Coffee All Day Long: 2 Mocktails

Why stop drinking coffee at 3 pm? Why not take a two-hour break and start again with Happy Hour?

We’ll start with a recipe for simple syrup, which many cocktails use.

Simple Syrup

Ingredients

Sugar
Water

Heat equal parts sugar and water until dissolved.

Cool before using.

Coffee Old Fashioned

Ingredients

1 oz concentrated coffee
1/2 oz simple syrup
Bitters of your choice
Ice

Add coffee concentrate, simple syrup, orange bitters and ice to a shaker.

Shake it well and pour into an old fashioned glass with ice. Top with a cherry or other fruit.

Elbow Grease Froth

Ingredients

2 oz strong coffee
1 oz simple syrup
ice

Pour coffee and syrup into a shaker, then fill with ice.

Shake and shake and shake until the mixture is frothy and outside of shaker is frosty – about a minute.

Strain into a short glass and serve.

For an Elbow Grease Mocha Froth, add 1 oz chocolate syrup, halving the amount of simple syrup or doubling the amount of coffee.