Peated Irish Coffee

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Hi guys, how’s it going? It’s Christmas Day and, for some, one night of partying has already come to pass :-)) To keep up with the holiday spirit and “proceedings”(read: shenanigans) one must have lots of energy, so this time I propose to you an all time favorite, the Irish Coffee, this time with a twist, read on to see what this is all about 😉

I’m sure most of you are familiar with Irish coffee cocktail, for those of you who aren’t, here’s a little bit of background on it.

Irish coffee (Irish: caife Gaelach) is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and topped with cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. Originally straight cream was used; today whipped cream is most common.

Different variations of coffee cocktails pre-date the now-classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years.

From the mid 19th century, the Pharisäer and the Fiaker were served in Viennese coffee houses; both were coffee cocktails served in glass, topped with whipped cream. The former was also known in northern Germany and Denmark around that time. Around 1900, the coffee cocktail menu in the Viennese cafés also included Kaisermelange, Maria Theresia, Biedermeier-Kaffee and a handful of other variations on the theme.[citation needed]

In 19th-century France, a mixture of coffee and spirits was called a gloria.

  • “Un trait de son caractère était de payer généreusement quinze francs par mois pour le gloria qu’il prenait au dessert.” (Balzac, Le Père Goriot, 1834, I.)
  • “Il aimait le gros cidre, les gigots saignants, les glorias longuement battus.” (Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1857.)

Several places claim to have developed the modern recipe in the 1950s. One version is attributed to a Joe Sheridan, head chef at the restaurant and coffee shop in the Foynes Airbase[1][2] Flying boat terminal building, County Limerick.[3] In 1942 or 1943[4] [5] he added whiskeyto the coffee of some disembarking passengers.[6][3][7]

Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, maintains he brought Irish coffee to the United States after drinking it at Shannon Airport. His version is that he worked with the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco to start serving it on November 10, 1952.,[8][9][10]Sheridan later emigrated to work at the Buena Vista Cafe.[11] 
Source: Wikipedia

Now, let’s see how we make it!

Peated Irish Coffee

To make the Irish coffee you just need a couple of basic ingredients:

  • Irish whiskey – 45ml
  • coffee
  • sugar syrup or sugar cubes
  • whipped cream

Now, I made some slight changes to this recipe, I put in 30ml of Jameson blended Irish whiskey and, this is the secret :-), 15ml Connemara peated single malt Irish whiskey, this peated Irish whiskey really adds quite a unique flavour to this classic cocktail 😉

 

And that’s it, you have yourself a great Irish Coffee with a twist 😉

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My name is Andrei, Andrei-Paul Muresan. I’m an IT professional, born in the wonderful year of 1982, in the heart of Transylvania (for people who don’t know, the heart of Transylvania is a city called Cluj-Napoca, located in Eastern Europe, in Romania to be more exact). Here’s a photo of me, just to put a face to the name 😉 I mentioned Transylvania because most people are more likely to know where Transylvania is and not where Romania is 🙂 oh and by the way, vampires, they’re just ghost stories, sorry to disappoint everybody. As you might expect, given my profession, I’m passionate about technology and everything that surrounds it, but I am also a great spirits fan, and when I say spirits I mean scotch, whisk(e)y and cognac, and I also enjoy a good cigar (I never say no to a good cigar). I like to mix all that with a good tune and also a good game, I own a couple of game consoles. I am, by no means, an expert in the scotch/whisk(e)y/cognac/cigar world, but I am keen on learning everything there is to know about it, so I’m launching an invitation to you, to join me in this virtual journey as we learn together.
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