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COLD BREW COCKTAILS 2019

This summer's hottest trend: drinks made with chilled coffee.

Successful bar managers know exactly what drinks their guests want and the secret sauce: extraordinary flavour fusions! That definitely describes these summer cocktails made with coffee. If they are made right, these drinks can boost your sales and give your customers a taste of sunny summer holidays.

Evening coffee? Sleep experts may disapprove but it's an ever more popular choice. A cold brew summer cocktail made using carefully selected beans will give your customers that cool caffeine kick they long for on a warm summer's evening.

WHAT IS COLD BREW COFFEE?

Cold brew is coffee that has been brewed in cold water over the course of several hours resulting in particularly intense coffee flavours with little bitterness.

The headliner on our lineup will definitely wake you up! It's the espresso and tonic. With slightly acidic, slightly bitter flavours to bring even the wallflowers out onto the dance floor. Then we have two caffeinated variations on classic cocktails: a mild and creamy black Russian and a zingy, refreshing coffee sour. Number four is fruity and fresh: the coffee bramble is ‘berry’ summery! Then the summer's best kept secret: the ‘Coffeeaner.’ This virgin cocktail will really go to your head but with no need for alcohol! With these drinks on the menu, we wish that summer could last all year.

Coffee offers over 1,000 different flavours, making it the ideal indulgent ingredient. Depending how it is made, it can be used for its acidity, subtle or intense flavours, as a filler, a syrup or for bitter notes. The biggest challenge is making the coffee just right. Embarking on that challenge can let you in for all kinds of surprises!

Timon Kaufmann, brewing bartender, expert on coffee and cocktails

PAYING WITH YOUR COFFEE CUP

Costa Coffee and Barclaycard have developed a device called the Clever Cup – the first reusable coffee cup that you can use to drink your coffee and make contactless payments. The Clever Cup contains a bPay chip so coffee fans can pay for their takeaway coffee simply by walking past! So far the Clever Cup is only available in the UK.

Contactless payments with the Clever Cup by Costa Coffee (photo: Barclaycard)

WASHING COCKTAIL GLASSES PROPERLY

Enjoying drinks means washing up. This can be a real challenge, especially with tall, delicate cocktail glasses. But it doesn't have to be. Bar owners use professional dishwashing machines to avoid watermarks, smears and damage. In this article, we bring together ‘7 tips for clean glasses’ and explain how restaurateurs should deal correctly with glasses.

THE TOP 5 COFFEE COCKTAIL RECIPES OF 2019

ESPRESSO AND TONIC

Style factor: urban and hip
Fashion factor: top cult drink of the moment

Ingredients and method:
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Pour 60 ml cold drip coffee (see below for recipe) and 100 ml tonic water into a shaker with a little lemon zest and mix thoroughly. If desired, garnish with an attractive curl of lemon peel. Alternative: half a slice of lime. Place one half into the glass and balance the other on the edge.

summer drink: the cult espresso and tonic
There you have it: the cult espresso and tonic

HOMEMADE COLD DRIP COFFEE

You will need: 100–200 g light roast coffee beans, 1 coffee grinder, 1 cold drip coffee machine (such as the ‘Dripster’ – a device that looks a little like something from a chemistry lesson with its glass flasks), ice cubes and at least 10–12 hours.

Pro method: grind the coffee beans as coarsely as possible. Place the ground beans in the cold drip machine and fill the container above with ice cubes. Over the course of several hours, the ice-cold water will drip onto the freshly ground beans and slowly filter through. The result is an intensely flavourful coffee extract with a variety of fruity and floral aromas which emerge.

Cheat method: you can also brew your ‘cold drip’ coffee in a cafetière. Simply put the freshly ground coffee into the cafetière and pour ice-cold water over it. Allow to brew for several hours. Before using it, push the plunger down until the coffee grounds are squashed together.

By the way, this method of making coffee was pioneered by the Dutch in the 17th century and is particularly gentle on the beans.


summer drink black russian
The classic black Russian is here