Name: Brave Cow
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Coffee liqueur

Brave Cow
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

If your coffee liqueur is on the sweet side, then add six drops of vanilla bitters to help the balance and complexity. However, with a good coffee liqueur and dry gin, this two-ingredient cocktail is surprisingly tasty and wonderfully simple.

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Variant:

Black Russian
Brave Bull
White Russian

History:

The Brave Cow emerged during the 1970s/80s on the back of the then popular Black Russian cocktail.

Recipe adapted from John J. Poister's, The New American Bartender's Guide.

BRAVE COW
1½ oz. gin
1½ oz. Kahlua
Lemon peel
Pour gin and coffee liqueur into a chilled Old Fashioned glass with several ice cubes. Twist lemon peel over drink and drop into glass and stir.
John J. Poister, The New American Bartender's Guide, 1999

Nutrition:

One serving of Brave Cow contains 244 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
28.03% alc./vol. (28.03° proof)
25.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Mario Bruno

9th March at 09:53

Thanks a lot.

Morten Carlsbaek

20th August 2024 at 15:38

No no no, use tequilla blanco instead of gin and then taste. I just compared the two and I am in no doubt. The coffee liqueur was Galliano Espresso. Does that cocktail exist? What's the name? Brave Succulent or Brave Cactus?

Matt

9th March at 03:07

I hope you found the recipe for the Brave Bull on the website (and listed in the article above as a variant) - it is very similar to what you propose.