Hot Coffee
Hot coffee, brewed from roasted and ground coffee beans, adds warmth, bitterness, and aromatic depth to a cocktail. It is typically used freshly brewed and hot rather than iced. It is the backbone of a small but beloved category of warming coffee-spiked drinks.
Common uses
- base for hot coffee-based cocktails
Buying & storage
Use the same day: Brew it for the drink you are making.
Storage: brew fresh and use immediately for the best flavour
Before it goes
Use up hot coffee
Ranked by how much of it each drink uses and how little else it needs — the ones at the top will not send you back to the shop.
- Alcohol-Free Irish Coffee
Uses 150ml. Also needs demerara or soft brown sugar, double cream, lightly whipped.
- Irish Coffee
Uses 150ml. Also needs irish whiskey, brown sugar, double cream.
- Vietnamese Coffee Cocktail
Uses 90ml. Also needs dark rum, sweetened condensed milk.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where hot coffee is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Espresso Martiniin place of fresh espresso
- Tom and Jerryin place of hot water or hot milk
Swap it
Possible substitutions
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