centrale 🍸

I got some coffee liqueur (Spresso) and started fiddling with a recipe containing that. After some iterations I found that bourbon (I have used bulleit) goes nice with the coffee bitterness. Also Cointreau balances up with some sweetness. Add to that some orange and lemon juice and it is a really tasty thing.

Ingredients:

3 parts bourbon
2 parts cointreau
1 part coffee liqueur
2 parts orange juice
1 part lemon juice

How to do it:

put ice in a shaker
add all the ingredients
shake for some time
pour into a coupe

Enjoy!

Then what do we call this new cocktail. I wanted to call it Stazione but it turns out there is a cocktail with that name already. A strega/fernet/vermouth combo that doesn’t sound that great to be honest. But I’ll try it - it has a good name. So instead I settled for Centrale which is alomst the same thing in italiano.

written by fredrik at 2025-01-04