Foynes’ Red Eye
Created by Misty Kalkofen, a bartender at Green Street in Cambridge, Mass., as a homage to the Irish Coffee, which orginated at the Foynes Airport in Limerick, Ireland.
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Ingredients:
- 1 oz Redbreast Irish Whisky
- 3/4 oz Amara Averna
- 1/2 oz heavy cream
- 1 oz Guinness Simple Syrup*
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- coffee bean
Preparation:
Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker 2/3 filled with ice. Strain into a chilled martini or coupe glass. Top with grated bits of coffee bean.
Guinness Simple Syrup
Add a can of Guinness to a sauce pan over medium heat for 10-12 minutes, add 8 ounces of Demerara sugar and set aside to cool. Refrigerate, the Guinness syrup should last for a couple of weeks.
via Bon Appetit
Irish Manhattan
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 oz Bushmills Irish Whisky
- 1 1/2 oz Noily Pratt Sweet Vermouth
- 3-4 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 can of Guinness
Preparation:
Combine all the whisky, sweet vermouth in a mixing glass 2/3 full of ice. Add the bitters, stir the contents. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Pour the can of Guinness into a beer glass, as the beer settles, scoop the foam and carefully add it to the martini glass.
Port o’ Call Cocktail
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Guinness
- 2 1/2 oz Cognac
- 1 oz St-Germain
- 1/2 oz Crème de Cacao
- 4 dashes Angostura bitters
- Orange zest
Preparation:
Combine all the ingredients in a mixing glass 2/3 full of ice. Stir gently and strain into a chilled martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a twist of orange zest.
Guinness Ice Cream Float
Ingredients:
- 1 can of Guinness
- 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream
- Chocolate syrup
- 1 oz of Baileys
- Whipped Cream
- Chocolate Sprinkles
Preparation:
Add 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream to a beer glass. Pour in chocolate syrup and Baileys. Add Guinness and stop with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.
Irish Flag Shooter
Ingredients:
- 3/4 oz Creme de Menthe
- 3/4 oz Baileys
- 3/4 oz Grand Marnier
Preparation:
Add the Creme de Menthe to a shot glass. Pour the Baileys over a spoon to create the second layer and repeat with the Grand Marnier to create the green, white and orange colours of the Irish flag.
Love Potions – Ball of Fire
If this cinnamony, spicy cocktail doesn’t set your passions on fire, we don’t know what will.
This spicy, hot Valentine’s Day cocktail is from the chapter “Spicing Things Up” in our new Madtini book Love Potions: 50 Cupid Approved Cocktails For Valentine’s Day available at Amazon.
A mix of cinnamon schnapps, Southern Comfort, Tabasco Sauce and a cinnamon schnapps soaked cherry bring both spicy heat and southern sweet to the Ball of Fire. This will surely start the fires of love.
BALL OF FIRE
Glass: Martini glass
1 oz/30 ml Southern Comfort
3 oz/90 ml Cinnamon Schnapps
1 dash Tabasco Sauce
1 Cherry
Soak cherry in 1 oz of Cinnamon Schnapps in bottom of a martini glass for 5 minutes. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over cherry.
Southside Royale Champagne Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
- Champagne, or sparkling wine
- Sprig of mint
Preparation
Add the gin, simple syrup and lime juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake then strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne and garnish with a sprig of mint.
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