Cheers to you!
Dago
• PeruBartender Luis Alza of Peru is truly committed to restoring the ecosystem of the cultivable coffee lands in his community, through creative re-use of coffee raw materials around his city and in his Ketel One ‘Dago’ cocktail.
- " To a certain extent, this cocktail reflects a microcosm of my land. I decided to extract the flavours of the coffee native to this region using the Chemex method due to its clarity and precision to the palate. By combining it with the (coffee) mucilage, the coffee skins/husks infusion, and vodka, we get a rounded flavour and a long finish. The garnish consists of a tuile made from the leftovers of filtered coffee and liquefied husks, effectively reusing waste materials along the process. My uncle runs a ""finca"", or coffee estate, where we discovered that these leftovers could fuel
- the only dedicated mechanical coffee dryer we possess. From this experience, we shared this tip with other producers that do not dry their coffee beans under the sun. Additionally, every time I use these unwanted products, I am helping my community by exchanging compost (with a very efficient carbon-to-nitrogen ratio) for these coffee leftovers. Doing this benefits their land as the compost improves the soil and reestablishes it back to life, creating, over the years, a circular economy that aids both the producers and the ecosystem of the land where I was born."
Taste it for yourself.
Dago
Ingredients
Ketel One Vodka 35 ml
Homemade Coffe Blend 70 ml
Chemex (coffee extraction method) 35 ml
Coffe Mucilage 25 ml
Coffe Husks Syrup 10 ml
Garnish:
Tuile made from Coffee husks and coffee flowers
Prep Ingredient Recipe & Method
Garnish Method:
In an excalibur, stretch the paste made from the coffee husks together with those resulting from the coffee extraction method, very thinly.
Dehydrate for approximately 8 hours at 68 °C
In a Mixing Glass add Ketel One and Homemade Coffee Blend, add ice and stir evenly for 35 seconds
Server in a chilled Nick and Nora glass.
Add the tuile on top of the glass and place 2 coffee flowers
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