Correction: the name of the business in this story was misspelled and should have been listed as Three Tides.

Last week I put out a question on social media, “Does anybody know a good cocktail that tastes like a Girl Scout cookie?” Seth Whited, the bar manager for Three Tides in Belfast answered the call and decided to whip up a cocktail from scratch that doesn’t appear on the menu.

The result is the  Three Tides Thin Mint and it just so happens this is national Girl Scout week! At the first sip, I said, “Mmm, the mint is strong with this one.”

It’s a cool, creamy, sweet cocktail and what totally nails it is the chocolate cookie rim.

“I just mixed some organic mint extract with chocolate sauce on one plate and crushed up some Oreo cookie on another,” Whited said. “You don’t even need the actual Thin Mint cookie to give it the same taste.”

“It’s probably fewer calories than downing an entire sleeve of Thin Mint cookies,” I said.

“Probably not by much,” he answered.

Whited wanted to make a cocktail that wasn’t too fussy and had readily available ingredients on hand.

“I had a notion at first that I wanted to make a grown up version of the Thin Mint,” he said. “There are chocolate flavored vodkas out there and some other ingredients that are pretty pricey and not so easy to come by. I also didn’t want to make the drink too green or else it would look like a Grasshopper. So, I played around with a bunch of flavors and then we decided to add our new Marshall Wharf Happy Dog coffee porter.”

The coffee porter is the surprising twist as it actually cuts the sweetness and gives the cocktail its depth. The Baltic style porter is brewed with Blackstrap Molasses, so while you’re getting just a hint of the bitter finish under the creamy layers, you’re also getting a double dose of the chocolate taste with a 9.10 percent abv.

This is definitely an adult Girl Scout drink. You don’t want to give it to Troop 29 —unless Troop 29 is 21 and older.

Whited said if he had everything handy he could probably make it for customers who requested it. However, the beauty of this “What’s In That Cocktail?” series is that we give you the ingredients and the video to show you how to make it yourself.

You’ll need:

• 1 ½ oz. Choco-lat liqueur
• 1 oz. White Crème de menthe
• 1 oz. vodka
• ½ oz. Baileys Irish Creme
• 1 oz. Happy Dog coffee porter

Coat the rim of a martini glass with the chocolate mint syrup first then rim with the cookie crumble. Set aside. Add ice to the shaker and all of the above ingredients. Shake, then strain into martini glass.

Enjoy and check out our gallery of other custom cocktails (with video) in our series Iconic craft cocktails of the Midcoast.

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com