Special Kind of Coffee Cocktails

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November 16, 2022
Special Kind of Coffee Cocktails

It is well known that coffee is the perfect drink for any part of the day, for any season, and for every mood that you have, drinking it will make you feel better. Coffee has been produced for a long time now, and through the years other things were added to it. In the very first period that coffee was made, it was just coffee with no other ingredients added, other than sugar of course. Nowadays you have a variety of different types of coffee that you can choose from, and all of them have something different from one another. So now we’ll see some special kinds of coffee cocktails and how are they made, and the ingredients that are necessary.

Irish coffee – a coffee with an uncertain story

         Like any other type of coffee, it has many stories regarding the way that the coffee has been made for the first time ever. One of the most famous is that Irish coffee has come to the world in a city, in Ireland, named Foynes. This city was known for serving brilliant hot cocktails near the port and was specially served the ones that just had a very long trip overseas.

The story that appears to be generally persuading, nonetheless, depends on Shannon air terminal, another Irish town. In 1942, bad weather caused the cancellation of the flights from this airport, and the passengers were forced to remain overnight at the airport, among the passengers, there were some Americans. So tired of sitting in the airport they decide to go to the hotel bar, where the local bartender, Joseph Scheridan was. Seeing the American passenger so tired, he decided to make them a drink that it will recharge their batteries, he prepared them Irish coffee, at that time it was known only in Ireland. The passengers thought it was Brazilian coffee, but the bartender told them what it really was: Irish coffee! So, from that moment on, Irish coffee started to get known in America and afterward in the whole world. With time passing, there were new versions of it, like the Iced Irish Coffee, of which we will see the recipe because it is perfect for a hot day.

Iced Irish coffee recipe:

  • 2 oz Tullamore D.E.W. Original
  • 1 tsp ground espresso
  • 2 tsp demerara sugar
  • 2 tsp hot water
  • 3 oz cold brew coffee
  • Fresh cream

Making it shouldn’t be so hard, so first, you have to take a bowl and pour the whiskey and the espresso and let it stand for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, add water to the sugar until it dissolved, put the first composition into a cocktail shaker, and then the dissolved sugar. After, you add cold brew and ice, in the end, top with cream.

Colorado Bulldog – another form of the Black Russian drink

         We have to say that the Colorado Bulldog is basically the same as the Black Russian, but it has an ingredient that the last one doesn’t have, which we’ll see later. Let’s have a look at the story of the Black Russian, you may be confused by the name and think that it comes from Russia, but it comes from Belgium, like the White Russian too. The name of the bartender that invented them was Gustave Tops, and the year of this was 1949, at the Metropole Hotel in Brussels. The main ingredients of the Black Russian are vodka, the traditional Russian alcohol, and coffee liqueur. But since the Colorado Bulldog has something added, let’s see what it is and how it is made.

Colorado Bulldog recipe:

  • 1 oz Kahlúa
  • 1 oz Absolut Vodka
  • 1 oz cream
  • Cola

First of all, you have to mix and shake the cream with ice and the Vodka, then you strain it into a glass where you put ice. After on top, you add the special ingredient which is cola, and there you have it, your own Colorado Bulldog.

Espresso Martini Affogato

         This is a cocktail that is perfect after dinner, and usually, it is served with sweets like cheesecakes or mud cakes even with trifles. It is very easy to make, and it has a special taste of coffee, mixed with coffee liqueur and sugar syrup, and of course the vodka.

Recipe:

  • 1 tbsp coffee liqueur
  • 2 tbsp Vodka
  • 1 tbsp fresh espresso, cooled
  • 1/4 cup crushed ice
  • 1 small scoop vanilla ice-cream
  • Cocoa powder, to dust
  • Coffee beans

Start by putting all the ingredients in your shaker and then shake for about 10 seconds, after that pour the cocktail filtering with the strainer and garnish with a few coffee beans.

These are just some of the special kinds of cocktails that exist in the whole world, but they sure are some of the best ones. 

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