St. Patrick’s Day is here! As I say every year, on St. Patrick’s Day almost everyone wishes they were Irish. In honor of the day, below you will find a recipe from Round Barn Distillery, for a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail as well as facts related to St. Patrick’s Day.

Shimmering Shamrock Cocktail

Product Feature: Round Barn Distillery’s Red Sky Rum

Ingredients

1 ½ oz Red Sky Rum (or a white rum)      

1 ½ oz Green Shimmering Simple

1 oz Cantaloupe Juice

½ oz Lime Juice

Directions
Combine all ingredients in pint glass over ice. Shake & strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a rainbow candy.

As you enjoy the Shimmering Shamrock cocktail, find out if you know the these St. Patrick’s Day facts?

1. St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland.
2. We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17 because it is believed that St. Patrick died on March 17 in the 5th century – perhaps 461 A.D.
3. St. Patrick was baptized with the name Maewyn Succat .
4. As a teenager St. Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates and taken to Northern Ireland. Several years later he escaped and was able to return to Britain where he was born
5. St. Patrick most likely did not drive the snakes out of Ireland. It is believed that no snakes were in Ireland at that time.
6. St. Patrick decided to return to Ireland to evangelize the people. He spent about 40 years in Ireland.
7. It is believed that St. Patrick used the 3- leaf clover to explain the Holy Trinity. However, no written evidence of this existed until the early 1700s. Over the many years, did the 3-leaf clover legend pass down verbally?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Kathy