Recipe: Coffee Soda #1
Recipe: Coffee Soda #1
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I would like to drink this sooo much. There is actually a drink from the company fritz called caramel coffee coke. It's my favorite coke and i always think it should taste matte like coffee and less like coke.
This guy really goes the extra mile.
James: “Here’s recipe one of many”
Also James: never touches Coffee Soda ever again.
Come in Calabria(italy)and try Brasilena. We use to drink from primary school. Our coke or red bull.
You should put it in the fridge first to make it cold before you drink it.
How do you stop the nucleation?! I’ve filtered a bunch of times. Still tons of bubbles when carbonizing.
Where coffee soda #2? 🙁
The real question is, can he also make toffee pasta?
As I just drank one I asked myself: why didnt he use a cold brew as a base instead of espresso? A carbonated, sweetened cold brew is very close to what I'd imagine a coffee soda to be like. Maybe I'll try that…
For something weird… Use the flowers of acmella oleracea for a carbonated sensation without Co2, as it tingles in your mouth, and it also partly numbs…
The mild acidic tingle, has a slight "vegetable-y" taste to it. If you can find the plants, yay, otherwise- they can be grown almost everywhere..
Time for a new weird funky coffee soda recipe that highlights more adventurous coffees 😁
Am I alone in being disappointed that he drank from the bottle?
Very like
question: why not rinse the filter when straining the espresso?
I made this on a whim using a couple shots of espresso and our soda stream. Came out great. My fiance told me I was weird for making/drinking it, then a few weeks ago we're at a specialty soda/candy store and I buy a bottle of Italian coffee soda, it tastes exactly like what I made and she loved it, lol.
here I am 3 years later, trying to figure this out using a soda stream….I am assuming one would not dilute the recipe until you added the carbonated water . since the soda stream make a tremendous mess when you try to carbonate anything but plain water. guess how i found that out LOL
Weird question. For us heathens who like a little bit of milk in their coffee, would it work to add a small splash of milk/cream right before drinking? Or is the carbonation too off putting with milk added?
Let me get this straight…You are sponsored AND monetized and making me watch ads?
I made something like this, without the salt, but I did it a bit different. I made some lemon flavored carbonated mineral water and had that on the side while I was making some with monk fruit extract for coffee, and added the carbonated mineral water to the coffee. Almost exactly the same, but with a sip of one and a sip of the other. Instead of mixed together. The coffee I used was a coffee that had notes of milk chocolate and blueberries. It goes very well.
If only there was a James Hoffman of sodas on YouTube … hold on a second, what's this video in the search results!!
for anyone recreating this who found the chocolate in the bitters too present, try molasses bitters. equally complimentary flavour but more subtle. definitely stick with lee brothers brand if you can find it. cleanest, deepest aromatics in any bitters ive used
I want to try this but with iron fish bitters instead. That would give it a wonderful traditional aged whiskey-esq flavor making it taste more like a cofee cola. Only problem is its stupid rare, locally made in the UP near where i live but its aged in small batches so it sells out asap. Its like the makers mark of bitters.
Oh, for a not so sweet coffee soda. Coke's attempt might be palatable with, at most, half the sweetness
You can tell he’s so happy to be doing this video, he’s hiding a big fat grin, good for him ❤
Coda
I really liked the recipe, I used carbonated water and very strong filtered coffee, like 15/0gr/lt and stevia sweetener.
Pretty great, "guilty" combination for me: coffee and sprite
I wonder if using normal cream whipper cartridges would allow you to nitrogenate a beverage, much like guinness. One advantage is nitrogenation is less acidic so it doesnt curdle things like carbonation does. Typically I'm pretty sure it uses N2 and not NO but ehh, might work? lol. Carbonation is fun but it's much worse for you than mineral water unfortunately. Technology is catching up though. If you can make something bubbly with a varied suite of chemicals and then offset the ph change with alkali salts you end up with something much more similar to natural bubbly water. One issue with simply pure carbonated water is that it's really hungry for alkali metals like calcium, thats part of the reason drinking soda regularly gives you weak bones and teeth, it literally pulls the calcium ions out of your body. So yknow, maybe go have a glass of milk and a gatorade after drinking carbonated stuff lol
black cardamom is something sometimes added in tiny almost imperceptable amounts to chocolate to kind of enhance the chocolateyness, that might be interesting here
Why not dark caramelised sugar (which gives a bitter taste) instead of the chocolate bitter???
He just reinvented coca cola
One of my favorite things back when it was around was Coca-Cola Blak. I don't remember if it was before or after I discovered it, but I used to just run Coca-Cola through a countertop coffee machine in place of water and just Brew Folgers or whatever with it. It wasn't terrible honestly.
Why?
Nice recipe.
This on a hot day would also hit the spot
Probably would have separated out the espresso in an aeropress with either a thick paper or two papers
I just made myself one of these with my flair following what I remembered out of this video. 18.5g=>40g for the espresso. I did hit the choke problem with the v60 filter. I'm currently wondering if flipping the remaining liquid through a second v60 filter or agitating the coffee in the primary filter would be better for flow. I'm running a cheap 8g/1L soda siphon, and poured the espresso shot through the V60 filter directly into precarbonated water over ice. Using precarbonated water instead of carbonating the water with the espresso cut down the headiness of the coffee soda to none. This could also be due to the level of carbonation produced by my siphon, which isn't particularly fizzy. I'm looking to try to redo this with a more "angry" fizz with a brown sugar simple syrup. If I can get my hands on some bitters I'll recreate this video more accurately, but this was my morning bev for the day and was excited to get right into my first coffee soda.
I thought «what is a coffee sordor» and I looked at the title again xD
"A LITTLE DASH"?!?!
Who are you and what have you done to James Hoffmann?
i wonder what a lacto-fermented cold brew would taste like
Can't wait to see the second soda recipe
Just add course ground coffee to Coke overnight, strain it in the morning and it’s lush! No need to reinvent the wheel with this one; coke is perfect and coffee/coke infusion in the morning is a rocket fuel of delight. Xx
I know this is an old video, and the creators will probably not read this, but I just want to say that this kind of content, when it's knowledge about coffee combined with knowledge that is relevant in all matters concerning taste, is my absolute favourite.
Thank you for this!
If you happen to visit Italy, specifically the region Calabria. Try "Brasilena" which is essentially a Coffee-based soda drink. Oh and I see it's now available online from a few UK retailers. I'd love a review 🙂
"I've got with me, from home, a big CO2 carbonation rig." As if it's the most normal thing in the world to have at home. …Yet the man doesn't have a bottle opener (when the entire point of this was the creation of a *soda*). 😆
Didn’t even make his own chocolate bitters. Lol
Hi James please will you share where you got your CO2 rig? I live in London too but not sure where to buy the tank and regulators. There’s so many options on Amazon a little lost here. Thanks for your videos by the way!
I like to add a tiny bit of sea salt in my coffee and desserts. It just elevates the flavours:)
James Hoffmann's Coffee Soda: (in the video)
my coffee soda: concentrated instant coffee, cheap soda water, some syrup or just white sugar. (may try this one day)
What if I can’t get chocolate bitter?