St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails Beyond Green Beer

Into The Barchive · Mar 12, 2026 · 35m · transcript

This week on Into the Barchive, Dr. Blake Jones and Tim Wright take on St. Patrick’s Day without the green beer, gimmicks, or Irish car bombs. Instead, they dig into the real history behind the holiday and build two cocktails that reflect two very different sides of Irish and Irish-American drinking culture.

First up is the Tipperary, a historic Irish whiskey cocktail with roots in the early 20th century and a direct connection to World War I era Irish identity. Built with single pot still Irish whiskey, sweet vermouth, green Chartreuse, bitters, and a touch of absinthe, it is a rich…