San Francisco Irish Coffee and Other Hot 喝s for A Chilly Night

在 布埃纳维斯塔咖啡馆, on the corner of Hyde and Beach streets overlooking 渔人码头, it’s no secret that they’ve perfected the San Francisco Irish Coffee. It’s such an institution that it doesn’t even need to use the full name; cable car placards say “Meet me at the BV.“为什么不呢?? After all, it’s where the drink first landed in America in 1952.

The original Irish Coffee was created by an airport chef named Joe Sheridan, who worked at the little Foynes airport near Limerick, according to the Ireland Whiskey Trail. He whipped it up one rainy winter night for passengers whose plane got turned around due to a storm. He later moved to the Shannon Airport, and took the drink with him. Travel writer Stanton Delaplane tasted it there, and one night 布埃纳维斯塔咖啡馆 owner Jack Koeppler convinced him they needed to figure out how to make a San Francisco version.

The 布埃纳维斯塔咖啡馆 uses Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey and Peerless Coffee, 家族拥有的咖啡品牌. An immigrant from Yugoslavia founded the Oakland roastery in 1924, and it remains there today. It’s smooth and nutty and substantial, but never bitter.

“We sell more Irish whiskey than anywhere in the world,克拉克·费瑟说, a 26-year barman at the 布埃纳维斯塔咖啡馆. Watching Facer make Irish Coffees is mesmerizing, as close to a fusion of man and machine as you might see behind a bar. He lines up 10 or so of the fluted glasses the coffees are served in along the rail. Splash, dump, pour, plop, chop goes the hot water, coffee, sugar cubes. Next come jiggers of whiskey and finally frothy whipping cream.