Irish Sidecar

IRISH SIDECAR: Instead of mixing your Sidecar cocktail with cognac or brandy, celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day or any day by substituting with Irish Whiskey. Irish whiskey is noted for being light and smooth because it’s often triple distilled and is made with unmalted barley. For this reason, Irish whiskey is a great mixer whiskey and works particularly well in the Sidecar formula. It’s hard not to like a drink when you’re faced with a sugar-rimmed coupe glass.

Requirements: Irish Whiskey (Jameson preferred), Cointreau, lemon juice, simple syrup, sugar for glass rim

• 2 oz. (or parts) Irish whiskey
• .75 oz. (or parts) Cointreau
• .75 oz. (or parts) fresh lemon juice
• .25 oz. (or parts) simple syrup
• powdered sugar for rim

Rim a chilled coupe glass with water or lemon juice and dip the rim onto powdered sugar to create a sugar crust. Combine ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake vigorously and strain into the coupe glass.

Comments: Within a day of steel-cut Irish oatmeal, toasted Irish soda bread, corn beef & cabbage, Guinness beer, funny green hats and Irish stew — end it with an Irish Sidecar. But really, it’s an anytime cocktail when a lighter Sidecar cocktail fits the bill.

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