I was sitting at my kitchen counter tonight faced with a bit of a dilemma. A dilemma in the form of a really bad batch of brandy sitting on my fridge, ever since that night I thought it'd be good to have a drink. It was bad...really quite awful. I'm the type of person who enjoys the "hard" stuff more than a beer, but this was just putrid. I wasn't sure what exactly to do with this brandy; throwing it out would surely be alcohol abuse and yet there was no way I could drink it again. (I'm allowed to make alcohol abuse jokes by the way. It comes with the territory of having a recovering family member- endless supplies of jokes for therapeutic purposes.) I even googled 'What can I do to make shitty brandy taste good?" Seriously. That led me to my ah-ha moment. I caught a comment about someone liking brandy in their coffee, which made me remember just how much I love it when someone spikes MY coffee. So bam! In a cup of coffee the brandy went. I gotta say, while I prefer other liquors in my coffee, it's not half bad. I win!
One of the best spiked coffees I've ever had was not a spiked coffee. It is called the "Lucky Coffee". It's "sambuca negra or sambuca romana in a steamed snifter with espresso beans afloat (to be eaten) & a complimentary coffee". See, they trick you. I love Sambuca, but it knocks me on my ass every time. The coffee came in handy, let me tell you.