We need coffee to function in the morning, mid morning and mid afternoon. And if you’re anything like us, you love a good gin to wind down in the evening. Now these two lifesavers have merged to make a super drink: a gin and coffee cocktail.
More and more bars are teaming up baristas and bartenders to create coffee-based fusions to satisfy the demand of customers desiring this new trend.
But you don’t have to wait to go to a gin bar to try a world class cocktail, here are 8 of the best.
Best Gin and Coffee Cocktails
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Mac. & Roni
Brookie’s Gin have created a mouthwatering recipe that packs and punch and looks pretty to boot.
Ingredients:
- • 30ml Brookie’s Dry Gin
- • 15ml Mac. Macadamia & Wattleseed liqueur
- • 15ml homemade coffee
- • Macerated sweet vermouth
- • 30ml bitter range Aperitif
- • 2-3 dashes of macadamia
- • Cocoa bitters
- • Coffee beans (to garnish)
Method:
1. Stir all ingredients over ice and fine strain into an Old Fashioned glass.
2. Garnish with coffee beans.
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Cafe du Monde
This recipe from Quick Brown Fox was inspired by the coffee and cocktail culture of New Orleans – named after the legendary New Orleans coffee house of the same name.
Ingredients:
- • 30ml Quick Brown Fox Coffee Liqueur
- • 25ml Cognac
- • 15ml dry curacao
- • 8 Drops Bittermen’s Xocolatl Mole Bitters
- • 4 dashes absinthe
Method:
- 1. Combine all ingredients apart from the absinthe in a chilled mixing glass, stir for dilution and strain into an absinthe rinsed chilled Nick and Nora glass (do not discard the absinthe).
- 2. Garnish with an orange zest. Can be served hot or cold.
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Irish Coffee
A bit of a festive effort here from the English Drinks Company, but who says it can’t be Christmas every day?
Ingredients:
- • 25ml Orangery Gin
- • 25ml Kahlua (or any coffee liqueur)
- • 50ml fresh espresso
- • ¼ tsp cinnamon
- • ½ tsp white sugar (10ml Simple Sugar Syrup)
- • Double cream
Method:
- 1. Slow wet shake all the ingredients except the cream and fine into a glass.
- 2. Allow to settle then add the double cream float on top.
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Espresso Martini
Recipes don’t come much simpler than this one from Piston Gin, and when it tastes this good they don’t have to be.
Ingredients:
- • 50ml Piston Coffee Infused Gin
- • 1 Shot of espresso
- • 15ml maple syrup
Method:
- 1. Place all ingredients into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.
- 2. Shake until chilled.
- 3. Strain into glass and garnish with 2/3 coffee beans.
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Guinness & Espresso Martini
If you’re looking for something to do that’s both rewarding to make and even more enjoyable after then look no further than the Guinness & Espresso Martini.
The good folks at Masons Yorkshire Gin have come up with this fantastic recipe that gin and coffee lovers will adore
Ingredients:
- • 40ml Masons Dry Yorkshire Gin
- • 25ml Guinness
- • 5ml caramel syrup
- • 25ml Kahlua
- • 25ml (1 shot) espresso
Method:
- 1. Add all ingredients to a shaker and add one ice cube.
- 2. Shake all ingredients until the ice cube has dissolved, then add more ice and shake again.
- 3. Serve into a coupette glass.
- 4. Garnish with a fudge cube on the base and coffee beans on top.
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Ice Cream & Coffee Gin Affogato
This could the sweet treat to end all sweet treats. Gin, Mac. liqueur and ice cream – pure heaven.
Ingredients:
- • 30ml Mac. liqueur
- • 30ml espresso
- • 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream
Method:
- 1 Build the ingredients over the ice cream in a glass.
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An English Nightcap
We’re not sure that coffee and gin would be the ideal ‘nightcap’ but when a cocktail contains so many luxe ingredients and tastes so good, we’re staying up late!
Ingredients:
- • 50ml Orangery Gin
- • 30ml cocoa powder
- • ½ shot of espresso
- • 25ml half and half
Method:
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- 1. Shake the gin, cocoa powder and espresso shot in a cocktail shaker with ice until chilled.
- 2. Fine strain into a glass and layer with half and half on top.
- 3. Garnish with cinnamon (either light on top or as a stick).
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Piston Coffee Infused Gin & Cola
Now this will certainly perk you up; the sweet sugar from the cola mixing wonderfully with the coffee-infused gin.
Ingredients:
- • 50ml Coffee Infused Gin
- • Fever Tree Madagascan Cola
- • Lime to garnish
Method:
- 1. Add the gin into a glass with ice and top up with Madagascan Cola.
- 2. Garnish with fresh lime slices.