Niced Coffee
Rating: 7.2/10 | #meifiwaskorean
Since this is the first espresso-based drink featured in our glorious return to the blog, I figure I ought to do some similar return evaluations as Will in his last post.
No calculations here, just a shoutout to Will for managing to snag a nearly mint condition Breville Barista Express for a ridiculously good deal… that man knows the art of the steal or something. Anyways, after lugging the machine home from North Etobicoke in one of those large plastic IKEA bags, we set out to perfect our calibration of our grind and extraction settings over the next few months—to bumpy, partial success.
Here’s where I get to piggyback off of Will’s quirky little Marx reference. He, too, was made to do too much labour in the form of sitting on a call with the Breville help center and tampering with our machine with one hand while holding the phone with the other. Miraculously, our espresso has never tasted better since that call—so I guess what this amounts to is Will being the source of most of our brilliant investments. Make of that what you will (his expertise can be booked for as low as $999999/hr).
Breville backstory aside, the drink featured in this post is my take on an iced americano. This creation was borne out of happenstance: I’m not really an americano drinker, and we unexpectedly had coconut water in the fridge. Thus, I cooked up something kooky that also coincidentally tasted a little kooky (in the good way).
Recipe:
Pull two shots of espresso into an espresso glass. Let sit.
Pour around 2-3cm of whipping or heavy cream into a small glass, adding one pump of brown sugar syrup.
Blend the cream and syrup with an electric frother.
Add around 8 oz of chilled coconut water into your serving glass.
If a suspended look is desired, add ice first over the coconut water before pouring the espresso on top.
If you have basic levels of self-respect and decency, pour the espresso to the coconut water before adding ice.
Regardless of your order of operations and degree of sanity in assembling iced drinks, proceed to add the brown sugar cold foam over your drink.
Mix (or not, if you’re at a strawless cafe and suffering) and enjoy!
