Kahlua Recipe

[EricDe]

Edited 06/17/06 - I finished my first two recipes for homemade Kahlua and they taste great!


Does anyone have a good recipe for homemade Kahlua that calls for fresh coffee?

I got turned on to fresh roasted coffee last year by the good folk at CW and I'll never go back. My wife goes through a bottle of kahlua each week. I wanna make my own using my fresh-roasted coffee. I looked for recipes online and they almost all call for instant coffee or coffee powder.

There has to be a good recipe that calls for fresh coffee. Any ideas?

[LabRatGDI]

http://www.liqueurweb.com/coffee.htm

[ZachS]

You're going to want to adapt those and use everclear and h20 mixed in a proportion to give you a higher proof than vodka will. Also consider using 151 rum. That would probably be tasty.

ZachS

[EricDe]

Originally Posted by LabRatGDI

http://www.liqueurweb.com/coffee.htm

Thanks for the link - that is what I was hoping for.

I'll let you all know in two months how it turned out.

Originally Posted by ZachS

You're going to want to adapt those and use everclear and h20 mixed in a proportion to give you a higher proof than vodka will. Also consider using 151 rum. That would probably be tasty.
ZachS

Decent Everclear is hard to get here in California (although maybe I should look a little harder, my favorite cigars are pretty easy to get ). My first batch will be per the recipe. Then I will experiment.

Thank you both for your input. I'll let you know.

Eric

[LabRatGDI]

Originally Posted by ZachS

You're going to want to adapt those and use everclear and h20 mixed in a proportion to give you a higher proof than vodka will. Also consider using 151 rum. That would probably be tasty.

ZachS

I disagree...Kahlua is only around 40 proof in the first place....100 proof vodka would work just fine.

[EricDe]

Alright - I have made some GREAT Kahlua! My March batch had a weak coffee taste. The April batch came out so good. The May batch should be similar to the April batch. It will be ready in a few weeks.

Thanks for those who replied to my earlier request for a recipe. I kinda made my own recipe from those I collected.

Recipe:
1) 1/2 cup Espresso (1/4+ cup fresh roasted beans + 3/4 cup water through my cheap Krupps espresso machine)
2) 1 cup sugar
3) 16 oz Vodka (Smirnoff)
4) 1/2 vanilla bean, slit lengthwise
Mix sugar in warm espresso, then mix together with vodka. Fill empty bottle, add vanilla bean. Seal, wait two months (the hardest part).
Yields 28 oz - just fills an empty Kahlua bottle.

Now that I know the recipe is good, I am going to made bigger batches.

Thanks again!