HOW TO MAKE AN IRISH COFFEE: RECIPE
The Irish Coffee was invented in an airport bar by Joe Sheridan. It was made for disembarking passengers one nasty winter day back in the 40's. Today this is still one of the most popular warmed cocktails.
Irish Coffee Ingredients
- 75ml (2 1/2 oz) strong, hot coffee
- 45ml (1 1/2 oz) Irish whiskey
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 30ml (1 oz) whipping cream
- 1 tsp grated chocolate
Step 1
Place brown sugar into a coffee mug
Step 2
Pour in whiskey and coffee
Step 3
Carefully float cream on top and finish with chocolate
Variants of Irish coffee are made, all essentially the same but with different names and using a different spirit. Here are some examples listed below.
- Scotch or Gaelic coffee; using Scotch whisky
- Bonnie Prince Charlie coffee; using Drambuie
- Kentucky coffee; with Bourbon whiskey
- French coffee; using brandy or cognac
- Calypso or Caribbean or Jamaican coffee; using dark rum or sometimes, Tia Maria
- Russian coffee; using vodka
- Mexican coffee; using Kahlua
- Hasselt coffee; using jenever
- Baileys coffee; with Baileys Irish Cream
- Spanish coffee; using sherry
- Corfu Coffee; using Koum Quat liquor (Sugar is not necessary due to the extreme sweetness of the Koum Quat liquor)
- Canadian coffee; using Canadian whisky and either maple syrup or maple-flavored liqueur
- Dutch coffee; hot black coffee with sugar and advocaat stirred in.
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