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Coffee Bitters

(recipe, Jacob Grier)

Introduction

Bartender Lance Mayhew and I collaborated on this recipe, which we enjoy in an Old Fashioned with an aged English-style rum.

Ingredients

1. 375 ml 151-proof rum
2. Peel from one medium-sized orange
3. 12 g coffee, coarsely ground with a mortar and pestle
4. Slightly more than 1 gram dried orris root, chopped
5. ½ star anise

Steps

1. Combine all the ingredients in a jar and let steep, tasting daily to check on their progress; four days to a week will probably be enough time.
2. Decant through a fine-mesh strainer and transfer to a bitters bottle.