Check Out Our St. Patrick's Day 2025 Cocktail Roundup

St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) is fast approaching, but the parties, bar crawls, and other festivities will be in full swing all weekend. Doing our part, CASSIUS has put together a nice collection of clever cocktails that fit the theme of St. Patrick’s Day as best we could connect. Breaking the fourth wall here: St. Patrick’s Day isn’t something I grew up celebrating, nor do I have a ton of Irish friends. I do, however, have plenty of pals who like to have a good beverage or two, and this weekend is a prime time for such activity. SPD began as a celebration in Ireland to honor St. Patrick, a patron saint of the nation. Irish immigrants to the Unnited States brought SPD to our shores, and the holiday became less about St. Patrck and more about raucous celebrations at homes and local watering holes.

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As I did last year, I’ll share Britanica‘s explanation of what SPD is instead of my ham-handed attempt: It was emigrants, particularly to the United States, who transformed St. Patrick’s Day into a largely secular holiday of revelry and celebration of things Irish. Cities with large numbers of Irish immigrants, who often wielded political power, staged the most extensive celebrations, which included elaborate parades. Boston held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1737, followed by New York City in 1762. Since 1962 Chicago has coloured its river green to mark the holiday. (Although blue was the colour traditionally associated with St. Patrick, green is now commonly connected with the day.) Irish and non-Irish alike commonly participate in the “wearing of the green”—sporting an item of green clothing or a shamrock, the Irish national plant, in the lapel. I know I’ll be having a few Irish coffees over the weekend, a drink I never get enough of and crave around this time of year. I’m also keen to try out some of the green-tinged numbers we’ve amassed below. As always, if you plan to indulge, do so safely and surely, and please have a great St. Patrick’s Day. — Photo: Getty

1. Belle Bulle (Belle de Brillet)

2. Cookies & Creamy Shamrock Shake

3. D.E.W. & A Brew

Created by Clodagh Mai O’Callaghan, Tullamore D.E.W. Irish Whiskey East Coast Ambassador

INGREDIENTS:
1 part Tullamore D.E.W. Irish Whiskey
1 par tbeer of your choice

METHOD: Combine all ingredients. Stir and pour

4. Fizz Cucumber and Basil (Cointreau)

Ingredients:
4 Basil leaves
2 oz Cointreau
3 slices of Fresh Cucumber
0.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients apart from soda water in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a chilled wine glass. Top with soda water. Garnish with a Cucumber slice and basil leaf.

5. Green Machine Gin & Juice

Ingredients:
1.25 oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
3 oz Green Juice

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Garnish: Mint Sprig

Preparation: Build 1.25 oz of Tanqueray London Dry Gin and 3 oz fresh Green Juice over ice in a rocks glass. Stir and garnish with a mint sprig. 

6. Green Tea Shots (Proper No Twelve Irish Whiskey)

Ingredients:
3 oz Proper No Twelve Irish Whiskey
3 oz Peach Schnapps
3 oz Sour Mix
Splash of Lemon Lime soda

Directions: Pour all ingredients into a Boston Shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into 4 shot glasses.

7. Irish Coffee (The Busker)

Ingredients:
35 ml The Busker Single Pot Still
20 ml Demerara Syrup (2:1)
120 ml Hot Coffee
Heavy Cream (lightly whipped)

Directions:
In a heated glass, combine Busker Single Pot Still Whiskey, Demerara Syrup, and Hot Coffee. Stir to combine and dissolve the syrup.Gently float lightly whipped cream on top by pouring it over the back of a spoon. Do not stir. Enjoy through the cream.

8. Irish Gin & Premium Tonic (Drumshanbo)

1.5 oz Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin
Top off with premium chilled tonic water
Garnish: Wedge of red grapefruit

Directions: Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add the gin and top off with premium chilled tonic water. Garnish with a thick wedge of red grapefruit.

9. Irish Gold Brew

Ingredients:
2 oz Irish brown butter-washed Roe & Co Irish Whiskey
0.75 oz Giffard Banane
1.25 oz Cold Brew 
3 drops Saline Solution (20%) or Pinch of Sea Salt
2 droppers Mole Bitters
Vanilla Milk or Coffee Creamer
Garnish: Shaved Chocolate
Brown Butter-Washed Roe & Co:
5 oz Brown Butter (Irish Butter)

Glassware: Irish Coffee Mug

Method:
Melt Irish butter in a pan over medium heat until browned (5-10 min). Remove from heat and combine with Roe & Co in a sealed container. Shake gently every 10 min for 1 hour. Freeze until butter solidifies, then strain through cheesecloth to remove solids. Add brown butter Roe & Co, Giffard Banane, cold brew, saline or pinch of salt, and bitters into a mixing glass. Stir and strain into a Glass Mug. Froth your favorite vanilla milk or creamer. Pour over the cocktail.

10. Irish Maid

11. Lime Margarita (Cutwater)

Cutwater has become one of my go-to RTD brands, and while the Lime Margarita might not fit some ideas of a St. Paddy’s Day cocktail, we’re including it for reasons that should make sense to most. 

Learn more here.

12. Lucky Azul

Ingredients:
2 oz Hpnotiq
1 oz blanco tequila
1 oz pineapple juice

Directions: Shake with ice and strain into a margarita glass with ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

13. Luck be a Clover

14. Matcha Martini

INGREDIENTS:
1.5 oz 21Seeds Valencia Orange Infused Tequila
1.5 oz Matcha
1 oz White Chocolate Liquor
0.5 oz Simple Syrup

DIRECTIONS:
Fill shaker with ingredients and shake for 30 seconds. Double strain and pour.

15. Mint Julep (Rémy Martin)

Ingredients:
2 oz Rémy Martin VSOP
Mint Sprigs
0.5 oz Sugar Syrup

Instructions:
Add eight mint sprigs and sugar syrup to a mixing glass. Add crushed ice and 2 oz of Rémy Martin VSOP

16. “Pot of Gold” Margarita

Ingredients:
1.5 oz DELEÓN Blanco
0.5 oz Vanilla Syrup
1 oz Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
3 Pineapple Chunks

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Garnish: Bruléed Pineapple Triangle and 2 Fronds

Method: Muddle pineapple chunks into the glass. In a shaker, combine DELEÓN Blanco, vanilla syrup and lime juice. Pour into a rocks glass, top with a sugar-coated pineapple triangle, and lightly torch before serving.

17. Scottish Coffee

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
1.5 oz Espresso or Cold Brew Coffee
0.75 oz Mr. Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur
0.25 oz Cinnamon Syrup

Glassware: Coupe or Irish Coffee Mug

Garnish: Floated with Salted Sweet Coconut Cream, Shaved Cinnamon

Preparation: Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake and strain into a chilled glass coupe or mug and garnish with shaved cinnamon using a microplane.

18. Shamrock & Roll Cocktail (Skrewball)

1.5 oz Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey  
.75 oz White Chocolate Liqueur
.75 oz Creme De Menthe
.5 oz Half and Half
Chocolate Syrup
Cocoa Powder

Directions: Garnish the rim of your glass with chocolate syrup and cocoa powder. Shake the rest of the ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into your garnished glass. 

19. Shamrock Sour

20. Spicy Verde (Casamigas)

21. Spring Bud (St-Rémy)

Ingredients:
1 oz St-Rémy Signature
4 oz Elderflower Syrup
0.7 oz Lemon Juice
0.7 oz Tonic
3 Cucumber Slices

Instructions:
Pour the St-Rémy Signature and the elderflower syrup in an ice-filled glass. Stir and top with tonic. Garnish with some cucumber slices and serve.

22. The Oldest Fashioned

23. The Perfect Muff & Tonic

Ingredients:
2 oz Muff Irish Gin
Top with premium Indian tonic
Garnish: Slice of orange and sprig of rosemary

Directions: Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add the gin and top off with premium chilled tonic water. Garnish with a slice of orange and sprig of rosemary.

24. Triple Triple Mint Sour

Ingredients:
2 Parts Jameson Triple Triple
3/4 parts lemon juice
3/4 parts simple syrup
Mint leaves and lemon wedge for garnish
 
How to mix:
Pour everything into a shaker with ice. Shake, pour, garnished with lemon and mint and enjoy!