April 24, 2024

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National Coffee Day Is Sun., 9/29! Time to Add a Kick to Your Coffee with These Cocktail Recipes!

Get Ready for National Coffee Day (Sunday, September 29– YES that’s tomorrow!) with these amazing cocktail recipes! The array of flavors and spirits and how they are mixed up into some of the most unusually tasty cocktails will blow you away.   You could try a different one for  an entire week!  Get your friends and family to come join you for a casual brunch with fabulous cocktails!

 

 
 

A PROPER COFFEE
Created by Sonny Verdini, Bar Manager, TRADE (Boston, MA)

 
 

 

Photo credit: Amanda Lewis

 

Ingredients:
2 oz Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
1.5oz Boston Harbor Coffee Liqueur
1oz  Mandarine Napoleon
.5oz Benedictine

 

Method:
Shake/Strain into a Nick and Nora glass.
Garnish with hand-whipped cream and coffee beans.

 
 

 

CHIPOTLE MEXICAN COFFEE

 

 
 

Ingredients:
2 oz. Tanteo Chipotle Tequila
5 oz. Freshly Brewed Coffee
1/2 teaspoon Granulated White Sugar
1 Teaspoon Brown Sugar
Whipped cream for topping

 

Method:
Add fresh coffee to glass,
Stir in white and brown sugar until dissolved.
Add Tanteo Chipotle Tequila and stir.
Top with whipped cream.

 

STARWARD COLD FASHIONED

 

 

Ingredients:
2 oz Starward Australian Whisky 
2 oz Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur
1 dash Orange Bitters 

 

Method:
Combine all in a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold.
Serve in a rocks glass over 1 large rock with orange zest.

 
 

THE DORTHAQUIRI 

 
 

 

 
 

Ingredients:
2 parts Strawberry Infused Rum
1 part Caffé Borghetti
1.5 parts cold-pressed espresso
.25 Cinnamon Syrup

 

Method:
All ingredients in a shaker and shake well,
Strain into glass and garnish with a mini biscotti.

 
 

THE MAD MAC
Gavin McMonigle, Piss & Vinegar, Philadelphia

 

 

Ingredients:
2 oz. Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
1 Part Mexican Coffee Liqueur 
2 scoops Mint Chocolate ice cream

 
 

Method:
Hard shake all ingredients in a tin with crushed ice.
Strain into 6 oz. Irish coffee glass and serve.

 

NIGHT CAP

 

 

 
 

Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Vodka
½ oz. premium coffee liqueur
1 freshly brewed espresso shot
Chocolate shaving or coffee beans

 
 

Method:
Pour Crystal Head, coffee liqueur and espresso into a shaker filled with ice.
Shake vigorously to create froth then strain into a martini glass.
Garnish: Chocolate shavings or finely crushed coffee beans

 

 

 

TOPSY TURVY
Created by Jeremy Oertel

 

 

 
 

 

Ingredients:
2 oz Carpano Antica Formula
1 oz Lock Stock & Barrel Rye Whiskey
1 tsp. Caffé Borghetti
1 dash Mole Bitters (preferably Bittermens)

 
 

Method:
Stir, Strain into a Nick & Nora,
Garnish with an Orange Twist

 
 
Hope you have a chance to try at least one or two of these great cocktail recipes. It’s worth printing out the recipes since these are not widely distributed recipes for future parties!
 
Stevie Wilson,
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