One of my summer favorites: Iced coffee + orange juice + ginger
The coffee sunrise post earlier reminded me of one of my summer favorites (I just suck at taking pretty pictures but I think you'll get the idea):
a strong coffee (this one is 125ml from an aeropress but a double shot of espresso/lungo also works very well)
about 3-4 medium sized ice cubes (enough to still have ice after pouring the hot coffee)
~120ml orange juice (adjust to taste and/or the size of your cup)
10-20ml of nice spicy ginger juice (if the bottle says "don't drink pure", you got the right stuff)
pour the coffee slowly onto the ice cubes
Wait a bit so it gets nicely chilled.
I like slowly sipping about half of the top layer (it's basically an iced coffee at that point) before stirring and enjoying the final mix
Dunno if there is a name for that recipe, I just combined two stolen ingredient ideas (I saw a youtube video about espresso+orange juice once and a local café had an extremely tasty cold-drip based drink that included ginger)
I swear it's not a joke - I do actually drink this. And the two friends I got to try it at least haven't sued me for poisoning them, so it can't be that bad
lol, good luck, I can already see them grabbing their pitchforks. And if they do let you live, ask them if they have any crazy recipes of their own and share with us ;)
If you want to make this even more monstrous you can try brewing into a cocktail shaker over ice and shaking the crap out of it so you'll get a good couple of inches of froth on top when you add it to the orange juice.
Well the orange juice is certainly the dominant flavor and the coffee adds some nice bitter notes to it. The ginger then brings a nice spicy kick if you like that sort of thing in your food/drinks (I do, obviously)
I'd never have thought of mixing coffee and orange on my own. Same with espresso tonic. But it turns out I like both
Or maybe my brain just suffers (more) damage when the room temperature exceeds 27°C 🤷
Orange juice is one thing that completely ruins the taste of coffee for me. Like if I get served both for breakfast, I have to drink the coffee first, or at least get a good palate cleanse.
Coffee + orange juice is a thing according to MorganDrinksCoffee, and coffee + ginger is a thing in my local cuisine.
I...might try making some variation of this. For science.
I've never been a fan of flavoured coffees (only some kind of creamer and sugar are added at most), and adding two strongly tasting flavours to coffee seems errr....
I was wondering if it was something I missed, but I guess the consensus here isn't in favour of the drink either. xD
Now I would reject this straight away, except that I like cold brew, fresh orange juice, and Topo Chico. It just tastes like fizzy smoky orange and is lovely.
The ginger I can't quite imagine but coffee and orange are more compatible than I could have imagined without trying it.