Roasty Toasty Coffee Cocktails

Coffee cocktails have come a long way since the 1940s/50’s Irish Coffee and 1960’s White Russian (made famous by The Big Lebowski), and the Espresso Martini of the 1980s/90’s. This is in part to the evolution of coffee culture itself. From first-wave drip coffee, to Starbucks, to today’s craft “third-wave” coffee and the canned cold brew trend. These different styles of coffee have given us the ability to mix them into cocktails never before possible, but certainly delicious.

Thankfully, you don’t need to work at a bar or coffee shop to add the rocket fuel to your Friday fun. We’ve put together a list of our favorite ways to get roasty toasty and keep your night (or morning?) fueled up for fun.

Cold Brew Negroni

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. Gin
• ½ oz. Coffee Liqueur
• ¾ oz. Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
• ¾ oz. Americano Rosso

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice and stir until chilled.
2. Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
3. Garnish with an orange peel.

Sakeé Coffee

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. Potato shochu
• ¾ oz. Del Maguey Crema de Mezcal
• 2 tsp. Coffee Liqueur

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice and stir until chilled.
2. Strain into a snifter.

Café Marumbi

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Novo Fogo Barrel Aged
• 1 oz. Coffee Liqueur
• ¾ oz. Lemon cordial*
• 1 oz. Tonic Water

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients, except the tonic water, in a mixing tin a shake with ⅛ cup of pebble ice.
2. Shake until you can no longer hear the pellet ice.
3. Pour tonic water into a chilled coupe glass.
4. Pour contents of shaker over the tonic water.

Lemon Cordial

Ingredients

• 4 lemons
• ½ cup vodka
• ½ cup sugar

Directions

To a bowl, add the peels of 2 lemons and the sugar. To a separate bowl, add the peels of the two remaining lemons to the vodka. Refrigerate the peeled lemons and let both mixtures sit separately for 24 hours. Combine all ingredients in a new bowl, add the juice of the four lemons, and stir to combine. Fine strain, bottle and refrigerate for up to one month.

Tiramisu

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. Coffee Liqueur
• ¾ oz. Marsala wine
• ½ oz. White crème de cacao
• 1½ oz. Espresso, chilled
• 1 dash Simple syrup
• 1 tsp. Mascarpone cheese
• 2 dashes Chocolate bitters

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing tin and shake with ice.
2. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
3. Garnish with shaved chocolate.

Pour Over Irish Coffee

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Irish whiskey
• 1 Sugar cube
• 6 oz. Hot freshly brewed coffee
• Whipped cream (for serving)

Directions

1. Place sugar cube in an Irish coffee mug. Add coffee and whiskey and stir to combine.
2. Top with whipped cream if using.

Kentucky Coffee

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Bourbon
• ½ oz. Coffee liqueur
• Dash of vanilla extract
• Sugar to taste
• Whipped cream
• 6 oz. Hot coffee

Directions

1. Fill an Irish coffee glass half full with hot coffee
2. Add an ounce of your favorite bourbon, half an ounce of coffee liqueur and a dash of vanilla extract.
3. Sweeten with sugar to taste, and slowly pour some cream so that it rests on top. 

Espresso Summer

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. gin
• 1 oz. Cold brew concentrate
• ½ oz. Simple syrup
• ½ oz. Orange juice
• Blackberries
• Orange Slice

Directions

Add the cold brew, gin, simple syrup and orange juice in a shaker. Top with blackberries and an orange slice.