Coffee Negroni Recipe
A Negroni with coffee liqueur standing in for the vermouth: the same bitter orange bite, now rounded by roast and dark sweetness.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 24%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Gin30 ml (1 oz)
- Campari30 ml (1 oz)
- Coffee liqueur30 ml (1 oz)
How to Make It
- Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir until well chilled.
- Strain over one large ice cube in a rocks glass.
- Express an orange twist over the drink and drop it in.
Garnish
Orange twist
What it tastes like
It has a bitter backbone and there is roasted coffee in it.
The technique
Stirring. All-spirit drinks are stirred — shaking whips air into them and ruins both the clarity and the texture. Thirty to forty seconds in a mixing glass, the spoon tracing the wall. You are after the same ~20% dilution, just slower and under control.
Glass and ice
A heavy-bottomed, wide old fashioned glass. Wide enough for one large cube, which is the point: a big cube has less surface area, so the drink gets cold without getting watery.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Gin
- London dry gin: juniper up front, citrus and coriander behind it. Brand really does show here — Beefeater is sharp, Hendrick's floral, Tanqueray juniper-heavy.
- Campari
- The red Italian bitter, with a bitterness that is unmistakable. Aperol can replace it, but Aperol is half the strength and clearly sweeter, so the drink comes out softer.
- Coffee liqueur
- Coffee liqueur. It is not a stand-in for coffee — it is very sweet and low in caffeine; in drinks with espresso the two are used together, not instead of each other.
The Story
One of the many equal-parts variations spun off the Negroni as bars began swapping its vermouth for other sweet modifiers.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Coffee Negroni mixed?
- It is stirred and served in an old fashioned glass.
- How strong is a Coffee Negroni?
- Roughly 24% ABV as served — in fortified-wine territory — plan it as a single drink.
- Can a Coffee Negroni be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Coffee Negroni hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
The main ingredient here is also a dream symbol: Coffee in a dream
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