refrigerate until serving time.
• Just before serving, pour punch into punch bowl.
• Stir in carbonated beverage.