Kahlua (and its possibilities)
Kahlua has so many useful drink variations that everyone should have a bottle in their household. Its arabica coffee and rum combination can be a perfect dessert substitute, a tasty compliment to a cigar, or an anytime coffee-flavored refresher. It’s made in Veracruz, Mexico, where the coffee beans dry in burlap bags for about 6 months before mixing with 7-year aged rum made from the juice of sugarcane. The roasted coffee and rum mix together for 4 weeks before being bottled and shipped. At 20% alcohol, lots of combinations involving vodka, Irish cream, chocolate liqueur and cola make for the best “coffee break” we ever had. Or, Kahlua can be enjoyed very simply on ice alone, a dash of milk optional.
If creating a Kahlua mix, my personal favorites are the Black Russian (posted previously), the Coffee Martini and the Time Bomb.
Black Russian
- 2 oz. vodka
- 1 oz. Kahlua
Fill a rocks glass with ice. Mix the two ingredients in the glass and stir. Garnish with a cherry.
Coffee Martini
- 1.5 oz. vodka
- .75 oz. Kahlua
- .75 oz. chocolate liqueur (Godiva preferred)
Mix the 3 ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake vigorously and pour over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with coffee beans.
Time Bomb
- 1 oz. Kahlua
- 2 oz. dark rum (Myers’s, Goslings Black Seal or Captain Morgan preferred)
- 2 oz. cola (Coke or Pepsi preferred)
Stir the 3 ingredients in a rocks glass with ice.
For other ingenious Kahlua cocktail ideas, go to the Kahlua link provided below. Enjoy!
Recent Comments