Irish Coffee

Irish coffee in Ireland itself also called Caife Gaelach respectively Gaelic Coffee, is a sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and a topping of lightly whipped cream. On Bar and Cocktail Cards Irish Coffee is run as hot drink.

It is now regarded as evidence that this hot drink in the early 1940s in a restaurant in the airport Foynes - was invented in the West of Ireland - a precursor of today's Shannon International Airport. Restaurant chef Joe Sheridan is to have it at the time, offered to passengers who were waiting for the connecting flight to their machine overseas, as the airport was served to refuel. Internationally known Irish coffee was but only when the Café Buena Vista in San Francisco this specialty coffee copied in 1952, after the journalist and Pulitzer Prize winners Stanton Delaplane had the owner Jack Koeppler reported it. Koeppler himself flew to Ireland to find out the right mix of ingredients. Long considered the Buena Vista so falsely to be the origin of Irish Coffee.

In the classic formulation first 2 tea or bar spoon (BL ) sugars are caramelized in a special heat-resistant Irish Coffee glass over an open flame, then about 3-4 cl Irish whiskey added and also heated. In the catering industry there are specially made alcohol burner with a holder, in which the glass can be rotated thereby. Alternatively, whiskey, sugar or sugar syrup are heated together and may added 1 BL caramel syrup. The mixture is then poured with hot, strong coffee and finally given half whipped cream on it. The cream leaves you thereby flow on the coffee over a spoon so that it does not mix with this. Decorated often with grated chocolate. Irish coffee is served classically without bucket and not stirred, one sip the hot coffee through the cool cream through.