Irish Coffee recipe and ingredients for the Irish coffee cocktail

Irish Coffee is a hot drink that cannot be missing from your restaurant’s menu, a much requested cocktail, of Irish origin, based on hot coffee, whisky, cream and cane sugar.

A real “hot drink” of corrected coffee, not mixed but shaken, to make the cream creamier, which must remain on the surface of the drink and not sink.

It is important in the preparation to balance the ingredients well, especially the alcoholic part.

This cocktail is ideal for sipping on cold winter days, but many consume it as a pleasant dessert at the end of a meal or in the middle of breaks in the day.

But how to make a perfect Irish coffee for your venue? There are ready-made professional solutions that you can use to make a very high quality product. Let’s see what the original recipe is to start from.

Preparation of Irish Coffee

Irish coffee is prepared in a large glass heated with boiling water, into which whiskey, hot coffee and sugar are poured, the latter must be dissolved thoroughly.

The fresh cream must be inserted into a shaker and shaken for 10 seconds. After a few more seconds of rest, pour it slowly into the glass, making the operation easier with the help of a teaspoon.

The Irish coffee is ready and can be decorated by adding a few coffee beans or a light sprinkling of cinnamon.

The original Irish Coffee recipe involves the exclusive use of Irish whiskey and long espresso coffee. There are also those who prefer the base made with short coffee or American coffee.

When adding cream to Irish coffee, you don’t need to stir it, because its job is to keep the cocktail warm and lighten the flavor of the whiskey. If mixed, its freshness immediately cools the drink.

However, it is also possible to prepare the summer version of Irish Coffee using cold coffee. This possibility makes it a versatile cocktail to adapt to all seasons.

Irish coffee preparation with Almar bar products

There are many variants of coffee available, the most common is arabic, made by processing beans, which are typically large and elongated in shape. After a long roasting and a dark roast, a coffee with an intense aroma and an extremely pleasant scent is obtained.

The coffee made with the Arabic quality has an aftertaste of chocolate, caramel and fruits, used in the Irish Coffee it gives the cocktail a strong and, at the same time, delicate flavour.

The Robusta variant of coffee, on the other hand, is strong and bitter due to a greater amount of caffeine present within it. The coffee obtained from roasting is creamier and fuller-bodied, with a spicy aftertaste.

Excelsa has a taste similar to Arabica, but with a much more complex and refined flavour, while Iberica is decidedly more fragrant and pleasant than the other varieties.

With Almar bar products you can make the coffee to be used as the basis of your Irish Coffee, relying on the quality of a company that has been a leader in the sector for years.

You will find a wide range of products selected according to excellent quality standards to choose from.

For customers who do not wish to drink caffeine-based drinks, you can offer a revisited version of Irish Coffee with decaffeinated coffee.

Alternatively, Almar offers a selection of caffeine-free drinks that you can serve in your bar, including barley coffee and ginseng coffee.

The latter is also available in the sugar-free version: Ginseng ZeroPiù, as good as the traditional one but with a lower caloric intake, ideal for those who want to enjoy a good drink, with a pleasant taste and, at the same time, sugar-free, made exclusively with 100% natural ingredients.