Scotch: St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated wherever two or three Irish natives are gathered this Saturday, so why not try the following recipes if you are Irish or when you gather to watch the ICC Cricket World Cup match?

Considered by many to be the finest whiskey in the world, scotch is produced only in Scotland. Distilled from fermented cereal grains, virtually all commercially available scotches are blends of several types and distillations. A high proportion of grain whiskey from a patent still is blended with a quantity of full-flavoured malt whiskey. Scotch malt whiskey has a unique, smoky quality due primarily to the peat that is used to dry the malted barley.

Mix it up with whiskey!

Colleen

1 and half oz Johnnie

Walker Scotch Whiskey

1 oz Irish Mist

Half oz Cointreau

1 tsp fresh lemon juice

Method

Place all ingredients in shaker with four to five ice cubes. Cover and shake briskly. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Johnnie Walker Irish Whiskey Cream

1 cup heavy cream

1 can sweetened condensed milk

3 large eggs, lightly beaten

Half tsp. coconut extract

1 cup Johnnie Walker Scotch Whiskey

Method

In a bowl whisk together ingredients in the order given, cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight. Serve in chilled punch cups or small old-fashioned glasses. Makes 8 4oz servings.

Serves 8

Kerry Cooler

2 oz Johnnie Walker Scotch Whiskey

1 oz dry sherry

Half oz (1 tbs) almond extract

or orgeat syrup

1 oz (2 tbs) lemon juice

Chilled club soda

Slice of lemon

method

Shake whiskey, sherry, orgeat syrup or almond extract and lemon juice with ice. Strain into a chilled Collins glass over ice cubes, top with soda and garnish with lemon slice.

Paddy Cocktail

1 half oz Johnnie Walker

Scotch Whiskey

1 and a half oz sweet vermouth

1 dash Angostura bitters

method

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

(Excerpt and recipes from the International Bartender's Guide, ? 2002, Gramercy Books, New York)