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Irish Coffee

Origin

The original Irish coffee was invented by Joseph Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick but originally from Castlederg, County Tyrone. 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 from a Pan Am flying boat on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After the passengers asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it was Irish coffee.

A mug of Baileys coffee

Stanton Delaplane, a 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, 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. 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. 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, by its count, 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.

Tom Bergin's Tavern in Los Angeles, also claims to have been the originator[citation needed] and has had a large sign in place reading "House of Irish Coffee" since the early 1950s.[citation needed]

In Spain a "Caf Irlands" ("Irish Coffee") is sometimes served with a bottom layer of whiskey, a separate coffee layer, and a layer of cream on top. Special devices are sold for making Caf Irlands.

Preparation

Making of Irish Coffee.

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.

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.

See also

The Wikibook Bartending has a page on the topic of

Irish Coffee

Liqueur coffee

Stout

References

^ EuropeanCuisines.com: "Irish Coffee"

^ Foynes Flying Boat Museum: Our Irish Coffee Heritage

^ Nolte, Carl (November 22, 2006), "San Francisco: Coffee, cream, sugar and Irish whiskey ... but Buena Vista changed brands", San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate, 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 2007-07-09 

^ "Buena Vista Tweaks Formula for Irish Coffee". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.webcastr.com/videos/informational/buena-vista-tweaks-formula-for-irish-coffee.html.  (dead link as of at least January 12, 2009)

^ Nolte, Carl (November 9, 2008), "The man who brought Irish coffee to America", San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/08/BAMB140VVQ.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea 

^ King, John (November 9, 2008), "S.F. bar celebrates 56 years of Irish coffee", San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/09/BAUR1411MT.DTL 

^ Garvey, John, 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. 

^ Nolte, Carl (November 16, 2002), "Java the Irish way:50 years ago, a new drink was born in an S.F. cafe", San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/16/BA31101.DTL&type=travelbayarea 

^ Perry, Charles. "Tom Bergin's Tavern". Los Angeles Times. http://www.calendarlive.com/search/72140,0,6092655.venue. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

^ Gastronomiavasca.net: "Recipes"

^ "Joe Sheridan's Original Irish Coffee Recipe". CoffeeCakes.com. http://www.coffeecakes.com/joe-sheridans-irish-coffee.html. Retrieved 2007-07-09. 

^ "Good Food Ireland's Traditional Irish Coffee Recipe.". www.goodfoodireland.ie. http://www.goodfoodireland.ie/index.cfm/section/Recipes/key/113. Retrieved 2009-12-08. 

External links

The Irish Coffee Story by The Buena Vista Cafe, San Francisco, CA

Irish Coffee Recipe By Good Food Ireland.

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