Irish Drinks
You’ll find recipes for delicious Irish dishes (ooh, that rhymes!) in the food corner of Irish Buzz. But, lest we ignore the hefty elephant in the corner, we’ll also show you how to make great Irish drinks. As with the other sections, there’s also a little bit of Irish history thrown in, drawing out the cultural context of your imbibing – all the better to wet your whistle! A good example being our exploration of that dark obsession they call porter beer.
On the practical front, we will show you how to conjure up an Irish dark beer of your own, but also lots of other superb Irish drinks. Add a bit of sparkle to your St. Patrick’s Day bash with a selection from our Irish shots section, such as the ever bright and glistening tricolor layer shot that looks just like Ireland’s flag. Or slurp your way through the holidays with that unique creature of honey and Irish whiskey made, Irish Buzz’s official spiked eggnog recipe. Recipe for classics like the original Irish coffee and other great Irish mixed drinks also make an appearance.
Irish Beer
Perhaps you even feel like getting the carboy out and brewing up your own Irish beer, washing down those traditional food creations you’ve been whipping up in the kitchen. Homebrewing is still on the march across the board and we’ll bring you recipes for making your own in-house versions of great Irish beer.
As our recipe database expands, we’ll include some lesser-known brews. The Irish pub is a dynamic and diversified place these days, riding the craft beer wave of recent decades and the great tastes emerging will be covered. So too will brews that up until now have only been known inside Ireland, or even in just a particular region of the country.
With the increased demand for small batch brewing, ‘locals only’ microbrews are now reaching a wider Irish audience, but things of such beauty should be shared with the world. This is where we come in. And don’t worry if you’ve never brewed before, for the unacquainted there’ll be a step-by-step guide to making your own beer, covering all the practicalities involved. Our recipes and know-how will soon have you enjoying the best of Irish far from the pub.
We’ll do the same for the home distiller, with precise recipes and straightforward advice on the processes and equipment required. Under our tutelage, you’ll soon be getting calls at midnight from friends desperate for just another taste of that homemade whiskey you let them in on. Or ginheads who just haven’t been able to get that dry smack out of their mouth since Saturday night.
Poteen & Irish Liqour
We even cover poteen, that most sensationally arousing of Irish liquors, so potent it has spent most of its history either locked up on Erin’s Irish Isle or banned by the British Crown. In typical Irish Buzz fashion, we not only explore the checkered history of this (in)famous Irish drink but serve up a straightforward recipe for moonshine so that you can make your own.
Best get that bath of yours to scrub up, there’s dashing Irish moonshine coming its way!
Our directions for making potcheen are just the first in a line of recipes for top-class Irish liqour. So do stay tuned. And don’t worry if you’ve never distilled before, we lay everything out plain and simple so that even the novice can cut their teeth. There is way too much trifling about finesses and ‘mental masturbation’ when it comes to distilling or brewing your own, hot air that you don’t necessarily need to whip up a good bevvy. Brass tacks are usually shiny.
Alcohol-free Irish drinks
While our promise is always to bring you the best of Irish alcohol, we want to be clear from the off: contrary to rampant stereotyping, Ireland isn’t just about booze. Honest! With this in mind, we also bring you concise recipes for those in search of their fix of the alcohol-free.
So expect to find recipes for delectable refreshments that come minus the alcohol. Ireland has a number of seriously decent lemonades we’re particularly itching to turn our adequately-washed-in-preparation-for-creation hand to.
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