Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey makes the world’s largest Irish coffee
It’s 56 years since Irish coffee first originated at the Buena Vista Café in San Francisco in 1952 - and the anniversary was marked this year by the bar creating the largest Irish coffee ever made.
Using 10 litres of Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey, 10 gallons of coffee and a gallon of cream and four pounds of sugar in a 15 gallon goblet, the historic bar hopes to land a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Buena Vista Café general manager, Michael Carden, had the three foot tall glass custom-made for the event
Tullamore Dew was the Irish whiskey used in the first ever Irish Coffee, invented by bartender Joe Sheridan in 1942. Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and Humphrey Bogart were all big fans of what was then called Tullamore Dew Irish Coffee.
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