History
According to most sources, the Irish Car Bomb was created in 1979 by Charles Burke Cronin Oat, current instructor at the Connecticut School of Bartending, and former owner and bartender of Wilson’s Saloon, both in Norwich, CT. The drink evolved from several earlier versions dating back to 1977. The Grandfather, the original idea behind a Car Bomb, was a mixed shot of Bailey’s and Kahla coffee liqueur. Though Guinness was also being consumed at the same time, the Grandfather was not mixed with the Guinness at the time of its creation. Shortly thereafter, Oat was inspired to add Jameson Irish Whiskey to the shot, which made the shot bubble up vigorously like an explosion, causing him to remark that “the IRA just showed up!” Hence, the newly designed shot was known as the IRA (named after the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and their use of explosions during The Troubles). Two years later while drinking IRAs and Guinness, Oat got the idea to drop the shot into his half-finished pint of Guinness, with the words “Bombs away!”, and the Irish Car Bomb was born.
The drink later spread beyond the city of Norwich due to increased advertising by Guinness beginning in the late-1980s. While Kahla was part of the original recipe, it is often dropped from the drink today. Some refer to that original recipe as a Belfast Car Bomb.
Criticism
The name Irish Car Bomb is sometimes considered offensive because of its reference to PIRA terrorism. For this reason, some bartenders refuse to serve it.
Bombs, and car bombs in particular, were the weapon of choice for the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Perhaps the most infamous use of car bombs in Ireland’s history came on July 21, 1972 Bloody Friday. In all, 22 bombs the majority of them car bombs were set off in the city of Belfast, 19 in just over one hour. The events of Bloody Friday killed nine people (seven civilians) and resulted in 130 injuries. Bloody Friday was the deadliest day of the bloodiest year in the Troubles, as 1972 saw the explosion of 1,300 bombs.
See also
Beer cocktails
List of cocktails
Sake bomb
Jgerbomb
References
^ Irish Car Bomb recipe. Retrieved 18 Nov 2009.
^ Sennett, Bob. Complete world bartender guide. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553299007.
^ Charming, Cheryl. Everything Bartender’s: 750 Recipes for Classic and Mixed Drinks, Trendy. http://www.adamsmediastore.com/product/the-everything-bartenders-book-2nd-edition?r=gbs.
^ a b “Carbomb Creation”. April 16, 2009. http://shakenwithatwist.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/carbomb-creation/. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ a b “The Meaning of an Irish Car Bomb”. March 11, 2009. http://paganmaid-2.livejournal.com/31682.html. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ a b “IrishCarBomb.com”. http://www.irishcarbomb.com/. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ a b “Belfast Carbomb #1”. http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/b/belfast-carbomb-1-6989.html. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ a b Dicke, Scott (March 6, 2007). “History of Irish Car Bombs Isn’t Something to Drink To”. University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. Issue 88, Volume 87. http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=13515. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
^ a b Halleron, Chris (September 28, 2005). “Hal Wastes His Wages Defuse the ‘Irish Car Bomb'”. Hudson Current. http://www.hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Hal+Wastes+His+Wages+Defuse+the+-Irish+Car+Bomb-%20&id=2406564-Hal+Wastes+His+Wages+Defuse+the+-Irish+Car+Bomb-. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
^ “CAIN: Timeline of Terror”. Cain.ulst.ac.uk. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bfriday/nio/nio72.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
External links
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Irish Car Bomb
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