Apapacho Café

Apapacho Café

A riff on the Irish Coffee →

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Ingredients

  • ¾ oz
    bourbon
  • ¼ oz
    vermouth rosso
  • 1 oz
  • 1½ oz
    coffeefreshly brewed
  • 1½ oz
    whipping cream
Garnish: grated nutmeg

Preparation

  1. 1.

    Add all ingredients except the whipping cream to the glass and stir gently to combine.

  2. 2.

    Add the whipping cream and an ice cube to a shaker and shake very hard.

  3. 3.

    Strain over the cocktail, then grate the nutmeg on top (see notes).

Notes

A note on the garnish Zapote Bar (in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where this drink is from) doesn't use straight nutmeg, but adds a bit of pinole (4:1 nutmeg:pinole). Pinole is a mixture of corn flour, sugar, and cinnamon.
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Recipe by Joshua Monaghan · Adapted from Imbibe Magazine · Photo by Zapote Bar/Rosewood Mayakoba

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