Running a sponsored story can be dicey.

If you do it, you can find yourself swimming in free whiskey – but it might jeopardise your editorial integrity. If you don’t do it then your bathtub suddenly becomes whiskey-free – and that’s just not acceptable in my household. As such I’ve decided the only noble and yet whiskey-fueled thing to do would be to get a long list of cocktail recipes from Jameson and then delve into an epic cocktail crusade in which I make every recipe I can before publishing the top three that I can recommend.

And so, without further adieu, here’s a few Jameson Irish whiskey recipes to help you celebrate St Patrick’s Day:

Jamo Cranberry and Lime

• 30ml Jameson Irish whiskey
• 2 lime wedges
• 120ml cranberry juice

Build in a highball glass, fill with lots of ice and stir.

As simple as this drink sounds, it’s by far my favourite Jameson recipe. Quite frankly, I like it far more than I thought I would (I didn’t think cranberry and whiskey would work so well together), to the point where I kept making it day after day after work because it’s so quick and easy to make. After trying various cranberry juices (some of which leave an unpleasant aftertaste) I ended up preferring Bickfords.

Dublin Mule

• 60ml Jameson Irish whiskey
• 120ml ginger beer
• 4 lime wedges

Add ingredients to a tall glass, fill with ice, stir. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Ok, to be honest I’m also choosing recipes that are the easiest to make – after all, I am getting lazy in my old age. However, I do like this variation on the Moscow Mule and using Irish whiskey instead of vodka works well. After making a number of these, however, I and my trusty lab partner found we liked this drink even more if we squeezed some of the lime wedges into the drink rather than leaving them unsqueezed. As for the type of ginger beer: we ended up using Saxby’s, which has a great flavour.

Final Cut

• 60ml Jameson Irish whiskey
• 10ml elderflower cordial
• 10ml fresh lime juice
• 30ml cloudy apple juice

Shake ingredients with ice in a mixing glass and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lemongrass straw.

The hardest part in making this cocktail is finding the elderflower cordial. You can get it in Simon Johnson stores, but we ended up buying an organic one at Life Organic in Newtown. In some ways this cocktail reminded us of a whiskey sour, albeit one that has flowery and apple flavours, and we can imagine drinking this in an English garden rather than the cat-infested research kitchen in Bar Zine HQ.

 

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