have you ever tried making coffee with red wine instead of water? it's got a very powerful aroma and i was tasting it for weeks
what. tell me more
well, first of all the actual ethanol in the wine boils off at like 70C so you're using a low temperature (because obviously the goal is to make alcoholic coffee and you don't want to boil it away)
which means the coffee is HORRIBLY underextracted which normally makes your cup taste like the absolute worst decaf you've ever had
but, see, it's warm, and warm makes things smell more. so you've got this EXTREMELY powerful red wine smell, with pure ethanol vapor entering your nose, and some god-awful underextracted almost-coffee smell all mixing together
you bring that cup to your mouth and the smell is just. it's the first wall you have to get through
actually the second wall. the first wall is realizing that this is probably a bad idea, but doing it anyway
I am fascinated by every word here
@shedog because i read about an old roman person who used to make their coffee with champagne and was talking to a friend like "that doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, but i don't like white wine at all" so it goes "yeah that makes sense" and i continue with "but i do like red wine, we should try to make it this weekend" so i went over to its house and we went out and bought the cheapest (non-boxed) red wine we could find (i do have standards) and it tried to convince me not to but we did it anyway
fine. that makes sense. but now i gotta try it too
a word of warning
if you push through the smell and manage to actually imbibe some of this curséd brew, there will be a voice
in the back of your head
saying
"oh huh this actually doesn't taste that bad"
and the voice is RIGHT, but only temporarily
you have two options, really. let it sit for a bit and really savor that surprisingly nice flavor before swallowing (MISTAKE) or understand that that voice will lead to naught but despair and choke it down before the tonic turns on you because it WILL oh my god it will.
that's not even considering the aftertaste
Hey, safety concern: what you're doing is kind of weird distilling maybe. Alcohol vapor is dangerous, but for one or two cups this probably isn't that bad, but, be aware that you're probably spilling alcohol vapor into your kitchen space and creating a potentially explosive fuel-air mixture
oh yeah definitely. my friend and i are both like, scientists, so we knew the risks and didnt use too much wine and no open flames but this is absolutely worth mentioning, thank you
