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!

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Until Next Time!

Irish Delight

I created another cocktail for St. Patty's day today and I call it Irish Delight.  


Towards the end of last year (still can't believe March is half over) I noticed all of these different flavors that Bailey's was coming out with.  


I had purchased the Vanilla Cinnamon flavor and have only made one cocktail with it so far, Beauty And The Beast.  Today was my time to make another one.

I decided to pull out my bottle of Jamesons Whiskey and mix it up with the Baileys and see what I got.  Apparently I got an Irish Delight.......since that's what I named it.  


Not being a whiskey girl, I must admit this cocktail is pretty good.  


I do definitely taste the whiskey in it, but since this is a whiskey cocktail....I think you should.  The vanilla cinnamon flavoring in the Baileys adds a nice twist to this cocktail as well.  All in all, I like it and I think if you like the ingredients--you'll like it too!

This year for St. Patrick's Day we are having my folks over for dinner.  


Every year we go to my parents house and my mom boils up a corned beef, but this year I am going to cook mine in the slow cooker.  I have tried my friend Stephanie's recipe for her Dijon Corned Beef.  My family all likes it and I just know the folks will like it as well.  I am also making one of her scalloped potato recipes, but in the oven.  


YUM!!  I can't wait just thinking about it!  


Do you have any plans for the day?  What are they?  What will you be eating and drinking?

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here in my recipe for an Irish Delight:

• 1 ounce of Irish Whiskey
• 1 1/2 ounces Baileys Vanilla Cinnamon Irish Cream

Fill a short cocktail glass up with ice.  Dump that ice into a shaker and pour in the two ingredients above.  Shake lightly to mix it up, but not too hard to crush the ice.  Dump everything back into your glass.

Here's to a good whiskey cocktail!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Dirty Bastard

I keep telling you how crazy our weeks are, thinking that this next week will settle down a bit........ but they continue to be crazy.  

Another crazy week gone and we're relaxing this weekend and getting ready for the next.  

This is the first weekend in a long time that I can remember that we have been able to just (more or less because there's always "something" kid related that gets us out of the house) stay home and relax.  

It is really nice being able to sit around the house all day in our pj's.  

I love weekends like this.

I found this cocktail recipe on the Cosmopolitan website.  

I still don't have a copper cup like the one pictures on Cosmo, but the directions say to strain it into a glass, so I did.  

Let me just say, LIME, yes lime is the one thing in this cocktail that I really really taste.  At the end of my sip I can taste a smidgen of the Irish Whiskey, but that's it.  

I think maybe half the amount of lime juice I used would be a lot better, especially for those of you who enjoy the taste (and would like to  actually taste the whiskey) of Irish Whiskey.  

Now this cocktail is not horrid, but it is quite limey.  If you REALLY enjoy the taste of lime juice in your cocktails, then I believe this cocktail is for you!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Dirty Bastard:

• 1 1/2 ounces Irish Whiskey
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• 5 dashes bitters
• 1/2 ounce ginger beer

In a cocktail shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above except for the ginger beer.  Shake and strain your cocktail into a short glass.  Top off your cocktail with the ginger beer.

Here's to everyone having a great weekend!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Irish Coffee

Day 345

Irish Coffee

2.5 shots out of 5

I can't believe we made it......sometimes it seems like the shortest weeks can be the longest.  

I am super glad that this week is over and that we are onto the weekend.  


Since it has been such a long week and I feel like I lost this weeks energy yesterday, I decided to find and make a coffee (hot coffee) cocktail this evening.

I gave tonight's cocktail 2.5 shots out of 5.  


First off, I was supposed to "float" the cream on top of this cocktail.  

Yea......didn't work.  

Reason being is that I needed my cocktail to be higher up in the glass so that I could get my spoon down to the top of it while I layered the cream.  


Oh well, a quick stir fixes everything, I guess.  


I can definitely taste this cocktails potential and if I liked whiskey a bit more, this cocktail would be better.  

What I really taste is this cocktail is the whiskey.....don't get me wrong I can totally taste the coffee and cream as well, but the whiskey gives me too much of a bite which turns me off to this cocktail a bit.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for an Irish Coffee:

• 2 1/2 oz hot coffee
• 1 1/2 oz Irish Whiskey
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 1 oz whipping cream

In a glass coffee mug pour in all of your items except for the whipping cream.  Stir them up well. Float your whipping cream on top.

Here's to a long week being over and a fun weekend on the horizon!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Old Fashioned

Day 104

Old Fashioned

3 shots out of 5

Tonight I'm turning back the clock to make a cocktail that our Grandparents.......probably even their parents enjoyed to sip on.  

This cocktail was so popular, the cocktail glass that they made it in became named after it.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3 shots out of 5.  

I was torn on how to rate this cocktail.  I'm not a straight whiskey fan by far......I initially thought of giving it a 2.5.  

If I had a bigger taste for whiskey it would have gotten a much higher rating.  

I did like it more then a 2.5 if I took little sips (which if you know me, that's something I "rarely" do).  

I think this cocktail is supposed to be sipped in little sips (the way I'm sipping it), therefore I decided to rate it a 3.  

I had a great Memorial weekend with my family and my folks and got talking with my mom about my blog and she had asked me if I had done a Manhattan, Old Fashioned and a couple other older cocktail that I can't remember.  

It got me to thinking that I need to throw some "classic" cocktails in there from time to time.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for an Old Fashioned:

• 1 cube of sugar (or 1 tsp. if you don't have a cube.........I didn't have a cube)
• 2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters (I had bitters that were similar to Angostura)
• 2 ounces of whiskey (just under a shot and a half)
• dash of club soda (a little less then 1/4 shot)
• 3 ice cubes

In a short cocktail glass pour in your sugar, then put your dashes of bitters on top.  Pour in your club soda and muddle them together.  Put in your ice cubes, then your whiskey and stir real well.

Here's to taking a step back and enjoying a cocktail that my Grandpa used to enjoy.

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Irish Headlock Cocktail

Day 31

Irish Headlock

2 shots out of 5

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all!!  


Hope you remembered to wear your green today!  Since it is an Irish holiday today, I figured that I should honor that and make an Irish cocktail!  


There were quite a few to choose from and finally I decided on the Irish Headlock.  

I gave tonight's cocktail 2 shots out of 5, which I know most likely upsets my husband because he really liked it.  


I don't really have a liking for whiskey.......sorry.  

I keep sipping it and trying to like it, but it's just......I can't do it.  

When I start to take a sip the baileys is the first thing I taste, so I think, hey, maybe I'm used to the flavor now and will like it...........NOPE THERE'S THE WHISKEY FLAVOR!!  

Tonight's cocktail makes me make squinchy faces.  


Maybe by the end of this year of cocktails I'll be used to the flavor of whiskey?  I mean I'm "starting" to tolerate gin now.......yea we'll just have to wait and see on that one.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for the Irish Headlock:

• 1/2 shot Irish Whiskey
• 1/2 shot Irish Cream (such as Baileys)
• 1/2 shot Brandy (I used cognac)
• 1/2 shot Amaretto

In a shaker add ice, Irish Whiskey, Irish Cream, Brandy and Amaretto.  Shake your cocktail real well to mix it up real good.  Strain your cocktail into a frosted highball glass and if you enjoy whiskey........enjoy!  

Cheers to Saint Patrick's Day!  Hope you all enjoy your evening!!

The Cocktail Lady