Irish coffee

Irish coffee (Irish: caife Gaelach) is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar (some recipes specify that brown sugar should be used), stirred, and topped with thick cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. The original recipe explicitly uses cream that has not been whipped, although drinks made with whipped cream are often sold as "Irish coffee".

Origin

Although different variations of coffee cocktails pre-date the now-classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years, the original Irish coffee was invented and named by Joe Sheridan, a head chef in Foynes, County Limerick but originally from Castlederg, County Tyrone. 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.

Irish Coffee (TV series)

Irish Coffee is a Canadian talk show television series which aired on CBC Television from 1969 to 1970.

Premise

This Toronto-produced series was recorded on location at Julie's, a restaurant on Jarvis Street located across from the primary CBC facilities. Discussions were informal, frequently involving humorous stories. Episodes were hosted by one of Fred Davis, Paul Kligman, Paul Soles and Bill Walker, featuring such guests as Andrew Allan, Ray Sonin, Ben Wicks and Peter Worthington.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 24 September 1969 to 28 January 1970. The series was cancelled due to insufficient viewership and negative critical reception.

References

External links

  • Allan, Blaine (1996). "Irish Coffee". Queen's University. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
  • Irish Coffee at the Internet Movie Database
  • Irish Coffee (disambiguation)

    Irish coffee is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and topped with thick cream.

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  • Irish Coffee, a hard rock band from Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium from the 1970s
  • Irish Coffee, a Canadian talk show television series from 1969 to 1970
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