5 Green Cocktails Perfect for St. Patrick's Day • The Spirited Traveler

St. Patrick’s Day is almost here! (It’s tomorrow, to be exact) so I thought I’d make green this month’s color cocktail theme! Cos, why not? These 5 green cocktails aren’t just good for your St. Patty’s Day celebration, but they’re also good anytime you need a green cocktail for a special occasion or event.

Now, if you’re looking for some authentic Irish cocktails (as the ones I’ve featured today are most definitely not 😀 ), I got you covered! Check out my Shamrocks & Shenanigans post where I have 5 authentic Irish cocktail recipes for you. They’re not green, but they are delicious.

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Mermaid Mimosa

I found this delightful cocktail on Delish. It’s very simple, with a really cool color change. I’ve been on a color change kick since my Tickled Pink cocktails feature from last month. 😉

For this one, you have to follow the steps exactly in order to produce the blue to green color change effect.

Ingredients

1 oz Midori
1 oz Blue Curacao
Prosecco
Pineapple juice

Directions

Add Midori to glass
Add in as much pineapple juice as you’d like (I used about 3 oz)
Top off with as much Prosecco as you’d like (I used about 3 oz)
Pour 1 oz of blue curaçao on top and watch it settle to the bottom, turning the mimosa green
Give it a stir for complete color uniformity, if you wish
Enjoy!

Pot of Gold Mimosa

Here’s another fun mimosa with a color layering/changing effect that I found courtesy of Champagne & Coconuts. And once again, you need to follow the directions in order so you get the color effect.

Ingredients

2 oz orange juice
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz blue curaçao
Prosecco

Directions

Add OJ & vodka to your glass
Add in as much Prosecco as you like (I went with a solid 4-5 oz here) 🙂
Pour in blue curaçao and watch the color show

Once it settles, you get this very nice yellow to green color variant.

Emerald Lady

I found this recipe courtesy of Flour on my Face. It’s very reminiscent of a pina coloda, I’m getting tons of island vibes from this one.

Ingredients

1 oz rum
1.5 oz Midori
2 oz Pineapple juice
3/4 oz OJ
1 oz cream of coconut
1 oz blood orange Pellegrino–
- the original recipe calls for club soda, but you know my stance on using club soda in cocktails
Crushed ice (I didn’t use any ice in my version)

Directions

Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth
Pour into your favorite glass, add a tiny umbrella if you’d like, & enjoy your mental vacay to the islands

Note: The original recipe calls for a few drops of green food coloring. I didn’t want to use any so I added a tad more Midori + a little bit of blue curaçao for a stronger green color.

Emerald Sunrise

For all my tequila lovers out there, I found this green cocktail courtesy of The Good Hearted Woman. I’m not the biggest tequila fan, cos……I’ll just leave that story for another day. However, I found this cocktail to be refreshing and a nice change up from a margarita if you’re in the mood for a tequila based cocktail.

Ingredients

1.5 oz tequila
1.5 oz blue curaçao
4-6 oz of OJ

Directions

Add ice, tequila, and blue curaçao to your glass. Stir well
Add in OJ, stir again
Enjoy

Midsummer Gimlet

Okay, so I couldn’t do a green cocktail feature and not throw in my own recipe. 🙂 Gimlets are one of my fav cocktails, so I did a spin on my gimlet recipe (you can find it here). In search of something light and springy, I opted to go with a special Hendrick’s blend, their Midsummer Solstice gin. It’s a delightfully floral gin and I can’t wait to see what all I can create with it.

Ingredients

2 oz Hendrick’s Midsummer Solstice
1 oz St. Germain
1/2 oz of lime juice
1/2 oz (or so) of cucumber juice
a splash of Midori

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well to combine
Pour into a martini glass, or whatever you have on hand, and enjoy

Now, go out and get your celebration started on the right foot with these lovely green cocktails! If you’ve enjoyed these recipes and suggestions, please be sure to check out the other entries in my monthly Color Cocktails Series: