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Irish Margarita Recipe: Green Cocktail for St Patrick's Day

Published: Mar 10, 2017 · Updated: Apr 6, 2025 by Marye

Here's the perfect Irish margarita recipe for St. Patrick's Day! Fruity and sweet, this green cocktail will win you over with its tropical flavor, emerald green color and gold sugar rim. Forget the green beer!
Total time for the recipe to be finished.Total Time 5 minutes minutes
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Green margarita in a glass with a gold rim and lime garnish.
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You'll find plenty more of my favorite St. Patricks Day drinks here.

This recipe is meant for people over 21 years old. Please drink responsibly.

Enjoy this fruity Irish Margarita Cocktail Recipe for St Paddy's day! From RestlessChipotle.com
Table of Contents
  • 🗝️ Key takeaways
  • 🧾 Ingredients
  • 📚 Related recipes
  • Equipment
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 💬 Comments

🗝️ Key takeaways

This is so good!

This bright, emerald green margarita is beautiful and so festive with the gold sugar rim! It tastes like a grown up Hawaiian punch!

You know, being from Texas and all, a margarita recipe tends to be my first go to when I want to mix up some kind of cocktail. Irish whiskey for St. Pat's day and tequila because you can't have a margarita without it.

I decided to use gold sugar crystals around the rim as a nod to any leprechauns that might be lurking around . I need all the good luck I can get.

🧾 Ingredients

It's the combination of liquids in this drink that give it the vibrant color. To maintain the color don't make any changes.

  • Reposado tequila - this is the darker tequila not the "white"
  • Irish whiskey ( I use Jameson)
  • Blue curacao
  • Peach schnapps
  • Aperol
  • Pineapple juice
  • Lime juice
  • Shaved ice - you can just run the ice through your blender
  • Lime
  • Gold sugar crystals
  • Corn syrup - helps the sugar to stick

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below. Click on the image to see it full size.

  1. Carefully spread corn syrup on the rims of 2 margarita glasses
  2. Pour the gold sugar crystals out on a plate.
  3. Run the rims of the glasses through the sugar crystals to coat.
  4. Use a big cookie scoop add a rounded scoop of crushed ice to each of the glasses.
  5. Add the tequila, curacao, schnapps, whiskey, Aperol, and juices to a shaker filled with ice.
  6. Shake for a few seconds.
  7. Strain half into each glass.
  8. Garnish with a round of lime.
  • Tequila doesn't freeze so keep it in the freezer. Margaritas are best very cold.
  • Shake vigorously in an ice filled shaker for about a minute. The more air bubbles you add to the drink the better it will taste.
  • Fresh lime juice is much more flavorful than bottled.
  • Use colored sugar crystals mixed with lime zest to make the rims extra special.

📚 Related recipes

Here are some more of my favorite St. Patrick's Day recipes.

  • The Irish Temper is made with cream, spiced rum, and espresso topped with whipped cream, and garnished with a little cinnamon. It's a delicious way to linger over brunch or contemplate life at the end of the day.
  • Hammered Hulk is another bright green drink with melon and coconut flavors.
  • Irish Redhead is a sparkly pinkish drink that is light and refreshing made with lemon, lime, grenadine, and Irish whiskey.

Equipment

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Margarita glasses are so pretty! They've even got a green tint.

Nearly everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day! It's a fun little holiday that probably gets the most of its American attention because it's an excuse to drink. Not sure how that works considering St. Patrick is a saint and all but I'm willing to go along with it.

I'm guessing St Patrick's day is one of the main reasons many people don't give up alcohol for Lent.

I think this is such a festive cocktail with the gold sugar crystal rim! You might also like my Irish Temper Cocktail - it's like Irish Coffee's wild cousin.

Closeup of a green margarita in a glass with gold sugar crystals.
A green margarita made with Irish whiskey is perfect for St. Patrick's Day.

If you're into tropical flavored cocktails you'll love this green cocktail. The pineapple gives a nice softness to the tequila and Irish whiskey and blends in with the coconutty blue curacao and the peach.

Aperol can be bitter but all of the sweetness from the juice keeps this cocktail well balanced and delicious.

Restless Chipotle Irish Margarita has been featured in:

  • Good Housekeeping
  • Country Living

📖 Recipe

Green margarita in a glass with a gold rim and lime garnish.

Irish Margarita Recipe

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Here's the perfect Irish margarita recipe for St. Patrick's Day! Fruity and sweet, this green cocktail will win you over with its tropical flavor, emerald green color and gold sugar rim. Forget the green beer!
Course Beverage - Cocktail
Cuisine Holiday
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes minutes
Servings:2
Calories:418
Author:Marye Audet-White

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces reposado tequila
  • 2 ounces blue curacao
  • 2 ounces peach schnapps
  • 1 ounce Irish whiskey
  • 1 ounce Aperol
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 8-12 ounces pineapple juice, depends on personal taste
  • 2 rounds lime, for garnish
  • Gold sugar crystals, for rim
  • Corn syrup, for rim
  • 1 cup shaved ice, Blend 2 cups ice in the blender until it's like snow

Instructions

  • Carefully spread corn syrup on the rims of 2 margarita glasses
  • Pour the gold sugar crystals out on a plate.
  • Run the rims of the glasses through the sugar crystals to coat.
  • Use a big cookie scoop add a rounded scoop of ice to each of the glasses.
  • Add the tequila, curacao, schnapps, whiskey, Aperol, and juices to a shaker filled with ice.
  • Shake for a few seconds.
  • Pour half into each glass.
  • Garnish with a round of lime.

Notes

  • Tequila doesn't freeze so keep it in the freezer. Margaritas are best very cold.
  • Shake vigorously in an ice filled shaker for about a minute. The more air bubbles you add to the drink the better it will taste.
  • Fresh lime juice is much more flavorful than bottled.
  • Use colored sugar crystals mixed with lime zest to make the rims extra special.

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 418kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 147mg | Sugar: 27g | Vitamin C: 15.6mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 0.4mg

Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.

Originally published March 10, 2017. Last updated January 2021 for enhanced reader experience.

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  1. Cindy says

    January 31, 2022 at 5:39 am

    5 stars
    I can't stand the smell or taste of whiskey but, this recipe, I can't taste whiskey like I thot. This is so good.

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