A Green Irish Cocktail With Something For Everybody
Everybody’s Irish cocktail may have a little something green for everybody in it, but this drink certainly isn’t going to be everybody’s cup of tea. Or even Irish for that matter.
By the time you add in chartreuse (a French herbal liqueur made by Carthusian Monks since the early 1700s), some mint liqueur (creme de menthe, French for mint cream, or possibly a Dutch or Italian spirit instead) and an olive (with origins in the Mediterranean and middle east optionally stuffed with a Spanish pimento) are you still going to be able to tell you’re drinking whisky from Ireland? Or, do you just add whatever’s on your bar’s bottom shelf and raise a toast to St. Paddy anyway?
Would recommend an Irish Coffee or a Rory O’More if you’re going for national pride, else some food coloring in your favorite beer if you’re just going green. However, if you’ll try anything once (that’s the spirit by the way), get the Everybody’s Irish cocktail over with so you can move on to a tastier tipple.
Initiation is good for life. No need to re-live the experience every year.
On the gack scale, Everybody’s Irish ranks somewhere between a briny booze back and gory gray matter. While a few favor the former, nobody likes the latter. You be the judge.
History Of The Everybody’s Irish Cocktail
This recipe dates back to at least 1930 in the Savoy Cocktail Book where author Harry Craddick notes:
The formula for the Everybody’s Irish drink was created to mark the occasion of Saint Patrick’s Day and was now in great demand during those festivities.
When suspended in the drink’s liquid, the green olive garnish looks like a gibbous moon. As in the new, crescent, quarter, gibbous and full moon phases of the lunar cycle. Waxing or waning wasn’t specified :D
How To Mix An Everybody’s Irish Cocktail Behind Your Bar At Home
Everybody’s Irish Cocktail Recipe:
2 oz Irish whisky (some say more)
6 dashes green chartreuse
3 dashes green mint liqueur
1 green olive
Pour the Irish whisky into a martini cocktail glass and add the herbal chartreuse & mint liqueurs. Stir and garnish with a green olive.
Everybody’s Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day
Bowser And Blue Belt Out A Wee Bit Of Boozy Brogue
The Montreal musical duo of Rick Blue, on the left, and George Bowser, perform the song Everybody’s Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day on guitar with a comedy twist to the tune. They liquored up the lyrics a bit (more) to make for some laughable limericks.
Drinking stout and arsing about sure adds some humor to the holiday. Here’s three sample verses and a chorus variation from their video:
Well everybody’s smiling (almost) as they march in the parade
And there’s something that they’re drinking and it isn’t lemonade (see above)
We’ll have some Irish whisky and we’ll eat some Irish grub
And we’ll have an Irish sing-a-long in an Irish pub
Well its Saint Patrick’s Sunday and we try to begin
With a traditional Irish breakfast of a beer and white puddin’
Whether you are black or white or even old and gray
Everybody’s Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day