Introducing: Licor de Café
May we introduce: Licor de Café!
In collaboration with Ale&Bread, we have created this unique coffee liqueur with specialty coffee. You’re wondering which bean we chose? Not just any bean. Our gem Santa Rosa from Honduras – the popular single-origin coffee from an organic women’s cooperative. In addition to the traceability of the product, the quality of the coffee liqueur can be tasted directly, which is why we deliberately used very little sugar.
Wanna try it? Our Licor de Café is now available in all our stores.
How the collab came about
When Jérémy Brönnimann from Ale&Bread, a distillery in the old Aktienmühle in Basel, contacted us and visited our roastery, we were immediately convinced: We’re gonna create an outstanding product with him. We noticed an incredible number of parallels between our passions – roasting coffee and distilling spirits – and between shared activities such as purchasing raw products, refining and serving. In both our professions, we have the entire process of the respective product under control and therefore influence the effect of individual subtleties and nuances that later become noticeable in the glass.
Everything has been made and handcrafted in Switzerland. Between Zurich and Basel.
«Our common goal was to produce a coffee liqueur from our best raw products without any waste – and to let it speak for itself.»
Ivan Pepe, Head of Quality & Education
Back to the Future
Even in the early days of miró, we felt the need to combine our coffee beans with alcohol and make spirits even more interesting in order to put our own fingerprint on cocktails. We started with four coffee cocktails. Unfortunately, we were ahead of our time and our cocktails with specialty coffee sold poorly. Back then.
In the meantime, the Espresso Martini has become widely accepted and has mutated into a bestseller in almost every bar. Coffee liqueur has also become important in conjunction with this cocktail. However, most of these spirits are made with conventional coffees – which means very dark roasted coffee of poor quality and tons of sugar. So our Licor de Café is doing real pioneering work. Dale.
The project to create our own coffee liqueur really took off three years ago with several trials.
«I still have entire Excel lists with samples, flavours and courses of different coffees that we started testing back then.»
Ivan Pepe, Head of Quality & Education
But this is just the beginning.
There are a whole range of other alcoholic products planned with our coffees, such as – SPOILER ALERT – the Coffee Spirit. So stay tuned for more. Cheers.
