Mexican Jumping Bean
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a coupe glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare coffee beans for garnish.
Method
- 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 Garnish with 3 coffee beans floated in a petal formation in the centre of the cocktail's foamy head.
Flavour profile
15.5% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 168 calories
History
This is a hybrid of Dick Bradsell's Espresso Martini and Tommy's Margarita.
This cocktail, possibly known to some as the Mexpresso Martini, likely appeared in London in the mid-2000s. It was popularized when Richard Godwin of The Spirits created and named it the Mexican Jumping Bean. He recounts the origin: "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."
Also known as Mexpresso Martini