The idea of coffee being involved here makes sense, but it isn't working for me in execution. Thinking maybe a a barspoon of something like St. George's coffee liqueur in place of the coffee bean might do the trick, perhaps as a float. The grated coffee bean, for me, just feels like someone spilled coffee in an otherwise fairly tasty drink.

Delicious flip. May try without the simple. And: why a lowball rather than coupe?

I liked the ground coffee, but using a standard microplane for this was a pane.  Need something other than my fingers to hold the bean to a fine grinder.  I might try to use my hand-cranked conical burr grinder tuned to the finest setting without the basket in place.

I never would have thought to combine calvados and mezcal, but this works really well! It's sweet with a slight hint of smoke. Thank you for this recipe!

Tasty. I like to drop the maraschino and use a full 1/2 oz of Heering. But that's just me.

Big +1 to using Heering instead of Maraschino. One of my favorite drinks of all time when made this way!

Don't have a Cherry Heering, switching to budget Cherry Brandy - still very good.

Rafa,

Can you clarify the coconut syrup recipe? It's 3 parts of what to 1 part of coconut milk?

Thanks,

Zachary

It seems likely that Maison Premiere's house coconut mix is three parts coconut cream to one part coconut milk, the same as Donna and, I believe, a few other Brooklyn establishments. I've updated accordingly. I'll check with the MP guys later to make sure.