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| Irish Coffee | |
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 Irish coffee created with 10 year-old Bush Malt
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| Type: | Cocktail |
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| Served: | Hot |
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| IBA specified ingredients†: |
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| Preparation: | Heat the coffee, whiskey and sugar; do not boil. Pour into glass and top with cream; serve hot. |
| †Irish Coffee recipe at International Bartenders Association | |
Irish coffee (Irish: Caife Gaelach) is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and usually topped with thick cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. The original recipe explicitly uses cream that has not been whipped, although whipped cream is often used. Irish coffee may be considered a variation on the hot toddy.
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Origin
The original Irish coffee was invented by Joseph Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick. Foynes' port was the precursor to Shannon International Airport in the west of Ireland; the coffee was conceived after a group of American passengers disembarked at the airport on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan decided to add some whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After being asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told the passengers that it was Irish coffee.1
Stanton Delaplane, travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, brought Irish coffee to the United States after drinking it at Shannon Airport, when he worked with the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco to start serving it on November 10, 1952,23 and worked with the bar owners Jack Koeppler and George Freeberg to recreate the Irish method for floating the cream on top of the coffee, sampling the drink one night until he nearly passed out.45 The group also sought help from the city's then mayor George Christopher, who owned a dairy and suggested that cream aged at least 48 hours would be more apt to float.6 Delaplane popularized the drink by mentioning it frequently in his travel column, which was widely read throughout America. In later years, after the Buena Vista had served more than 30 million of the drinks, Delaplane and the owners grew tired of the drink. A friend commented that the problem with Irish coffee is that it ruins three good drinks: coffee, cream, and whiskey.7
Tom Bergin's Tavern in Los Angeles,8 also claims to have been the originatorcitation needed and has had a large in place reading "House of Irish Coffee" since the early 1950s.citation needed
In Spain a "Café Irlandés" ("Irish Coffee") is sometimes served with a bottom layer of whiskey, a separate coffee layer, and a layer of cream on top.9 Special devices are sold for making Café Irlandés.
Preparation
- Black coffee is poured into the mug;
- Whiskey and at least one level teaspoon of sugar is stirred in until fully dissolved. The sugar is essential for floating liquid cream on top.10
- Thick cream is carefully poured over the back of a spoon initially held just above the surface of the coffee and gradually raised a little. The layer of cream will float on the coffee without mixing. The coffee is drunk through the layer of cream.
References
- ^ europeancuisines.com
- ^ Nolte, Carl, SAN FRANCISCO Coffee, cream, sugar and -- Irish whiskey ... but Buena Vista changed brands, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/22/BAGM1MI1FP1.DTL&hw=irish+coffee+buena+vista&sn=001&sc=1000, retrieved on 9 July 2007
- ^ "Buena Vista Tweaks Formula for Irish Coffee", San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Carl Nolte (2008-11-09). "The man who brought Irish coffee to America", San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ John King (2008-11-09). "S.F. bar celebrates 56 years of Irish coffee", San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ John Garvey and Karen Hanning (2008). Irish San Francisco, Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738530499, http://books.google.com/books?id=U5pM_-ETNToC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=mayor+dairy+delaplane+irish&source=web&ots=UfSfQtylEb&sig=VeVjk4KMeBD2KXHAs-n2Ui15HkQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result.
- ^ Carl Nolte (2002-11-16). "Java the Irish way:50 years ago, a new drink was born in an S.F. cafe".
- ^ "Tom Bergin's Tavern". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- ^ gastronomiavasca.net
- ^ Joe Sheridan's Original Irish Coffee Recipe, http://www.coffeecakes.com/joe-sheridans-irish-coffee.html, retrieved on 9 July 2007
See also
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External links
- The Irish Coffee Story by The Buena Vista Cafe, San Francisco, CA
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