National Irish Coffee Day – how do you make the perfect Irish cocktail?

I do not know why they call it a traditional irish coffee, 99% of irish have never tasted it, more a drink for the tourist trade.

I like to keep it simple.....a cup of coffee with Bailey's Irish Creme is all I need for a wonderful cup of hot java!!

Candian, I think you might have meant the Buena Vista Pub which is know for using Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey which they are well known for. The Buena Sierra is an Italian restaurant.

gotta love it made with Kahlua or Baileys too - may not officially be irish coffee but it works for me!! yummmmm

the given recipe will produce a drink that is lukewarm. truly hot coffee with cool cream on top is way better. plus, using that brown sugar with the large hard crystals tastes primo, including the bit of sugar sprinkled across the top of the whipped cream. oh yea, make a hotter drink by pouring hot water into glasses for a few minutes, then dumping it out. then after adding whiskey to the sweetened coffee, nuke the drink for 11 seconds per drink before adding the cream and sugar finale. perfection, deserving of a reprise...

Quote Run hot water slowly over a glass mug until it’s at room temperature or hotter, and then dry it (pouring hot coffee into a cold glass could cause it to crack) End quote The only reason to use hot water to raise something to room temperature is if the item is very cold (frozen) to begin with. Actually you want to raise the temperature to over 100 F . Since the whiskey and the sugar are going into the mug first, the thermal shock will be a lot less. the writer does not mention the old trick of putting a spoon into the mug before pouring in the boiling coffee. This acts as a thermal shunt but the whiskey should do thye same thing. Also no mention of floating the cream into the bowl (or back) of a spoon to stop it plunging to the bottom of the glass. Hopefully the fresh whipped cream does not come from an aerosol can as this is too thick. Slightly beaten heavy whipping cream is best. About 5 seconds in a blender is what the Buena Sierra pub in San Fran uses.

Yum!