Name: Mexican Jumping Bean
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Reposado tequila; 30 ml Espresso coffee (hot); 15 ml Agave syrup

Mexican Jumping Bean
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Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
1 oz	Espresso coffee (freshly brewed & hot)
¹⁄₂ oz	Agave syrup

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare coffee beans for garnish.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with 3 coffee beans floated in a petal formation in the centre of the cocktail's foamy head.

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

The lovechild of Dick Bradsell's Espresso Martini and Tommy's Margarita.

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AKA: Mexpresso Martini

History:

Perhaps better known by some as the Mexpresso Martini, this cocktail likely emerged in the mid-noughties in London. However, it was made famous when created and named the Mexican Jumping Bean by Richard Godwin of The Spirits fame. Here's how he tells the story:

"One afternoon a few years ago, I ran into my friends Cleo and Stewart in a bar near my old work in Kensington. Cleo and Stewart make Aqua Riva tequila for a living and I always had the impression they drank it for a living too - as it is generally impossible to spend more than three minutes in their company without a tray of Tommy's Margaritas arriving. We took up residence at a table. We drank Margaritas. And then some more. And after five or six, I felt the need to mix things up a bit. All that lime juice - I'm sure it was the lime juice - began to have a slightly pixelating affect. So I asked the bartender if he could make a Margarita with fresh espresso in place of the lime. The result was a Mexican take on the Espresso Martini."

Nutrition:

One serving of Mexican Jumping Bean contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
15.48% alc./vol. (15.48° proof)
14.7 grams of pure alcohol

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