For St. Patrick’s Day, our favorite drink is an Irish coffee.
I'll start off with the Irish Mist, depending on how much fun you are looking to have for the night. I like to fill it about a third way up the glass, which is usually about a three or four count, depending on what size of glass you have.
Now, the next part is obviously adding the coffee. Nowadays, it’s a lot easier if you have something like a Keurig machine and a simple coffee bullet and you pop it in there, throw it down, put your glass in. I usually for this size glass, for beer glass or beer mug, I'll hit the middle control which I believe is about an eight ounce cup of coffee and you hit it.
A little interesting fact about Irish coffee was created back in the 1940s when Americans would take the 18-hour flight from the US over to Ireland and they would land in a city called Foynes, Ireland. And when they got off the plane, it was cold, cold winters. And when they got off, they had asked for a cup of coffee. And what they would do is they would stick a little bit of Irish whisky in there. And somebody once asked, “Is this a Brazilian coffee?” And the chef said, “No, it’s an Irish coffee.” And that’s the way it came about.
It wouldn’t do much more than maybe a tablespoon of sugar. Some people like brown sugar. I don’t have any ready available. You take the ReddiWip, give it a nice little shake, spin it around. If you really want to make it fancy, you take a little green coloring, make a couple of dots.
A real Irish man knows how to make a real Irish coffee.
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