Refreshing Green Cocktails for St. Patrick's Day

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By Om Paramapoonya

Bored of gin and tonic yet? Here is a list of 6 exotic cocktail recipes you may want to try. They're all easy to make, very tasty and GREEN! Perfect for St. Patrick's day, Halloween, or even when you're home alone and feel like having some good drinks to enliven your day.

You don't have a cocktail shaker? Don't panic. You can use any kind of jars with a lid instead. You can't find a shot measure? Not a problem. Use an egg cup or kitchen measuring spoons. Be creative. Adapt whatever you have into temporary cocktail equipments. Cheers!

Ninja Turtle - sweet and fruity

 

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce Hendricks Gin
  • 2 ounces blue curaçoa
  • Top up Orange Juice

Glass : Hurricane

Method

Add blue curaçoa and gin into a glass, half filled with ice. Add orange juice. Stir and serve!

Zen Master - smooth and strong

Ingredients

1 ounce Zen Green Tea Liqueur

2 ounces vodka

Thin cucumber slices

Glass : Rock

Method

Surround the inside base of a rock glass with fresh cucumber rings. Add some ice, then pour vodka over the ice. Top off with Zen.

Irish Drinking Song


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Green Haze - delicious blend of gin and juice

Ingredients

  • 1 shot Hendricks Gin
  • 1 shot De Kuyper Crème De Menthe - Green
  • Top up pineapple juice

Glass : Martini

Method

Fill your cocktail shaker (or jam jar) with ice. Add the De Kuyper Crème de Menthe- Green and gin. Shake well and strain (separate the liquid from ice) into a martini glass. Top up with pineapple juice.

St. Patrick VS. St. Valentine & St. Nicholas (Soooooo Hilarious)

Russian Spring - thirst-quenching and mildly sweet

Ingredients

  • 1 shot Russian Standard Vodka
  • 0.5 shot De Kuyper Crème De Menthe - Green
  • 1 shot apple juice
  • 2.5 shots soda

Glass : Highball

Method

Add the first 3 ingredients and ice into a shaker. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass, half filled with ice. Add soda water and stir.


And Another Irish Drinking Song

Cacktus Jack - explosively fruity

Ingredients

  • 1 shot Tequila
  • 0.75 shot De Kuyper Blue Curaçao
  • 1.25 shots orange juice
  • 1 shot pineapple juice
  • 0.5 shot lemon juice

Glass : Martini

Method

Shake all the ingredients together with ice. And voila! A marvelous drink!

Bagpipers Melody - very minty and surprisingly refreshing

Ingredients
 
  • 1 shot Grants Family Reserve Blended Whisky
  • 1 Shot De Kuyper Crème De Menthe - Green

Glass : Tumbler

Method

Half fill a tumbler glass with ice cubes. Add the De Kuyper Crème De Menthe - Green, then the Grants Family. Stir and serve.

 


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BooBe  says:
7 months ago

Will try Zen Master this week --- it looks sooo awesome!!!

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Om Paramapoonya  says:
7 months ago

Yeah, try it, BooBe. My favorite is Cactus Jack. I tried zen master once and thought the cucumber slices made it smell kind of funny. But I don't know...a lot of people claim to like it.

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