7 Special St. Patrick’s Day Drinks for 2025
It’s time to gear up for St. Patrick’s Day and celebrate all things green — especially green cocktails. Here are seven we like for this year, several of which will also work well for spring menus and brunch. (For more SPD drink ideas, here’s our cocktail roundup from 2024.)
Chapeau Melon
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Citadelle gin½ oz. Midori melon liqueur¼ oz. Ancho Reyes Verde chile liqueur½ oz. Lime1 ½ oz. Ginger beer
Instructions
Combine ingredients and shake.
Strain into highball glass over ice.
Garnish with sweet pineapple foam and beet salt.
Notes
Beverage director Jessica Duré and beverage consultant Naeem Lama created this recipe for Cosmo in New York.
Emerald Enchantment
Ingredients
2 oz. Irish whiskey1 oz. Sour apple schnapps2 oz. White cranberry juice
Instructions
Combine ingredients in shaker filled with ice.
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
Strain into chilled Martini glass.
Garnish with a green apple slice.
Notes
Dawid Smietana, food & beverage manager at Kilkea Castle in Ireland, created this recipe.
Welsh Dragon
Ingredients
1 oz. Leroux peach schnapps1 oz. Leroux melon liqueur½ oz. Leroux green crème de menthe1 ½ oz. Orange juice freshly squeezed1 ½ oz. Pineapple juice
Instructions
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake until well chilled.
Strain into a Collins glass with ice.
Garnish with cucumber ribbon.
Notes
Recipe from Phillips Distilling Co.’s Cocktailmanac 2025.
Madame Butterfly
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Vodka¼ oz. Strega¼ oz. Cucumber liqueur¾ oz. Lime juice1 oz. Yuzu Kosho honey shrub2 Cucumber slicesTop with club soda
Instructions
Build ingredients in a tin shaker with ice and 2 cucumber slices.
Shake and strain into a Collins glass with fresh ice.
Top with club soda.
Garnish with a bamboo leaf and orchid.
Notes
The mixologists at Queen in Miami Beach created this recipe.
Luck Be A Clover
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Keeper’s Heart Irish + American Whiskey1 ¼ oz. Midori¾ oz. Lemon juice1 Egg white optional
Instructions
Shake ingredients together.
Strain into coup.
Garnish with gold powder.
Notes
The mixologists at Keeper’s Heart created this recipe.
I Got You (I Feel Good)
Ingredients
2 oz. Bombay Gin½ oz. St Germain elderflower liqueur½ oz. Apple cordialCucumber foam top
Instructions
Stir liquid ingredients together.
Pour into a fizz cocktail glass.
Top with cucumber foam.
Garnish with a cucumber slice.
Notes
The mixologists at Lafayette Steakhouse in Miami created this recipe.
Shamrock & Roll
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Skrewball peanut butter whiskey¾ oz. White chocolate liqueur¾ oz. Creme de menthe½ oz. Half and halfChocolate syrupCocoa powder
Instructions
Rim a glass with chocolate syrup and cocoa powder.
Shake the rest of the ingredients in a shaker with ice.
Strain into the garnished glass.
Notes
The mixologists at Skrewball created this recipe.
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