Cocktails with Crème de Menthe green
Crème de menthe green is a sweet, mint-flavoured liqueur — the bright-green coloured version of a product also sold colourless as 'white'.
ABV25%
Taste profile
Cool, penetrating peppermint aroma leads into a markedly sweet, syrupy body with a clean cooling finish.
How it's used
Poured in small measures as a sweet, flavour-defining modifier, it supplies both cooling mint character and a vivid green hue; because it is heavily sweetened, it is dosed sparingly and stirred or shaken into the build rather than used as a base.
Substitutes for Crème de Menthe green
Another mint liqueur can stand in where mint is the point, though the sweetness may need rebalancing with sugar syrup and the green colour reproduced with food colouring — most simply, the colourless white version plus green colouring, since the two are otherwise identical.
Often confused with
White (colourless) crème de menthe
The green and white versions are the same product with the same mint flavour, differing only in colour; the choice between them is aesthetic, driven by the intended colour of the finished drink.
Peppermint schnapps
Crème de menthe is a heavily sweetened 'crème' liqueur, whereas peppermint schnapps is generally a different, often less sweet mint spirit, so the two are not freely interchangeable despite their overlapping mint flavour.
