What kind of coffee is suitable for Qixi Festival? Have a cup of love and waiting-Irish coffee!

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With Qixi Festival's footsteps getting closer and closer, lovers in the world are also looking for gifts that best represent love. No matter whether you have company on this day or not, you might as well follow in our footsteps and taste this cup of love wine / coffee ── "Irish Coffee"!

Some say Irish coffee is a coffee, others say Irish coffee is a cocktail.

When coffee meets whiskey

With hot coffee as the base, add deep Irish whiskey and sweet brown sugar, and finally add a layer of light whipped cream, the world-famous wine and coffee-"Irish coffee"(Irish coffee) is complete!

Love and waiting story

When you drink Irish whiskey, you can also taste the refreshing coffee, and of course the dense whipped cream. This taste makes many people unforgettable. What is even harder to forget is the story of love and waiting behind it.

When the weather is bad, the flight has to turn back halfway for safety. if you can have a cup of Irish coffee, your body and mind will warm up from the inside out.

Location: Foynes Airport

When it comes to the history of Irish coffee, it is not as long as we think. Its legend can be traced back to Ireland's Foynes Airport in 1943.

Foynes is a small port town in western Ireland and a spaceship base across Europe and the United States. In the 1940s, Foynes Airport was so busy that transatlantic flights took off and landed here every day, and many American Hollywood stars and important politicians came to the airport, coupled with the unstable weather on the west coast of Ireland. Many passengers often have to spend the night at the airport and wait for the weather to clear up before leaving.

Time: winter night of 1943

It was on a bad winter night that Sheridan, the chef and chief bartender at the airport-attached restaurant, invented Irish coffee. At that time, a Pan am flight from Foynes to New York City had to return to Foynes Airport because of bad weather.

Warm up the cold and hungry passengers

Sheridan, who received the news of the flight's return, immediately began to prepare hot food and drinks for the cold and hungry passengers. Sheridan thought that if a little Irish Whiskey was added to the coffee, it would both refresh and warm up, which would be perfect for exhausted passengers. So he mixed cups of wine and coffee for passengers to drink, and an American passenger took a sip and asked, "Hey, man, is this Brazilian coffee?" "

Sheridan replied, "No, this is Irish coffee." "so this coffee with wine was named like this!

The bartender, who secretly had a crush on the stewardess, found that the stewardess would only order coffee every time she came to the airport bar, and it would take some effort to get her to taste her cocktail skills.

Actually, it's for the stewardess who has a crush on her.

After reading the above story, you may wonder where is the story of love and waiting behind Irish coffee?

According to other legends, Irish coffee was invented by a famous bartender at Foynes Airport, but it was not a cold passenger but a stewardess who made him invent the classic drink.

An exclusive cocktail made for her

In the story, the bartender who had a crush on the stewardess found that every time the stewardess came to the bar at the airport, he would only order coffee, leaving him no chance to show off his cocktail skills. So he invented Irish coffee and secretly made her own drink list for the stewardess. Only this drink list contained Irish coffee.

A year later, I ordered Irish coffee.

However, the stewardess did not find Irish coffee on the drink list at all, nor did the bartender remind her that she had a new drink. It was not until a year later that the stewardess ordered Irish coffee.

At that time, the bartender could hardly control his excitement and silently shed tears after the cocktail. Fearing that the stewardess would see him crying, he had to wipe away his tears and circle the rim of the glass with his tearful fingers.

The circle of tears on the edge of the glass

So, some people say that when you drink the first sip of Irish coffee, you can taste the taste of longing for someone but having to suppress love.

The bartender's secret love ended after the stewardess resigned and returned to San Francisco, but his Irish coffee for love became the most famous drink in the world.

The two became friends, but.

The stewardess who drank Irish coffee soon fell in love with the drink and began to talk to the bartender. The two became great friends, and the bartender taught the stewardess how to make Irish coffee.

It was only after returning to San Francisco that I found out.

However, as time went by, the two did not become partners, and the stewardess changed the runway back to her hometown of San Francisco after saying goodbye to the bartender. When she wanted to order Irish coffee in a coffee shop in San Francisco, she realized that there was no such drink at all. It was a drink specially prepared for her by the bartender.

Finally, the retired stewardess opened a cafe in San Francisco and began to make Irish coffee for everyone to drink. In San Francisco, Irish coffee is a coffee; in Ireland, however, Irish coffee is a cocktail.

Today, the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco serves up to 2000 cups of Irish coffee a day, making it the classic birthplace of American and Irish coffee.

Popular from Ireland to San Francisco

Behind the secret love story full of slight regret, the reason why Irish coffee is popular in San Francisco is actually very unromantic.

In 1952, Stanton Delaplane, a travel journalist drinking Irish coffee at Foynes Airport, met Jack Koeppler, a bartender at the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco, and urged him to make the drink. However, Kepler failed frequently to add fresh cream, which always sank into the coffee and could not float lightly on the surface. So Kepler decided to go to Foynes to ask Sheridan, who invented Irish coffee.

Carry forward the Irish coffee

Later, Copler, who returned from his studies, carried forward the Irish coffee at the Buena Vista Cafe. Today, Irish coffee has become a regular on the drink list of coffee shops and bars around the world.

The most famous drink in the world

Margaret O'Shaughnessy, director of the Foynes Spaceship and Maritime Museum, said: "Irish coffee is the most famous drink in the world. No matter which country you go, you can find it on the drink list." "

The final step in making Irish coffee is to add light whipped cream to the coffee with Irish Whiskey.

How do you make Irish coffee?

After all, how is a classic cup of Irish coffee made?

First of all, we have to prepare:

─ 4 oz full-bodied hot coffee

Irish Whiskey of ─ 1.5oz

─ 2 teaspoons of brown sugar

─ 1 ounce whipped cream

The first step is to put the black sugar into a mug or heat-resistant glass, then add hot coffee and stir well, then add Irish Whiskey and stir. Finally, slowly add whipped cream to the coffee along the back of the spoon and you are done.

Remember, do not stir up the whipped cream when it is imported. Instead, you should drink it directly so that you can drink to a rich level.

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