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After dinner, after hours, or even after a long St. Patrick’s Day, Irish coffee is the one delicious pick-me-up you won’t find at your local coffeehouse.

You Will Need

  • 1 12 oz. Irish whiskey
  • 6 oz. hot coffee
  • 2 brown sugar
  • Whipped cream
  • A stemmed glass coffee mug or a regular coffee mug
  • A spoon
  • A measuring jigger

Step 1: Warm glass or mug

Run hot water slowly over the glass or mug until it’s at room temperature, or warmer, and dry it.

Pouring hot coffee into a cold glass could cause the glass to crack.

Step 2: Add brown sugar

Add brown sugar.

Step 3: Pour whiskey & coffee

Pour in the whiskey and hot coffee, leaving a bit of room at the top for whipped cream.

For a cold version of this, chill sweetened coffee before adding the whiskey, or freeze some in an ice cube tray.

Step 4: Stir well

Stir well, until the sugar to dissolves completely.

Step 5: Add whipped cream

Squirt or spoon a dollop of whipped cream so it simply sets on top of the drink.

Step 6: Do not stir

Do not stir—not only does the hot drink taste better sipped through the cream, it stays warmer longer with the cream on top.

The drink Irish Coffee was devised in 1942 at an exclusive Irish airport to welcome American VIPs like Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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