Original Story
The original Irish coffee was invented and named by Joe 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".
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 and has had a large sign in place reading "House of Irish Coffee" since the early 1950s. Now Irish Coffee reached 60 years old in America
Irish Coffee Recipe
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey (the lower line of the glass)
1 tsp brown sugar
2 1/2 oz strong, hot coffee (the upper line of the glass)
1 oz whipping cream
Special Irish Coffee Glass has two gold lines, with green clover between the lines
Preparation:
1. Heat the glass with boiling water so that it is good and hot.
2. Add the whiskey, brown sugar (authentic way is to burn under with candle)
3. Add the hot coffee.
4. Float the cream on top of the glass.
5. Do not stir.
The hot beverage is best enjoyed by sipping through the cream.
Another Irish Coffee Story from a novel with the same title
A bartender at the Dublin airport met a beautiful flight attendant. He was eager to present her with cocktail glass of Ireland. But she didn't like wine. She liked coffee. After many tries and failures, the bartender finally created a unique drink combining Ireland whiskey and Irish coffee. To remove strong alcohol taste, he burned the whiskey with brown sugar before adding the hot coffee. Finally the beautiful girl ordered the "Irish Coffee" and loved it. She brought it back to America. The end.
Who will make the authentic Irish coffee for her?
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