![]() ![]() In this recipe, we’ve replaced the sour mix and soda with lemon and cherry juice. You may have heard of a Green Tea Shot, which is made with a combination of Jameson Irish Whiskey, peach schnapps, sour mix and a splash of lemon-lime soda. It’s stunning coral color, reminiscent of a beautiful summer sunset, also makes this drink ideal for the warmer seasons. This Irish Sunset cocktail recipe was developed by Daryl Harris and tested by both of us.Īn Irish Sunset cocktail, loosely inspired by the Irish Gold cocktail, is the perfect addition to St. See our Disclosure Statement for more information. Patrick’s Day as it is for a beautiful summer day or evening. It’s simple to make and is equally as perfect for St. It’s terrific.An Irish Sunset cocktail is made from a delicious blend of Jameson Irish Whiskey, peach schnapps and fruit juice. This is sufficiently different from the original that I’m not sure it qualifies as canon, but if you have the stuff, go ahead and make it. ![]() ![]() oloroso sherry, three dashes of Angostura Bitters, and grated nutmeg on top. In their Irish whiskey-focused cocktail book Paddy Drinks, the good people behind the Dead Rabbit in NYC have a take on the Cameron’s Kick that uses not only smoky single malt scotch and a pot-still Irish whiskey, but also includes 0.75 oz. Other ingredients: I only mention this because when one of the best bars in the world does a spin on the cocktail at hand, it’s good to know about it. But if you’re dealing with some kind of compromise-if you can’t find the right orgeat, or if you’re using a whiskey you’re less than enthusiastic about-a dash of bitters will compensate for all those shortcomings, making a totally delicious if slightly less memorable drink. My rule is this: If you have a great, rich, well-aged Irish Whiskey and the right kind of orgeat, bitters clouds up the clarity of the drink, and does not make it better. Make sure to get the nuttier, richer side of orgeat, the one that actually tastes like almonds as opposed to marzipan, and probably comes from a craftier producer: Liber & Co., Small Hands Foods, and Liquid Alchemist are all great options in my area, and there are much more.Īngostura Bitters: It’s not traditional, but bitters works in this drink. Weak orgeat makes this dull, and weak orgeat plus a less-flavorful blended whiskey will make you shake your first at me for wasting your time with such a boring drink. The more common, less flavorful Irish whiskeys (Jameson, Bushmills, Tullamore D.E.W.) are less good but still quite good, and worth using in this drink. Anything cask finished will be accentuated to beautiful effect, so those are fun, but my favorites from my many experiments were the Pot Still Irish whiskeys- Redbreast 12 is the standard bearer, and Power’s Pot Still line was incredible as well-which offer all the orchard fruit clarity you could ever hope for. Irish Whiskey: One thing this cocktail doesn’t like is too much malt earthiness (one of the reasons it’s better without scotch), so while there are beautiful and expressive single malt Irish whiskeys these days, I wouldn’t use them here. Patrick’s Day, try out the Cameron’s Kick, but just go ahead and use all Irish whiskey, and kick the scotch back out. Together the flavor is muddled, slightly discordant, but alone the Irish whiskey gets to sing, its apples and pears and slight malt and gentle touch a perfect foil to the zesty front palate of the lemon and the deep finish of the almonds. What I do know is that when you make two Cameron’s Kicks side-by-side-one the classic recipe, and the other just with 100 percent Irish whiskey-the former is good and the latter is great. Perhaps it was higher proof, or perhaps it was smoky and he thought smoke worked better than I do. MacElhone was from Scotland, and “Cameron” is a Scottish name, and it feels to me like kick from Cameron was kicking the Irish whiskey aside and including scotch in the first place (I have no evidence for this at all, but it’s my guess). If you’ll permit me to speculate and offer a recommendation: My guess is this started as an Irish whiskey drink. So what is it, a sherry finish? A slightly increased maltiness? What gives? That would make perfect sense, but then you try it, and realize no, smoke doesn’t fold into this drink very well-it doesn’t clash exactly, but it’s certainly not doing it any favors. “A ha!” you might say, “it must be smoke!” Perhaps MacElhone meant for a smoky scotch to be tempered by the Irish whiskey, the way that tequila tempers the smoke of mezcal in an Oaxaca Old Fashioned. ![]()
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