Green St. Patrick's Day Drinks: Easy Cocktail Recipes For March 17

St. Patrick’s Day isn’t the same without a green drink in your hand, and while bars might not be an option on March 17, it’s easy to make a green cocktail at home. These easy recipes are simple, fun and delicious—and they look picture-perfect.

Shimmering Shamrock

• 1 ½ oz Red Sky Rum (or a white rum)
• 1 ½ oz Green Shimmering Simple Syrup
• 1 oz Cantaloupe Juice
• ½ oz Lime Juice

For the shimmering syrup, boil 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water with some Green Brew Glitter. Build this easy cocktail by combining all the ingredients in a shaker or pint glass filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a rainbow candy.

Plata Margarita

• 1 1/2 parts Hornitos Plata Tequila
• 1 1/2 parts agave syrup
• 3 parts lime juice

Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake. Strain into a margarita glass. Garnish your Plata Margarita cocktail with a lime wedge and serve. Salt rim optional.

Irish Egg Cream (created by mixologist Meaghan Dorman)

• 1 oz Baileys Original Irish Cream
• 1 1/2 oz Chocolate Milk
• 1 1/2 oz Seltzer Water
• Whipped Cream and Green Mini Doughnut for Garnish

Combine Baileys Original and chocolate milk in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Pour seltzer water into the bottom of a glass. Strain the Baileys and milk from the shaker on top of seltzer. Garnish with whipped cream and doughnut with some green sprinkles for a festive touch.

Sage Lime Smash

• 2 parts Jose Cuervo Tradicional Reposado
• 1 tsp agave syrup
• 1/2 lime, quartered
• 3-4 sage leaves
• Lime for garnish

​In a shaker, add the cut lime, sage leaves, and agave syrup. Muddle ingredients then add Jose Cuervo Tradicional Reposado and ice. Strain into glasses over ice, and garnish with a lime wedge and sage leaf.

Spruce Tip Collins (created LyAnna Sanabria)

• 1.5 oz Bimini Overproof Gin
• 1 oz Spruce Tip Syrup
• 1 oz lemon juice

In a glass filled with ice, add ingredients and top with soda water. Garnish with a spruce tip or a lemon wheel.

Feeling Lucky (Green) Bloody Mary

• 2 oz. Seagram’s 100 Proof Vodka
• 1⁄2 oz. Puréed Spinach
• 1⁄2 oz. Green Tomato Juice
• 1⁄2 oz. Carrot Juice
• 1⁄2 oz. Lemon Juice
• 1⁄2 oz. Aloe Vera Juice
• 1⁄2 tsp. Minced Garlic
• Cubed Ice

Rim a highball glass with celery salt and fill the glass with ice. Combine all ingredients in the glass over the ice and stir with a bar spoon. Garnish with a celery stalk, sliced carrot, parsley, cucumber and lemon rounds and an edible flower.

Proper Hopper

• 1 oz Proper No. Twelve
• .5 oz Creme de Cacao
• .5 oz Creme de Menthe
• 1 oz Heavy Cream

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain over crushed ice. Garnish with chocolate shavings and/or Mint Spring.

Herbal Crisp (created by Manny Hinojosa)

• 1 1/2 oz Bacardi Superior Rum
• 1/2 oz Absinthe
• 1 oz The Perfect Purée Green Apple Puree, thawed
• 1/4 oz simple syrup
• Champagne or Prosecco
• Lime wedge (for garnish)
• Lemon zest (for garnish)

In a mixing glass filled with ice, add Bacardi, Absinthe, Green Apple puree, simple syrup, and ice. Shake and strain into a champagne glass. Top with Prosecco or Champagne. Garnish with a lime wedge and lemon zest.