Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee , also called Caife Gaelach or Gaelic Coffee in Ireland , is a sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and a cap of lightly whipped but still liquid cream . Irish coffee is featured as a hot drink on bar and cocktail menus .

There is now evidence that this hot beverage was invented in the early 1940s in a restaurant at Foynes Airport - a forerunner of today's Shannon International Airport - in western Ireland . Restaurant boss Joe Sheridan is said to have offered it to passengers who were waiting for their plane to fly overseas when the airport was approached to refuel. Irish Coffee only became internationally known when the Buena Vista Café in San Francisco copied this coffee specialty in 1952 after the journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Stanton Delaplane had reported about it to the owner Jack Koeppler. Koeppler flew to Ireland himself to find the right mix of ingredients. For a long time, the Buena Vista was therefore wrongly considered the place of origin of Irish coffee.

With the classic preparation, 2 tea or bar spoons (BL) of sugar are first caramelized in a special, heat-resistant Irish coffee glass over an open flame , then about 3–4 cl Irish whiskey is added and also warmed up. In the catering industry, there are specially made alcohol burners with a holder in which the glass can be rotated. Alternatively, whiskey, sugar or sugar syrup can be heated together and possibly 1 teaspoon caramel syrup added. Then hot, strong coffee is poured over it and finally half-whipped cream is added. The cream is allowed to flow over a spoon onto the coffee so that it does not mix with it. It is often decorated with grated chocolate. Irish coffee is classically served without a spoon and not stirred, the hot coffee is sipped through the cool cream.

literature

Hannes Bertschi, Marcus Reckewitz : From absinthe to zabaione. How food and drinks got their name and other curious stories. Argon, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87024-559-X , p. 160 ff.

Web links

Commons : Irish Coffee - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Irish Coffee - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wikibooks: Irish Coffee - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Voigt: The great textbook of the bar customer. A handy guide for professional bartenders, bar masters, and bar managers. 2nd, revised edition. Matthaes, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87515-018-6 , pp. 140 f.

[1] Uwe Voigt: The great textbook of the bar customer. A handy guide for professional bartenders, bar masters, and bar managers. 2nd, revised edition. Matthaes, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87515-018-6 , pp. 140 f.