Gary Regan Comes Through with the Recipe for Irish Coffee |
Irish Countryside (photo by Clara Natoli, courtesy of morgueFile.com)
A couple of days of cool, damp and rainy weather brought thoughts of Ireland to mind, where they say the usual way to tell the difference between winter and summer is to measure the temperature of the rain. All the rain serves a good purpose, helping the country earn its poetic moniker, Emerald Isle.
The desire to ward off the chill had another effect. It brought on the urge to sip an Irish Coffee, that lovely libation for improving one’s outlook on even the greyest of days. Before indulging, we wanted to make sure we prepared the classic warmer at its best. So of course we turned to our friend and guru for all things to do with cocktails, Gary Regan of Ardent Spirits.
Helping us out was a snap for Gaz, as he likes to be called, and we quickly had this little tidbit to share:
Irish Coffee was created in the 1940s by Joe Sheridan, a bartender at Shannon Airport, Ireland, who wanted to fix a drink that would appeal to American tourists. Stanton Delaplane, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, sampled one of Sheridan’s coffees and took the recipe to his local hangout, the Buena Vista in San Francisco, which now claims to sell an average of over 1,500 Irish Coffees per day.
Erin Go Bragh!
Recipe for Irish Coffee
Ingredients for 1 Drink
• 2 Ounces Irish whiskey
• 4 to 5 Ounces hot coffee
• Simple syrup, to taste
• Whipped cream
Preparation
Build in an Irish coffee glass, add the syrup first, then whiskey, then coffee. Float the whipped cream on top.
Cheers!
Gaz Regan Himself
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