Monday may be the official date of St. Patrick's Day, but celebrations will be going on all weekend. And to get yours going, I'll be posting some drinks to help you get your Irish up.

Here are three from thebar.com, that include traditional ingredients straight from the Emerald Isle. Sláinte!
(For more recipes go to www.thebar.com)

Guinness Shandy
3/4 pint Guinness Draught
1/4 pint Lemon-lime soda

Add Guinness Draught beer to a pint glass and top off with lemon-lime soda.


Baileys Minty Shamrock
2 oz Baileys Mint Chocolate Irish Cream
1/2 oz Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with mint and chocolate swizzle stick.


Bushmills Anniversary Cocktail
(Celebrating 400 years of whiskey making in the Bushmills distillery)
1 1/2 oz Bushmills Original Irish Whiskey
1 oz Lemon juice
1 oz Honey syrup (equal parts honey and water)
2 dashes Aromatic bitters

Shake all ingredients (except bitters) with ice. Serve up with no garnish.
Float bitters on top.