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Irish

Classic/vintage · Nightcap/sipping · Saint Patrick's Day

4.2 48 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey
1/24 oz Orange Curaçao
1/24 oz Maraschino liqueur
1 dash Absinthe
1 dash Boker's style bitters

How to make

Serve in a nick & nora glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist (discarded) and Fragata Green Olive.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
  2. 6 Garnish with skewered olive.

Flavour profile

31.5% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 108 calories

History

Stir well and strain into an icy glass for a subtly flavoured whiskey cocktail, perfect to conclude an evening.

This cocktail is adapted from Harry Johnson's 1900 Bartenders' Manual. IRISH COCKTAIL. In a large bar glass, combine the following ingredients: Fill up a glass with shaved ice; 2 or 3 dashes of absinthe; 1 dash of maraschino; 1 dash of curaçoa; 2 dashes of bitters (Boker's genuine only); 1 wineglassful of Irish whiskey; Stir well with a spoon, then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a medium-sized olive and a squeeze of lemon peel on top before serving. The Irish Cocktail is also documented in: - Harry MacElhone's 1927 Barflies and Cocktails, where it is garnished with a "medium-sized olive and squeeze lemon peel on top". - Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book, which specifies a garnish of an "olive and squeeze orange peel on top". - Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 Official Mixer's Manual, also featuring an "olive and squeeze orange peel on top" as the garnish.

Created by Harry Johnson