Name: Blue Mountain Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 10 ml Vodka; 10 ml Coffee liqueur; 10 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 45 ml Orange juice

Blue Mountain Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
¹⁄₃ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₃ oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist (discarded) & coffee beans.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Traditionally this cocktail does not include blue curaçao with its name referencing Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and not the colour. Mysteriously, our photo of this cocktail has a distinct blue hue so this led me to adapt the recipe to fit both the image and its name. My original recipe:
1½ shots Bacardi Carta Ocho aged rum
½ shot Ketel One Vodka
½ shot Coffee liqueur
1½ shots Freshly squeezed orange juice

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

BLUE MOUNTAIN
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1-1/2oz dark rum
3/4 oz vodka
3/4 oz Tia Maria
1 oz orange juice
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Blue Mountain Cocktail contains 208 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.61% alc./vol. (16.61° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Anonymous

12th November 2021 at 21:28

I made it with Mr Black, looks like cat vomit but tastes delicious.

Frances Marshall

24th November 2021 at 21:16

Tried again same proportions, smaller quantities (30ml rather 45s) but used triple sec instead of orange juice. Makes me wonder if the phot was done with blue curacao

Alasdair MacDonald

29th May 2021 at 17:29

How does theirs go blue? mine is mud coloured, more a Muddy Peak than a Blue Mountain. Tastes good though.

Simon Difford

30th November 2021 at 22:07

I've just revisited this recipe as the blue hue in the pic has been troubling me. I can't find notes but I suspect I added blue curaçao to accompany the orange juice so I have reformulated recipe to include blue curaçao.

Simon Difford

29th May 2021 at 18:45

I made the original blue/green-tinged drink in the photo but worryingly I've just made it three times with slightly different specs and all three are mud-coloured. I'm using Kahlua and I suspect a different coffee liqueur is needed? Wish I'd left myself better notes! If it wasn't for the photo I'd say Blue Mountain wasn't a reference to the drink's colour but to the Blue Mountains in Jamaica that are noted for coffee.

Sally Morgan

18th December 2020 at 19:48

I had a few clementines so used those as well as an orange and it was absolutely delicious. Would be a fabulous breakfast cocktail for an indulgent treat - not too sweet and just the right amount of caffeine kick.

Anonymous

17th June 2020 at 02:19

Love it. It kind of reminds me of a soft milk toffee. I do wonder why the photo gets a blue color; maybe I was missing something?

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