Infuse liquor with coffee, and you’ll get a strong coffee brew with a big kick. Instead of brewing the coffee hot and combining it with the alcohol, try a lazier cold-brew method for a smoother, sweeter coffee liqueur.
Depending on the alcohol and coffee you use, you could also save money on your homemade coffee liqueur — and you’ll also be able to control the quantity and quality of the brew. WonderHowTo steeped half a cup of coffee in two cups of ice-cold vodka overnight and afterwards added vanilla and sugar for a Kahlua-like drink (although, yes, Kahlua is typically a rum-based drink). They also used Scotch whiskey as the coffee steeping liquid.
The results? Pretty damn good. Both the coffee-and-vodka and coffee-and-Scotch brews were smooth with no hint of acidity. Best of all, both tasted like coffee — real honest-to-goodness coffee, but with a massive, for-adults-only kick.
And because the steeping process was so long, I could taste different notes of fruits, nuts, and spice in the coffee, all of which were amped up by the alcohol. Once I added agave and vanilla to the vodka version, I proclaimed it the best homemade Kahlua I’d ever produced.
Cold-brewing coffee might be the better method to go with this, because it cuts the acidity of the coffee.
Check out WonderHowTo’s article for more details and tips.
The Food Hacks Guide to the Ultimate Homemade Kahlua & Irish Coffee [WonderHowTo]
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