{"id":15603,"date":"2014-03-03T02:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15603"},"modified":"2014-03-03T02:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T10:04:45","slug":"green-drinks-for-the-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/green-drinks-for-the-irish\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Drinks for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/coweek.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Emerald Isle shown with an assortment of beers<\/p>\n<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is just around the bend and though the bars will be serving plenty of Guinness Stout and an assortment of beers, the green drinks surge in popularity on the weekend before (March 14-16) and Monday, March 17. Three types of liquor are associated with Ireland and are of Irish origin&#8211;Irish Whiskey, Poitin and Stout. A National Retail Federation survey found that 8 in 10 Americans will wear green, and ages 25 to 44 will spend the most on food, beverages and other items, averaging $41.62.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are a few cocktail recipes in honor of the Irish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emerald Isle:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a01 part Gin; \u00a01 tsp Green Cr\u00e8me de menthe; \u00a02 dashes bitters.\u00a0Pour into \u00a0ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake well, then strain into a chilled martini glass. \u00a0Color: Green<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucky Leprechaun:<\/strong>1 part Midori Melon Liqueur; 1 part Coconut Rum; 6 parts pineapple juice; \u00a0lime wedge for garnish. \u00a0Pour ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake briefly, then pour in a tall glass with ice. \u00a0Color: Green<\/li>\n<li><strong>An Bodhran<\/strong>: \u00a01.25 oz Bushmills Irish Whiskey; \u00a0.5 oz Port; \u00a01 tsp Maple sugar; \u00a01 Egg; \u00a0Mint bitters for garnish. \u00a0Add ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice, shake heavily for about a minute and strain into a chilled coupe glass.\u00a0 Garnish with three drops of mint bitters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irish Coffee<\/strong> (great after a meal): \u00a01.5 oz Jameson Irish Whiskey; \u00a01 oz Brown sugar syrup (one part brown sugar, one part water); \u00a0Fresh brewed coffee; \u00a0unsweetened cream, lightly whipped. \u00a0Add the whiskey and syrup to an Irish Coffee glass and pour coffee into the mixture. Top with one inch of whipped cream.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-dmv-reducing-drunk-driving\/\">drunk driving statistics<\/a> as a reminder to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Emerald Isle shown with an assortment of beers St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is just around the bend and though the bars will be serving plenty of Guinness Stout and an assortment of beers, the green drinks surge in popularity on the weekend before (March 14-16) and Monday, March 17. Three types of liquor are associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}