Irish Coffee

Coffee Mug

Sugar Cube

Whiskey 1 oz

Coffee Fill

Green Creme De Menthe Splash

Heavy Cream

Add Whiskey and fill mug with coffee. Add the sugar cube and still until fully dissolved. Add a splash of Green Creme De Menthe and carefully float the heavy cream on top.

How do you make a delicious mug of yummy coffee even better? Well, you add alcohol to it of course! Now you've got an upper and a downer in the same mug! Hooray!

This was originally created to warm passengers disembarking at the Shannon International Airport in West Ireland. Joseph Sheridan created the drink to the delight of coffee drinkers worldwide.

There are many variations of the drink depending upon which type of liquor is added to the coffee. We describe how to make a Mexican Coffee here.