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Cowboy Coffee

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Based in Denver, Sean Kenyon is a third-generation bartender and owner of the award-winning bar Williams & Graham and Occidental.
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Sean Kenyon

Crushed beans and Colorado whiskey make this tasty concoction fit for even the most grizzled cattle-driver.

Ingredients

  • 2 Dark roast coffee beans
  • 2 1/2 oz Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey
  • 1/2 oz Demerara syrup*
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • Garnish: lemon peel
  • Garnish: coffee bean

Steps

  1. In a shaker, crush the coffee beans.

  2. Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice.

  3. Shake, and fine strain into a chilled Champagne flute.

  4. Squeeze a lemon peel over the drink and garnish with the peel and an additional coffee bean.