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Blue Mountain Cocktail
Traditionally this cocktail does not include blue curaçao with its name referencing Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and not the colour. Mysteriously, our...
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.
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.
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.