St Patrick's Day...

I'm in lovely Toronto tonite... in an area of town called Markham... there's only one Irish bar within a 8 mile radius...but I did want to indulge in the holiday...

What's your drink?

There are many, many Irish whiskeys...
My particular favorite is Bushmills, (Black, if I can find it) in an Irish coffee... I'm not a stright whiskey or scotch drinker. But if you are, more power to ya.
So... Blended whiskeys:

* Avoca
* Baileys Irish Whiskey
* Ballygeary
* Brennans
* Bushmills White
* Bushmills Black
* Bushmills 1608
* Cassidy's
* Coleraine
* Clontarf
* Crested Ten
* Dunphys
* Erin's Isle
* Feckin Irish Whiskey
* Golden Irish
* Grace
* Hewitts
* Inishowen
* Jameson Irish Whiskey
* Jameson 12 Year Old
* Jameson Distillery Reserve
* Jameson Gold
* Kilbeggan
* Locke's
* Michael Collins Blend
* Midleton Very Rare
* Millars
* Murphy's
* Old Kilkenny
* O'Briens
* O'Neills
* Old Dublin
* Paddy
* Powers Gold Label
* Red Breast Blend
* Strangford Gold
* Tullamore Dew
* Wild Geese

Then we have single malts...
(They are still whiskeys, don't call it scotch... you'll get hit by a shillelagh.)

* Brogan's Legacy Irish Single Malt
* A Drop of the Irish
* Bushmills Ten Year Old
* Bushmills Sixteen Year Old
* Cadenhead's Peated Single Malt
* Clonmel Single Malt
* Connemara
* Erin Go Bragh
* Knappogue Castle
* Locke's Single Malt
* Merrys Single Malt
* Michael Collins Single Malt
* Preston Millenium Malt
* Shanahans
* Shannon Grain Single Malt
* Slaney Malt
* Suir Peated Malt
* Tyrconnell

Now, if you are like me and you really don't want the Irish whiskey, you might go for a Guinness...
Or even better-
A Black & Tan.
A black and tan is equal parts stout (Guinness or otherwise) and lighter colored ale, often a Bass Pale Ale or Harp's lager. Many an Irish barman will tell you that a layered black and tan is simply a Yank affectation and that in the homeland the two beers are simply poured together.

Also, you could indulge in the following...
A Black Velvet combines equal parts of champagne and stout.
a Poor Man's Black Velvet- substitute cider for champagne. Also called a Snakebite in the States. And it'd probably be followed up by a mondo hangover.
Take a pint of Guinness and drop a shot of Chambord into it and you have a Black Fog.
(This is really good!)
And the beerwench suggested a Purple Meany to me tonite...a black and tan with a shot of raspberry liqueur.
Another recipe would be Black Death... Stout and any Trappist Ale... But you know my affinity for Chimay, so I don't think I'd be able pull this one off...
From my travels in 1998 in Salt Lake City, our breakfast beverage- the Red Eye: Add a shot of tomato juice to any ale or lager, also known as Tomato Beer or a Red Rooster. If you add a splash of Tabasco, the drink becomes a Ruddy Mary.
From John Carbono in the Fox & Fiddle tonite- the Bee Sting: Dark beer and orange juice.
(Yuck!)
The Shandygaff (or a Shandy)- Beer and Ginger Beer or Ginger Ale (or Limeade according to Jenny, Beermaid at Fox & Fiddle.)
A scary combination, the Jamaican Night: Beer and an ounce of Kalua.
Another one in the dessert category...the Dark and Smooth. A stout mixed with port. One to finish the evening with.

In truth, I should have made this post earlier in the week so you could be prepared for tonite's festivities...

So... What's your poison?