Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

Cocktail of the Week -- The Irish Christmas Edition

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The Irish (and those of us who are from Albion's Seed) rarely need an excuse to drink. But when we do have one, it makes us feel much better. And Christmas is one of those times. Holiday cheer abounds, as do a few annoying family members.

There's a fine line between drinking for enjoyment and drinking to escape these obnoxious kinfolk. We seem to not only walk that line, but often smash it with a rather large hammer. So here's a little cocktail to help you celebrate an Irish Christmas. It's strong, yet sweet and light -- as well as delightfully Christmas-colored. (Who says we only do green beer.) We like to call this installment of BaT's Cocktail of the Week: Drunk on Christmas.

Ingredients

3 oz. melon liqueur
2 oz. Irish whisky
1 oz. apple schnapps
4 oz. sweet and sour
Ice cubes
Maraschino cherries

Instructions

Mix and shake the whisky, melon liqueur and apple schnapps with ice. Fill whisky sour glass with ice. Strain mixture over ice in glass. Fill with sweet and sour. Garnish with several free floating maraschino cherries.

Nollaig faoi shean is faoi shonas duit! (Translation: A prosperous and happy Christmas to you!)

3 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 3:59 PM
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3 Comments:

My current friend at work told me how to make an Irish CarBomb(yes,it's a drink)-apparently it involves whisky,Guinness and a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream which is why you have to gulp that sucker down fast!

Hey,a fella named Brendon gave me this link to a very short holiday film,check it out:

http://www.anthologise.com/johnvslaura/

By lady t, at 5:05 AM

i loved the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and i love Capote as a writer... i recently got a copy of A Christmas Memory (which i LOVE), it was in a compilation with Breakfast, so i read breakfast too... i was so disappointed by Holly's use of the word "nigger"... :( ... especially because i have such jungle fever. I wish truman was alive to rewrite her - as having evolved beyond her racism.

By Aethlos, at 9:57 PM

"The Other Jake": Let me know what the think of them in the Old Country.

Lady: You are correct, that is a Car Bomb. Get a shot glass filled 50-50 with Bailey's and whiskey, then drop the shot glass into a mug of Guinness -- then kill it. (And cute film.)

Aethlos: Thanks for visiting; I'll check out your site tomorrow and show you some blogroll/link love. Capote was a genius as a writer; not-so-great a person.

By Jake McCafferty, at 9:14 PM