Wednesday, March 30, 2022

coffee's for closers

1 oz Amaro Averna
1 oz Benedictine
1 oz Caffè Borghetti Espresso Liqueur
1 Whole Egg

Shake once without ice and once with ice, strain into a single old fashioned glass, and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg (and later with freshly grated coffee bean as well).
Two Wednesdays ago, a guest at Drink wanted a dessert cocktail that was coffee flavored, and I came up with this Flip on the fly with the Borghetti Espresso Liqueur and Averna from our house Espresso Martini recipe and the Benedictine, egg, and nutmeg garnish from the Colleen Bawn. I later made it for a guest requesting a nightcap towards the end of the night (captured here in the photo before I delivered it). Overall, it was a Flip like the classic Coffee Cocktail, but one that actually tastes of coffee. For a name, I dubbed this one after a line from the 1992 movie Glengarry Glen Ross – namely Coffee's for Closers. Another line from that movie is "A. B. C.: Always be closing" except here the A. B. C. is Averna, Benedictine, coffee liqueur!

3 comments:

L33tminion said...

Oh wow, that sounds like a very good combination!

MT said...

Made this with Mr. Black and Treehouse Kola liqueurs and it was fantastic. I like to use a splash or two of the Cioccolate Amaro from Truro Vineyards of Cape Cod to "beef up" Averna and I bet that would work well here too

frederic said...

Thanks! I know folks on Reddit were asking if Mr. Black would sub in here and I said that it was more of a question of sugar content/sweetness (but that would be mitigated by Benedictine and Averna already having enough sugar). I've worked at places with rather dry coffee liqueurs (Boston Harbor Distillers) to sweet ones (Kahula) and it can effect drinks like the White Russian greatly (meaning that I need to add Demerara).