cocktail invented in 1942 for passenger of a passenger aircraft at a waterfront airfield in the fishing village Foynes in the southwestern part of Ireland, the Shannon river estuary. The inventor is Jeff (Joseph) · Sheridan, a pub chef at Forins airfield.
Since 1935 Foons has become a seaplane to and from the flying boat from 1935, but from 1937 before the Second World War, Pan-American Airlines began operating a transatlantic airway between the United States and Britain using a flying boat When it was done, it also became a port of call. The flying boat at that time had a short cruising distance and had to call Ireland and Nova Scotia in Canada on the way along the Atlantic Ocean for refueling.
The propeller flying boat of those days was not an airtight structure unlike later passenger aircraft, heating was not very effective. In addition, while the flying boat is refueling on the water, passengers had to move on boat for safety and wait on land, but if the weather at the harbor is bad, the passengers will be frozen further from the flying boat until they reach the rest house with the pub It got us down.
Therefore, this drink based on Irish whiskey specialized in Ireland was invented from the
concern that passengers warm their bodies using the refueling wait time.
This cocktail opened in 1940 in the vicinity of Foins, it was also offered at Shannon airport which became a relay point of Atlantic air route substituting for Forines after the war after the war, and use the transatlantic air way as a local specialty It came to be known to people. In 1952, the recipe was conveyed to San Francisco 's "Buena Vista Cafe" to be drunk, so its existence expanded further and one of warm type cocktails (hot drinks) drunk all over the world became.
At present, at Shannon Airport "Joe · Sheridan · Cafe" is established to mark cocktail inventor Sheridan and a memorial plate is also set up. Of course you can order Irish coffee.
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