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California Root Beer

Name: California Root Beer
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Vodka; 15 ml Galliano liqueur; 10 ml Coffee liqueur; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 90 ml Soda water

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/3 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1/2 fl oz	Galliano L'Autentico liqueur
1/3 fl oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Sling glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a SLING GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of California Root Beer contains 189 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
11.65% alc./vol. (23.3° proof)
20 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Mark Torre's 1984 The Bartender's Cherry, Second Edition.

California Rootbeer
1 shot Kahlua®/Coffee Liqueur
1 shot Galliano®
Fill with Cola
Collins/Poco Glass
Mark Torre, The Bartender's Cherry, 1984

Review

Does indeed taste like root beer.

Variations/similar cocktails

Bartender's Root Beer

Comments & Discussion

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G. M. Genovese Premium Member 2y

Rubbish. Too much coffee... Best specs are 2:1:1, but it doesn't result in a 'root beer' flavor... In between that and a (Pennsy Dutch) birch beer with touch of vanilla creme. (5 Oct 2023, 5:37a)

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

This was OK. The ingredients mixed tasted more like sarsaparilla as it had the bitter flavour from the coffee liqueur. It worked perfectly as an adult beverage at a picnic. Not memorable, but nice.