St. Patrick's Day Cocktails - Updated for 2025

 

Ready or not, St. Patrick's Day is only 4 days away!

Yes, that's right!

But what does that mean?

Well, it means that you better get your cocktails in order.  STAT!

Over the years, I have made and created some pretty amazing cocktails, shooters, and more.  One of my favorite kinds of cocktails to make is a Holiday Cocktail!

They are so much fun to make!  I get to use different ingredients, colors, and decorations in my cocktails and photos, and I think it makes them taste better just knowing that they are a holiday cocktail.

For this round-up, I am going to share with you my St. Patrick's Day cocktails...now I only have a couple green cocktails in there, but if you REALLY wanted to have a green cocktail, I have a crap ton of other green "non St. Patrick's Day" cocktails on my blog that you can choose from.

Do you have traditions that your family does for St. Patrick's Day?  Now that our kids are grown, I no longer dump green food dye into the milk the night before for the kids to find in the morning....so besides eating corned beef, either putting a couple drops of green food coloring into our beers or making a yummy St. Patrick's Day cocktail....we really don't do much anymore.

OK, so onto the reason you are all here......My Collection of St. Patrick's Day Cocktails!

I wanted to start off with my Irish Delight, as the amazing people at Rent.com featured MY COCKTAIL, Irish Delight, in their 8 St. Patrick's Day Party Ideas Post!  It's been a while since I've posted and done much with my blog, so when I was contacted by them and told that they want to feature MY cocktail, I was excited!  Kinda ignited the small fire that was semi lit under my butt about jumping back onto the cocktail train!  

Also, a friend of mine has been sending me Instagram reels from a local guy who reviews and tries different recipes that people send him....and that's ALWAYS been something that I've wanted to do (among other ideas I have racing through my head)!  Him sending all of those reels was the initial fire being re-lit...you know.....under my butt (as I mentioned in the paragraph above, lol).

Anyways, I have a good variety of different kinds of cocktails and shooters for you to try on Monday, and here they are!

Irish Delight

Baby Guinness

Creamy Irish Balls

Irish Car Bomb

Creamy Nutty Paddy

Green Eyes

Irish Coffee

Leprechaun's Dream

Irish Coffee Balls

Nutty Irishman

Irish Cookie

Irish Headlock

There you have it, 12 St. Patrick's Day Cocktails that you can serve....or consume yourself (I'm not judging) on Monday!

I hope you all have a great day (or weekend) celebrating!  Stay tuned....b/c that fire is lit!  There will be more things coming in the future!  IF you're not following me on Instagram, please do!  I post more on there and would LOVE to connect with you!  You can go there now and follow me and see what I've been posting: Follow A Year Of Cocktails On Instagram

If you have any shots or cocktails that you would like me to try, message me on Instagram!  Maybe I'll feature your cocktail!

If you're on Facebook, you can follow me there as well at: Follow A Year Of Cocktails On Facebook


Until Next Time!

Irish Car Bomb

Irish Car Bomb

5 shots out of 5

With St. Patrick's Day vastly approaching, I thought it would be a good time to give you a new "Irish" cocktail to add to the list of possible drinks for Sunday.  


Last year on St. Patrick's Day we went out to celebrate a friends birthday.  We started the night with a pre-party here by having a few cocktails as well as some jello shots (not a good idea for me).  This year, I promise, I will not be drinking even a fraction of the amount I drank last year.

I gave tonight's cocktail 5 shots out of 5.  


Before anyone says "Hey, that's not how you make an Irish Car Bomb", let me just tell you, that's how we make them at our house.  


I totally get that a more "traditional" way to do is is to fill the shot glass half way with Bailey's and then float the other half with Irish Whiskey.  We like it the way I made it here and that is why I wanted to share our way with you.  


This is a delicious, fun cocktail to drink.......but let me warn you of the correct way to drink it.  

Once your pour your beer in the glass and drop your shot into it, your one MAIN goal is to CHUG THAT PUPPY DOWN faster then you've EVER chugged down a beer before. Why?  Ha ha, well let me tell you.  The longer the Bailey's sits in your beer (and believe me it won't take long) the more it curdles.......yes I said curdles.  My advice to you is to drink it all as fast as you can with your eyes closed so that you really have no clue what's going on inside your glass.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is our recipe for an Irish Car Bomb:

• 1 can Guinness stout
• 1 1/2 oz Bailey's Irish Cream

In a tall glass, pour your beer down the side to minimize your amount of foam.  Fill up your shot glass with Baileys.  Hold your beer in your preferred drinking hand and with your other hand drop in your shot glass that is filled with Baileys.  IMMEDIATELY chug your cocktail!!

Here's to St. Patrick's Day!  A day where drinking is smiled upon!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady