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Irish Shots with Guinness, Baileys & Irish Whiskey

by Judy

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I thought today would be appropriate to post an Irish cocktail in it’s honor. Unfortunately, all of my attempts at creating an exciting, different cocktail fell a little flat. So I’m resorting to the famous Irish Shots with Guinness, Baileys & Irish Whiskey.

These shots, commonly known as Irish Car Bombs, has Guiness Stout, Bailey's Irish Cream and Irish WhiskeyI’m not much of a beer drinker anymore, but I can chug a beer with the best of them.  So a year or two ago I was in an Irish pub celebrating my friend Lyssa’s birthday and someone suggested we should do shots of Baileys and whiskey dropped in a Guinness beer.  I’m sure it was Lyssa’s suggestion, she’s always so much fun. I had never had one before and wasn’t really looking forward to it.  Mainly because I don’t really like dark beer. But it was her birthday after all, and I’m a good sport, so I took part in the shenanigans.  Oh, and I might just be a tad bit competitive sometimes.

You know what?  I liked it!  I think we even had two 🙂

Irish Shots with Guinness, Baileys & Irish Whiskey (also commonly known as Irish Car Bombs)So if you want to have a little fun, friendly competition this St. Patrick’s Day, gather your friends and do a round of Irish Shots with Guinness, Baileys & Irish Whiskey.  One word of advice, don’t drop the shot glass from too high up or you’ll have a bit of a mess (but it does make a really cool photo!).

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Ingredients

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  • 1 bottle Guinness Stout
  • 1/2 shot Baileys Irish Cream
  • 1/2 shot Irish Whiskey

Instructions

  1. Pour Guiness into beer glass to about 2/3rds full.
  2. Fill shot glass with half Baileys Irish Cream and half Irish whiskey*
  3. Drop shot glass into beer and chug!
  4. *If you like you can use more Baileys and just a splash of whiskey

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Update: This famous bar shot is well known by the name of Irish Car Bombs here in America.  After originally posting this recipe with that name, I learned the name is offensive to many people so I’ve renamed the post to be more sensitive.  It’s not my intent to offend anyone, I was just calling the drink what it is more commonly known as around here.

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Filed Under: Drink Something, Other Cocktails Tagged With: Bailey's Irish Cream, Guinness, St. Patrick's Day, beer, shots, whiskey

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