Coffee Beans Roasting

Wherever you happen to be doing your drinking, you will likely find an Irish coffee confection that will suit your mood and make your taste buds happy, as well. Traditional Irish coffees are a delicious concoction of hot, strong, freshly brewed coffee, Irish whiskey, and a generous amount of sugar, which are thoroughly blended together and topped with a thick layer of (un-whipped) cream. The cream is never stirred into the coffee, but rather the coffee is drunk through the cream; and when prepared properly, Irish coffee is delicious and a very relaxing way to end your day. Commercially bottled Irish coffee liquor strives to imitate that experience, but with the ease of simply being able to pour the combined beverage from bottle to cup. Indeed, most commercially available Irish coffee liquors incorporate the rich flavor of deep, full-bodied coffee, traditional Irish whiskey, fresh cream, and a varying amount of sugar into a consistently flavored beverage that you can enjoy hot or cold. This liquor can be enjoyed in shots (preferably well chilled), on the rocks in a frosted glass, hot – stirred into black coffee is a preferred method – or mixed into one of possibly hundreds of mixed beverages, both hot and cold. Similar to traditional coffee flavored liquors, Irish coffee liquor has a unique and distinctive flavor that comes from the fact that it is made with traditional Irish whiskey rather than with a vodka or rum base like the majority of coffee flavored liquors. If you prefer to mix this into a mixed drink, you may want to do something as simple as variation of the traditional White Russian (something that my friends and I refer to as a Smiling Irish), by simply replacing traditional coffee liquor with a shot of Irish coffee liquor instead. To keep with the Irish spirit, many times the Smiling Irish is garnished with a fresh, green mint leaf. As is probably expected, this particular drink is especially popular in late March although you may have to describe it to your bar tender by content rather than by name. Additionally, you can easily add a shot or two of Irish coffee liquor to your favorite iced coffee, blended or unblended. Depending on your personal tastes, you can also add chocolate or caramel syrup to the beverage to give it another personal touch. Indeed, Irish coffee liquors are really not much different from other coffee liquors as far as their versatility, and your beverage choices are really limited by nothing more than your imagination.