Category: holiday

1oz Blueberry Syrup (recipe below)

3oz Plymouth Gin

Top with Tonic Water

Garnish with Lime and Blueberries

For Syrup:

0.5 cup sugar

0.5 cup water

1 cup fresh blueberries

March 28, 2024July 2, 2024

Blueberry Syrup Build

Put everything in a pan and bring to simmer on the stove

Cook until the sugar is dissolved and the blueberries are mushy (stirring often)

Remove from heat and allow to cool

Use a strainer to filter into a bottle

Build cocktail in the glass!

Fill high ball glass with ice

Add syrup and gin

Top with Tonic Water

Squeeze a little lime and garnish with Lime wedge and blueberries

The Final Say

If you enjoy a “Last Word” but can’t find Green Chartreuse, we highly recommend this cocktail as an alternative. We modified the original recipe a fair amount, so you might need to as well. The Violete can quickly overpower the drink, so experiment and start lighter. And stick with a mild gin like Plymouth or Old Tom.

Cheers!

1oz Plymouth Gin

1oz Maraschino Liqueur

1oz Fresh Lime Juice

0.75oz Creme de Violete

March 14, 2024July 2, 2024

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 10 seconds

Double strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass

Source: Can’t recall the original source, but the ratios were modified by BC

GingerLocks

No St Patrick’s Day would be complete without a ginger ale or ginger beer based drink. This one requires a very specific whiskey. RedLocks is a Minnesota made Irish whiskey, and it’s worth checking out if you can find it. For locals it’s easy to snag, so go grab a bottle this weekend and try out this Irish cocktail! It’s worth noting that RedLocks is a milder Irish whiskey, if you’re used to drinking Jameson. But a good smooth.

Local should stop by Kierans Pub in Minneapolis, if you get a chance, where the GingerLocks was invented, and is always on the menu!! Cheers!

2oz Red Locks Irish Whiskey

1oz Ginger Ale

Garnish with lime wedge

Fill Collins glass with ice

Add whiskey and top off with Ginger Ale

Garnish with Lime wedge

Source: Red Locks GingerLocks recipe

Our first MiniMenu for St Patrick’s Day!!

We’ve updated our “menu list” to include a sneak peak of an upcoming Patreon Perk: Mini Menus! This one is for St. Patrick’s Day. More will come in the future, and starting in May it will be for Patreon Members Only.

We also updated our “Standards” menu, and made it “The Keepers“, listing our favorite cocktails and mocktails from past seasonal menus and cocktail parties in general. Enjoy!

The Gunpowder of Middle Earth

Another amazing cocktail name. We must believe somewhere in Middle Earth they grew kiwi plants, right?! Perhaps not in the Shire or Helm’s Deep. But the sunny parts that weren’t found in the Hobbit or the Ring Trilogy. Well, geeky rant aside, this one is pretty fun.

You’ll be muddling the green fruit for this one, so get a muddler if you don’t already have one. You might also have noticed the name “Gunpowder” in the name. That’s not a flavor, it’s a BRAND. Don’t spoil this cocktail with Beefeater or even Hendriks. Get a good bottle of Gunpowder IRISH Gin, and enjoy every last drop in this cocktail and any others you make. Cheers!

1.5oz Gunpowder Irish Gin

0.5oz Fresh Kiwi (peedled and cubed)

0.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5oz Simple Syrup

1 kiwi slice for garnish

Add the kiwi to a cocktail shaker and muddle into a paste

Add remaining ingredients to the cocktail shaker

Add ice and shake for 12-15 seconds

Double strain into a chilled coupe

Garnish with a slice of kiwi

Source: Palm Bay International cocktail recipe

Midori Sour

One of the first cocktail I ever had over twenty years ago was the Midori Sour. It’s an often teased drink, but for this St Patrick’s Day, let’s give it a shot.

Here’s the key to a good Midori Sour, do not, I repeat, DO NOT use “sweet and sour mix”. One shot of midori and two shot of that does not a good cocktail make! You have to juice a lemon and a lime to get a good drink here, so do the work!

The vodka shot is extra, if you want a little extra kick in your melon flavored drink. I don’t make them often anymore, but the taste brings me back, and perhaps it might be the same way for you. Cheers!

1.5oz Midori Melon Liqueur

1oz Vodka

0.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5oz Fresh Lime Juice

3oz Club Soda (or lemon lime soda if you want it sweeter)

Here’s a link for a hand juicer, if you don’t have one.

Add all ingredients (but soda) to a highball or collins glass filled with ice (build in glass!!)

Stir for 20 seconds to combine the elements

Top off with Club Soda and stir again to mix

Source: Delish Midori Sour Recipe

Grace O’Malley

On the hunt for an interesting cocktail based in Irish Whiskey, the name of this one jumped right off the digital page. We were intrigued by the combination of Irish whiskey with coffee liqueur. Adding orgeat, a tiki staple, was eyebrow raising, and then just tossing lemon in at the end? We were skeptical.

The outcome is a very interesting cocktail. Almost a St Patrick’s Tiki Drink. All the flavors have somehow combined into something new, which we love about cocktails. So, if you are looking for an interesting way to add some Jameson to your Saint Patrick’s Day (or any day), check this one out! Plus, as it requires a straw to drink, it’s VR Enabled!!! Cheers!

1.5oz Irish Whiskey (Jameson)

1oz Coffee Liqueur (we used Tia Maria)

0.75oz Orgeat

0.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5oz Simple Syrup