J'AIME October 2017

coffee liqueur and wondered if I knew anything
about it,” says Scott.
“We spent a good couple of months developing
different cold brew coffee recipes which would work
to cut through the alcohol, testing different brews,
and we actually stumbled on a recipe which is
brilliant quite quickly.”
Made with the finest single origin beans from Peru,
Scott uses huge amounts of coffee in each batch,
carefully cold brewed over 20 hours to create a rich,
chocolatey coffee taste that holds unique flavours
inherent with the Peruvian region. The cold brew
concentrate is mixed with British wheat spirit and a
little demerara sugar to make a powerful coffee drink
that’s perfect for sipping over ice or as the backbone
to an espresso martini.
“Tom’s taken it to various people in the industry
and we’ve had amazing feedback, which is really
encouraging,” says Scott. “He’s also been to trade
fairs and tasted various cold brew liqueurs which
are already on the market, and ours differs because
it’s not as sweet as any of them. We found that most
of them are overly sweet so we’ve reduced the sugar
content in ours; it’s perfect over ice for sipping and
great in cocktails.”
The first batch of 200 bottles quickly sold out,
and luxury retail behemoth Selfridges are already
interested in stocking the liqueur.
With the success of the coffee, and the interest in
coffee-related products, Scott has an eye on what
might be next in the pipeline.
“I’m also looking at developing a non-alcoholic
version of the cold brew at some point, but for
now all our focus is on promoting the liqueur so it’s
something I’ll look into when I have a bit more time;
there’s not often much of that, what with the coffee,
teaching and being a dad!”
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