Happy St. Patrick's Day! Eugene O'Neill's favorite cocktail

For our literary St. Patrick’s Day cocktail needs (yes, that’s a real need), we must look to the great drinkers of the Irish-American lit tradition. In fact, I didn’t have to look very far, because a favorite of Eugene O’Neill’s is featured in our very own Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers: A Gibson, which we’ve further modified (green food coloring, anyone?) to make appropriate for St. Patty’s Day.

Whatever the original recipe, a Gibson is now nothing more than a dry Martini garnished with cocktail onions. Drinking at the bar of the Garden Hotel in New York, O’Neill often added a splash of club soda to his, but we don’t recommend that. As the stories make clear, when it comes to experimenting with alcohol, O’Neill is not a man to imitate.

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GIBSON

2 1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. dry vermouth
2 or 3 cocktail onions
green food coloring (until appropriately gross-looking to fit the holiday)

Pour gin and dry vermouth into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into  a chilled cocktail glass. Dye it green. Garnish with cocktail onions.

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4 comments on “Happy St. Patrick's Day! Eugene O'Neill's favorite cocktail

  1. Excellent!

  2. This looks amazing! Another one of my all time favorites…. Luck of the Soju
    1.5 TY KU Soju
    1 oz Apple Schnapps
    Splash of Sprite
    So delicious, and green 🙂

  3. I like but it was a little dry… i was searching other ones and i found this really good cocktail called kiss me mijito its made with ty ku . it was so good check it out

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